The Return

For more than fifty years a feud between the Joslin and Blair families has raged. Ill-fated love and an innocent infant become the ultimate victims when Fancy Joslin and her baby daughter are believed killed by Jubal Blair's dogs on the mountain one night. It is the same night that three of Jubal's sons are mysteriously murdered and the fourth, Turner Blair, disappears. Only Jubal survives, yet what is left of his mind is locked inside a body paralyzed by a stroke suffered that same night. Now twenty-five years later, finally in a confrontation that pits father against son, daughter against grandfather, the townsfolk learn what really happened that fateful night at Pulpit Rock.

When schoolteacher Catherine Fane travels to rural Kentucky to fulfill her guardian's last wishes by burying the woman's body near the cabin where she lived years before, she unwittingly stirs a sleepy town into an ugly fervor. Although Catherine wasn't a blood relation, kindly Annie Fane had taken her in after her parents were mysteriously murdered. But the superstitious townsfolk of Camarune used to consider Annie a witch, and they immediately apply the label to Catherine as well, menacing the schoolteacher's plan to stay in the isolated cabin while she tries to make sense of her life. Then she meets Luke DePriest, the area's sexy sheriff, who tries to protect her, all while hunting a thief who's been leaving strange wooden carvings in the place of the goods he steals. When a deranged farmer shoots Catherine in the back, the townsfolk are jolted back to their senses, Luke and Catherine are forced to confront their love for each other, and Catherine finally discovers the long-lost truth of her past.