A stockbroker in a small southern town who gets involved in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders.

For world-weary Sheriff's deputy Bernadette, this is both her beat and her hometown, and a railroad conglomerate's bid to buy up family homes and land by the acre brings long-simmering tensions bubbling to the surface. When Bernadette's lover Leslie, a public-interest lawyer defending the poor, turns up dead, she must decide whether to walk the line or take on her town's oldest and wealthiest family. Written by JK

An attractive but lonely nurse accepts a blind date setup by a co-worker and arranges for them to meet at her home. A stranger arrives on her porch before the arranged time and she mistakes him for her blind date. The stranger rapes her and leaves her seriously traumatized. Her life falls apart and she enters depression. She learns much later he is in a prison an hour away and begins visiting him, first to confront him and her fears. Then she starts to flirt and her spirits improve dramatically...