While on death row in North Carolina, convicted murderer Wheeler Stokes gets a surprise visitor, one whose twisted path he has crossed in important ways. This is the story of a man and his tortured past, the women he loved and lost, and the lives he destroyed. Most of all, it is the story of human nature at its best and its worst. Few readers will forget Wheeler Stokes; fewer still will forget what brought him to a tragic end - and the people who crossed him and paid the ultimate price.