On the outskirts of Littleton, Mississippi, a black fourteen-year-old they call Peachy Girl is brutally murdered. Hundreds of miles away, attorney Sidney Adamson McCalastar is about to return to Littleton, where she was born the illegitimate daughter of a rich white man and his beautiful black mistress. Now, a girl's doomed life and Sidney's painful past are coming together. For Sidney is being forced to defend Peachy Girl's accused killer -- who...