Rham O. Rowen-a poet from the town of Coppernac, Pennsylvania-gathers anniversary gifts on the way home to his wife in the summer of 1930. At the creak of a door, however, horrors no man should endure crash over him in a sea of anguish. With his world torn inside out by a heartless murder, he must convince himself to do the unthinkable and fulfill his maleficent lover's wishes against his better judgment. No one is safe.