In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain. Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.?But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler share a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. One that now threatens to rise to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.