Summary
In the shadow of a violent transgression, Ken Thornton finds himself unmoored from his social strata when his sister, Sally McTurk, is left widowed by a brutal homicide. To shield himself from the fallout and the erroneous gaze of the law, Thornton retreats into the jagged isolation of a remote mountain enclave. Adopting a pseudonym to mask his lineage, he is granted sanctuary by the Harpers, a family whose pastoral existence belies the simmering tensions of the high country. As he integrates into this insular society, a burgeoning romance ignites between him and Dorothy Harper, the family's luminous daughter. However, this idyllic facade is swiftly threatened by a local antagonist whose possessive obsession with Dorothy morphs into a lethal vendetta. Surviving an assassination attempt, Thornton must navigate the treacherous intersection of his fabricated present and the inexorable pull of his dark history, culminating in a visceral confrontation where the 'roof tree' of his new life risks collapse under the weight of past sins.
Synopsis
When Sally McTurk's husband is murdered, her brother Ken Thornton goes into hiding and winds up in a small mountain community, using a phony name. He's taken in by a local family, the Harpers. A mutual attraction soon develops between Thornton and the family's daughter, Dorothy, but a local bully who has designs of his own on Dorothy sets out to have Ken killed. He survives the attempt, but his past comes back to haunt him.
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