Frank Overton

"Killer" Mears controls the death house, but the arrival of a new inmate sparks a violent revolt where chaos reigns and survival is not guaranteed.

In a dusty Southern town during the Great Depression, a white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him—except Atticus Finch. Finch's compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two children.

When Eben's father takes a new wife and announces he'll leave the farm to her, passions erupt in a fiery night of lust and fury between Eben and his new stepmother.