A 12-year-old girl named Punky Rose Bagley her friend Sheldon McNamara small town Ravenswood Iowa in the 1960's a mysteriouscar found in the town's quarry a murdered man on the Indian Trail by the river a mother in a mental institution with her mind tipped sideways the girl's guardian Aunt HazLimestone a reprobate from the town living in Florida two mysterious stalkers and Sheriff Conneally... all come together to tell thisintriguing tale of love and evil in this small town Iowa.