<p>The truth of what happened in the hills after sundown comes to light. Yet as the next generation of detectives confront the legacy of bloodshed, one part of the enigma remains buried.</p>

Chapter V: Though Taken in Darkness

When the unimaginable happens not once, but twice, in the same isolated ranching community, its dazed people feel a cloud settling over their towns and backroads. After time passes and questions deepen, a newspaper crime reporter returns home to meet up with a homicide detective and a pair of songwriters to make sense of what took place here. He learns that the shadows of the past bleed into crimes of the present.