dennis beery

In 1924 the Ku Klux Klan is the dominant political and social force in Indiana. Thirteen-year-old Will Moore, whose father is running against a Klan-backed candidate for the district congressional seat, finds himself increasingly at odds with the Klan kids on his street. But Will and his friends put their differences aside when strange things start happening in the neighborhood: odd flapping sounds heard in the sky at night; a woman with snakes for hair prowling the graveyard; the partially burned body of a Klansman discovered near a stagnant pond. Suspicions fall on Angie Hostetler, widow of a fiery anti-Klan preacher, who has her own memories of the post-Civil War Klan, not to mention bookshelves lined with tales of fantasy and magic, and a triple-padlocked, rune-covered chest in her attic.

Will’s search for the truth behind Angie’s peculiar behavior reveals a murderer - and more truth than he ever bargained for.