Subtitle from cover.

Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, arrive in the town of Whitbrow, Georgia where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate - - the Savoyard Plantation - - and the horrors that occurred there. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm there is a dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presense that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still stand. Where a long-smoldering debt of blood has never been forgotten . . . where it has been waiting for Frank Nichols - - From the book jacket.