WARNING: This book contains graphic material, which some readers might find disturbing.

Hampton, Ohio. 1998.

Raised by his single mother, who had a split personality and was addicted to drugs, Billy Hall lived in a world of instability. One moment his mother behaved like an angel. Caring. Attentive. Devoted to making Billy’s life stable, and comfortable. Then, without warning, his mom’s insecure personality would take over and she would become irritable, angry at practically everything.

With that knowledge in mind, Billy should have known better than to test fate. Yes! Even at the acutely naive age of ten, he never should have told his mother what had happened between him and Nancy Sutcliffe, in her ice cream truck, on that ‘Dead End’ street near the woods. By revealing what would turn out to be, on Nancy’s part, an unspeakably shameful act, Billy had unknowingly invited, into his life, a terrifying consequence, better known as murder.