A cheating husband. His faithful wife. His exciting mistress. Two strong mothers.
A talented reporter and the alluring woman who wants him. The scene is set
for murder and astonishing repercussions in the timber country of southwest
Alabama in 1959. John Ed Tomlinson is convicted of killing his wife, then he isn’t. Two
more trials follow, which engulf all five remarkable women, two rival families, and
vulnerable reporter Dan Anderson. One element overshadows everything—Jo Dell
Tomlinson’s first burial place, an abandoned well, her body coated in slimy mud. No
one will forgive that.