Incident at Tibwin Plantation

She asked the questions no one wanted answered. It cost her everything.

Patricia "Patty" Wallace is sixty-six, recently retired, and visiting her daughter's family in Charleston when she begins to notice what others have learned to ignore. Uneasy glances over dinner. Whispered warnings drifting through humid Lowcountry nights. Fractures running beneath the surface of a family holding itself together by silence alone.

Her questions lead to Tibwin Plantation, where a failed business venture con...