OUT OF THE DARKNESS. INTO THE FIRE...

Stump Logan is a dead man. Or so the FBI says. But after a manhunt drove the fugitive deep into the Appalachian wilderness, he is coming back to life, setting out on the journey that began thirty-five years earlier - when a spark of hatred was lit in his soul. Now Logan wants one thing only: to kill Mary Crow....

When her goddaughter vanishes at a Cherokee gathering in Tennessee, Mary is certain: The nightmare is beginning again. Following clues left along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Mary must hunt the man who is hunting her. But as lives crack and crumble around her, Mary will soon face a man's fathomless hatred, a violent mystery in her family's past, and the knowledge that other people have already died - so that now it can be her turn...