Ruthless, indestructible as the Ridge that sheers above his house, Russ Walls can't even write a letter "without putting the whole weight of his fist behind it." Here's the story of that fist - of its hold over his family and his town - and of his children's revolt, one by one, against his tyranny ... a revolt as exciting and desperate as an melodrama.
Russ' three eldest children are like him - powerful and stubborn. But none is his match alone...