Married, pregnant, and happy, Ruth Rhodes is confronted by the man who raped her years earlier, and must come clean with herself and her husband while he negotiates the grief and mystery surrounding the murder of his own mother. The rapist, meanwhile, stands atop this narrative, telling his side of the story in diabolically captivating ways.

Richard Wiley is the author of six previous novels including Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for best American fiction. He is a professor of English and the associate director of the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.