This is the story of the Edwards family from the drought-ridden days of the Depression era to the present. It chronicles the vagaries of circumstance visited upon the family members and follows them from the isolation and tranquility of the Circle E Ranch nestled beside the Salt Fork of the Red River in the Texas panhandle to Prairie Hill, an affluent suburb of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The unexplained death of William Edwards becomes a singular event that remains unsolved and unresolved.