An International Bestselling Author
Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialized in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation a�" to be careful of men, and desire a�" are not just Gracea�TMs to learn. Her familya�TMs tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalized in folksongs like a��Knoxville Girla�\x9d and a��Pretty Pollya�\x9d reminding them always to know their place a�" or risk the wages of sin.