James Hart with a toughasnails exterior and an aching emptiness inside does not want to go home. Yet when James receives a postcard from his mother Birdie Mae informing him of his fathers death he bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal Springs Florida a place where dreams are born to die. James is too late for Orvilles funeral but just in time to become ensnared in the deadly repercussions of his younger brother Rabbits life of petty crime. When Rabbit is double