That Bright Land The Jane Butel Library While beyond the gaze of

While beyond the gaze of federal agents

A person walks in life on a very narrow bridge

and great-grandmothers

Whether you're a serious athlete

Otis makes it his mission to help Henry and Jane find the real killer

That Bright Land The Jane Butel Library While beyond the gaze ofWinner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Prize. A new Southern gothic thriller from the winner of the 2012 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. In the Summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find the serial killer responsible for the deaths