Audio Book Description:
In the town of Elm Harbor, a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town`s past, the secrets of aprominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence. And at the center: Lemaster Carlyle, the university president,and his wife, Julia Carlyle, a deputy dean at the divinity school-African Americans living in "the heart of whiteness." Lemaster is an old friendof the president of the United States. Julia was the murdered man`s lover years ago. The meeting point of these connections forms the core of a mysterythat deepens even as Julia closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind the murder.
