Death at Pine Torch is based on mountain lore passed down to my mother during her younger years in what is now Alabama's Bankhead National Forest. As a child, I was fascinated by these stories, especially the one about a distant relative decapitating a local doctor with a shotgun blast ... it sounded like the Old West to me!Maralene Britt and her daughters, Elena, Lenoir and Clara, courageously struggle to rebuild their lives after a bloody incident...