"Behind the mountain the sky was lit with the first faint glow neither blue nor gray. Clouds hung there like columns of pale bone. Men filed toward the hole in silence. Together the brothers crossed over the threshold into the dark."
A young couple struggling to survive in an unforgiving world, John and Angeline Black live by working the land and the mines, taking care of each other and his younger brother Daniel.
When Angeline's chance encounter with the lonely and troubled widower David stirs an illicit passion, the crime that follows will change each of their lives forever.
An unforgettable story of desire and loss, suffering and mortality,
Angeline
explores the themes of sin, retribution, and the heart's longing for transcendence.