Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife Eudora have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow where Frank hopes to write a history of his familys old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there At first the quaint rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations A presence that demands sacrifice It comes from the shadowy woods across the river where the ruins of Savoyard still stand Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nicholss homecoming
