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For Bekkah, growing up on Kali Oka Road deep in rural Mississippi, the summer of 1963 is a sunlit time of lazy, playful days, and friends scaring each other with tales of the mysterious child murder that happened ten years before at Cry Baby Creek. But playfulness abruptly cease when Kali Oka is invaded by strangers...and her best friend's baby sister is stolen. A menacing, secretive religious cult, rumored to be involved in baby selling, snake handling, and brainwashing, moves into the abandoned church at the end of the road. And occupying the old McInnis place is Nadine Andrews, a single woman with bleached blonde hair, a mysterious past, nine horses, and a penchant for young boys. Set during a marvelously rendered Mississippi summer, Carolyn Haines' lush, authentic novel about the passage from innocence into adulthood crackles with all the electricity and passion of a hot August night in the Deep South.
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