The butterfly

A hardboiled noir set in rural West Virginia, where a man's growing obsession with his stepdaughter Kady spirals into something dangerous and taboo. Told in James M. Cain's signature terse, propulsive prose, the story follows Jess Tyler as he becomes entangled with Kady's past and the secrets of the family that surrounds her. The truth behind a mysterious birthmark and the men in Kady's life is only fully revealed in the book's final pages.