"Zell Dorsey was the Devil. Not even a man as kind as you stands a chance you when the Devil sets you in his sights."
In the small coal-mining town of Jubilee, West Virginia, Phinnie "Skinny" Caldwell has spent thirteen years haunted by the day her mama ran off to the desert with a mysterious man named Zell Dorsey. Taken in by her iron-willed grandmother, the two mourn their shared loss and Skinny learns to brace herself for just about anything―except Zell's return.