Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he's going back to where he began--blewer county, Texas. Born deaf, lately widowed, a...Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he's going back to where he began--blewer county, Texas. Born deaf, lately widowed, anna corbett fights to keep the ranch that is her son's birthright, unaware that she is at the center Of Herbold's horrific scheme--and that her world of self-imposed isolation is about to explode.