The 900-Foot Line

Clay Rader would sooner drown than let the government take his land—but the TVA dam is closing in forty days, and everything below nine hundred feet will be underwater by Easter. Four generations of Rader sweat soaks the river bottom of Carter Bend, Tennessee, and two of Clay's children lie buried in the churchyard. When his wife Eula demands they move their drowned daughter's grave by family hands, she cracks open a silence that has poisoned the household for three years—and unearths a secret that could shatter what little remains of them all.