"Steel Fixx and his cousin Honus Rust are enmeshed in a feud started in their youth in Tennessee and carried with them as they moved west. Hatred pushes each man far past the boundaries of sanity. Then the unthinkable happens: Steel's daughter Molly becomes pregnant and her cousin Jorod Rust is found responsible. Steel forces the couple to marry. When Molly later dies in childbirth due to Jorod's negligence, Fixx takes his daughter's children home with him. But Honus Rust, deranged by hatred and debauchery, will not allow his grandchildren to be taken from him. The feud between the two men will lead to violence and bloodshed as the price of hatred is exacted from both the guilty and the innocent."--Back cover.