Breakheart Hill
Thomas H. Cook
"This is the darkest story that I ever heard." So begins Thomas H.
Cook's haunting tale of love, obsession, and destruction, of the price a
whole town pays for a single moment of passionate betrayal. The town was
Choctaw, Alabama. The place was Breakheart Hill. The girl was Kelli
Troy. The violence that rocked Breakheart Hill that summer afternoon did
not end on its wooded slope. At least not for Ben Wade, now the town's
doctor, one of its most revered citizens, and the only man who knows what
really happened on that August afternoon in 1962....
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books