Can vengeance wipe away the dark shadows of the past?
Two corpses- one suicide, the other murder- emerge through the Long Lake ice ten years apart yet linked by a St. Louis bootlegger' s killing three decades earlier. Those dramatic events frame twelve-year-old A.J. Nowak' s search for identity after being orphaned by World War II and its long shadow. He struggles to overcome dark family history, his explosive anger, his bootlegger and loan shark father' s D-Day death, and his widowed mother' s desperate self-destruction to safeguard A.J.' s legacy from a blackmailer. Ultimately, A.J. faces a self-defining decision: whether to avenge her death by his own hand.
