"In the small community of Millers Kill, gossip spreads like wildfire. So when Russ Van Alstyne's wife kicks him out of the house, he figures it's nobody's business but his own - until a neighbor stops by and finds Mrs. Van Alstyne's butchered corpse on the Kitchen floor. To the townspeople and church folk, the murder is proof that the whispered rumors about the police chief and the priest were true. But nothing is as it seems in Millers Kill, where betrayal twists old friendships - and evil waits inside quaint white clapboard farmhouses."--from back cover.