Connor Pierce enlisted in the Air Force to escape his crazy-making family. Twelve years later, even before Connor can plant his estranged father's discarded body in the ground, he concludes that the details of Dixon Pierce's perverted last hours add up to murder. Help from the high school cohorts he abandoned, Deputy Ruiz and alluring ex-lover Jasia, Connor searches for answers-ultimately confronting his own failings as a husband and father. Contemplating the horrifying possibility that one of his own kin killed their dishonorable patriarch, and tripping into lustful abandon with the...