Jackson Journal reporter Alan Scott is ready to give up on his career. That is, until he is sent on assignment to cover a mysterious body found inside a thirty-year-old car pulled from a Mississippi lake. There he meets Bob Gray, a strange little man with a dark secret, and Andrew Moses, an elderly black farmer who remembers a time when people were killed for simply being the wrong color.Now someone is willing to go to great lenghts, including murder, to keep him from writing the story. It's a tale that weaves its way from the dark waters of Stonewall County to the whitewashed walls of the Mississippi Governor's Mansion.