Family Saga

County soil scientist Corrine Ambrose is dragged home to Fetterling to put a price on the low field her grandfather drained under a 1947 tenancy, just as her debt-ridden brother tries to sell it for gravel and their mother swears the acre will never leave the family.

Three generations of the Marzullo family bury the dead of Brackwater from a parlor on Verri Street, until a falsified ledger page and a grave holding the wrong woman force cousins Rocco and Sera to reopen the debt their elders buried, at the cost of the business that kept them.