Eli Caplin and Desmond Farrow, brothers in all but blood, spent their childhood in the blistering heat of a small town in Arizona. Taken in by the town's local war hero, Timothy Harroway, the two boys--along with Timothy's granddaughter, Analiese--spend a number of innocent years together before their world is shattered.
As cancer eats away at Timothy Harroway's life, the boys find themselves in a crisis that forces them from home, on the run from a single, wraith-like memory and an ever-growing legion of sins. Irrevocably tied to Analiese's safety and love, Eli and Desmond are thrust back into their childhood nightmares in a story of bonds, brothers, and misguided redemption.