Crystal Falls

"When it came right down to it, I was surprised to discover it really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be to kill Jesse Ray Hawkins."

So admits sensitive outcast, Nate "Preacher" LaPointe.

That the exuberant and charismatic Jesse Ray was a prominent local drug dealer is bad enough, but the fact that he was Preacher's best friend make the crime nearly unfathomable.

Careening down a rutted back road to Hell, Preacher and Jenny Ruthann, the girl both he and Jesse loved, are pursued on all sides by Jesse's sadistic family, a cadre of violent gangsters, a vengeful ghost, and a corrupt deputy sheriff named Junior, who may be the most dangerous foe of all.