From the author of Triflers Need Not Apply comes a deliciously dark novel based on the true story of the Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old American West . . .

The winds shift nervously on the isolated plain, whispering of travellers lost and buried, whispering of witches.

At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the beautiful young medium, Kate Bender and her family. No one knows about their other business, the shortcut to a better life. They're careful. It's only from those who travel alone, and who can easily disappear, that the Benders demand their pound of flesh.

But even a gifted seer like Kate can make a misstep. Now, as the secrets festering beneath the family orchard threaten to bring them all to ruin, the Benders must sharped their craft - or vanish themselves.