Scorched Earth - Poche

In a small town in Virginia, the temperature keeps rising. There's been no rain in weeks, and the whole place is a tinderbox just waiting to explode. All it will take is a spark to ignite the rage and hatred that are so carefully kept hidden. And then, in the midst of the terrible heat, a tragedy occurs. A baby is born and dies in her mother's arms. The child, Nora Carol, is buried quickly and quietly the next day in a church graveyard. It should have ended right there, but it didn't - for Nora Carol is of mixed race. The white deacons of the church, trying to protect the centuries-old traditions of their cemetery, have the body exhumed. That night the church is set ablaze, and the sole witness is the only suspect - Nora Carol's father...