Anna Tilner transcended the hatreds and violence of her native rural Alabama to become a brilliant attorney with the storied Boston law firm, Tilner and Associates. Now in 1938, she must return, drawn into a horrifying secret directed by one of the nation's most powerful and disturbed men. To uncover and end his machine of vast human suffering, she must rely on the extraordinary gifts of an unlikely partner, Eva Hauser, a twenty-two-year-old black...