ex-convicts

When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love life.

In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when, nine years after receiving a life sentence for that crime, Danny Padgitt, son of Clanton's most brutally powerful family, is paroled and jury members start turning up dead.

Ellie Cavanaugh's long-held beliefs are tested when she reinvestigates her sister's murder in an attempt to prove the guilt of the man, recently released, who spent twenty-two years in prison for the crime.

A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.