Set in rural Minnesota in 1938, Tom Hall is expecting to retrieve his brother's murdered body, but steps into a wintry intrigue and a series of brutal deaths that will end with one last act of retribution and justice This is a historically based narrative without a specific hero. It is a story describing the prejudices affecting an entire community, from laborers and farmers to merchants and Native Americans, to lovers and law enforcement. Readeres will find moments of tender young love, uncontrolled lust and vilent murder taking place in a deadly winter.