The Williams women don’t just keep secrets… They bury them. Just days before her eightieth birthday,Pearl Williams has the gall to up and die on everyone. Now her granddaughters must make plans for a proper send-off…all while their own lives unravel a little more each day. Tarathe pastor’s wifemakes a series of decisions that could scatter his flock. Then there’s Junewho would do anything to have a baby of her owneven if her husband won’t. Clementinethe youngestis entangled in an affair with her professordesperate to ignore who he really is. Finallythere’s Stephaniethe sister-in-law–an outsider who knows all the family dirt. But Gran won’t be the only one they’ll put in a grave this weekend…because now someone has gone missing in the dark Appalachian woods. And if Gran has taught them anythingit’s how to get rid of a good-for-nothin’ man…