When an oil company approaches Tetumka, Oklahoma, postmistress Thelma Patterson for rights to lease her land, legal technicalities demand she find her husband, Billy Ray Patterson, who walked out on her nearly thirty years earlier.Thelma turns to surrogate niece Chantalene Morrell and local attorney Drew Sanders to see if they can find Billy Ray, presumed dead all these years. That is, until a handsome stranger with an uncanny resemblance to Billy Ray arrives in town. A stunned Thelma takes her wandering husband back, only to confide in Chantalene later that he's not the man she married.Chantalene's narrow escape in a hit-and-run proves something bigger than a missing-persons case is unraveling. . .a fact confirmed when Thelma is kidnapped, a decades-old crime is uncovered and Chantalene is stalked by a killer whose blood lust won't be sated until she's lying cold and dead in a grave. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.