Manor Books, New York, 1979, 1^st, Paperback Original.  ISBN 0-532-23161-3.  MMPB, 189 pages.  Wraps show some edge, corner, spine end and cover wear, tiny corner bends, light scrapes/impressions.  Binding sound with a roll; crease on rear wrap, reading creases on spine and along front spine edge.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘When Beth Davis returned to the small Iowa town where she had been raised, she hoped to provide her Chicago-bred youngsters with the stable environment she had known as a child.  She soon discovered that she had plunged them into a sea of terror that came out of a past that had not been as idyllic as she thought it had been.  After her own daughter tried to burn her to death, Beth embarked on a journey through her family’s past.  She learned that her great, great, great grandfather murdered a twelve year old slave girl near the house where she then lived.  She also learned tht (sic) down the generations every one of her ancestors had died in unusual ways.’ (from rear wrap)