"The best kind of book. By the time you turn the last page, you're so involved with the characters, you want to know what happened to them afterward"。"The writing is as crisp and evocative as ever, the characterization snappy，and the various plot strands knotted together with an adept hand"。

Until that September of 1952. Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long. hot summer of his seventh year. two groups of migrant workers--and two very dangerous men--came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke"s world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born...and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly.bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him. he unravels secret"s that could shatter lives--and change his family and his town forever……