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A fiery cross and a cadre of hooded thugs can't scare the Robinson sisters away from their land. The five scrappy women, born and raised in the heart of the Louisiana delta, are not about to quit the farm their ancestors had risked everything to build, rebuild, and preserve.
When Etta May Robinson stumbles over a dead body in their field, a man she knows and fears, the investigation leads to an unexpected reckoning. She has secrets – truths not spoken of in the genteel Southern society of the early 1900s. Etta May and her four unmarried sisters grapple in a man's world where a woman's place is inside the home, not behind a plow. Whether handling a hoe or a shotgun, the Robinsons are prepared to defend their homeland from scoundrels, plagues, and Old Man River. When journalist Penny Robinson, the sisters' niece, returns to the farm to interview them for a human-interest article, she learns more about the women who raised her after her father's tragic accident. Farm life is harsh for the women, and there are many reasons to sell the land and move away. But the more questions Penny asks, digging into the family history, the more reasons she finds to stay and listen to the dirt sing.
