In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? Now more than a century later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to find out. This meticulously crafted novel, written and read by best selling author Sharyn McCrumb, weaves past and present, truth and fiction, folklore and legend to bring the murderer to justice.