Sacred Dust

Rose had cried out to the man on the boat, tried to warn him the night he was shot for fishing where he wasn't welcome. Then she retreated into silence--and guilt. It was Lily, the outsider whose infidelities titillated Prince George County, who pushed Rose to break the code of silence that imprisoned them all. For both women knew that a man was killed in Prince George County for the color of his skin--and the time for change had come.