Jonis Agee

Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths...

Honey Parrish, a thirty-three-year-old woman at loose ends in the small town of Divinity, has a love affair with Jasper Johnson, the town's only black man, and sets off a series of events that takes the reader back to a mystery in Honey's and the town's past, an unsolved murder fifteen years ago.