Chilling brutalities of a demented killer were hidden from the world for 40 years atop the granite pinnacles of a forbidding mountain range. The demonic rituals of his madness were concealed by the solitary lifestyles of the Appalachian people and the anonymity of his well-selected victims. In a valley of these mountains, two boys grew up sharing the poignant experiences of backwoods youth. Davie Cole and Linn Taylor Halsom were naive witnesses to the dying days of their Appalachian culture, innocently unaware of the devil incarnate in their midst. Their boyhood was the time when the last trains chugged through the mountains, and the daring moonshine ridgerunners risked their lives to defy the "revenoors". - it was also a time when the mountain soul suffered and was driven to near extinction by the march of a ruthless bureaucracy. The dramatic, tragic conclusion to that way of life finally pulls the friends apart - away from their beloved Appalachian Mountains and each other. 15 years later, fate brings them together, once more on the mountaintop, where everything they believed about their tortured lives becomes suddenly disproved in the discovery of an ironic secret that has been kept for decades. And the friends face a life and death struggle to end the long reign of horror in Appalachia.