Keith Rommel

Florida, middle 1800s. Mary, a freed midwife, has purchased her independence at a steep cost. Hoping to begin anew in Wauchula, she soon discovers that freedom does not guarantee dignity in a world still bound by prejudice and cruelty.

In the shadowed windows of a grand historic home overlooking the Indian River Lagoon in Fort Pierce, Florida, the apparition of a grieving woman materializes—eternally gazing across the restless waters, waiting for her husband and son who vanished on a doomed fishing trip, never to return.

Hunger will bring anything to the surface.... The Eskimo people of Greenland have grown tired of the damage being done to their country. Global warming from emissions that stem from the shipping lanes that run between Canada and Greenland has made people that live close to the coast sick. Cancer...

Back in the 1970s, a series of bizarre incidents occurred at what has since been known as "The Devil Tree". Beneath this ancient denizen, evil was wrought by a sick serial killer, calling upon forces most evil and dark....