
Seven-year-old Tobia Caldwell is the last in a line of proud, Southern aristocrats. As his parents struggle to oust neighbors from what was once Caldwell land, Tobia fights to keep intruders away from what he considers his creek. So when boy-and-girl twins Ben and Merritt move...

From a bold new Southern voice, a graceful and provocative love story born of guilt and atonement. One day, seven-year-old Tobia Caldwell-the last in a line of proud, if declining, Southern aristocrats-discovers a cottonmouth snake in a creek on the family's shrinking estate...