Amazon.com description: Product Description: When Joseph Usher hired William Garrity as a farmhand, he had no idea their lives would be forever intertwined because of the events of May 26, 1903. This is a true story of love, betrayal, and murder that is studied by criminal law students to this day. The Usher family struggles to survive tragedy, ruin, and a county's hostility, as they try to unravel the mystery of who killed William Garrity. Because his entire family is depending on his strength, Otto Usher, a teenage boy, grows into a man as he takes on the responsibilities of the family farm while his father and stepmother's lives are in jeopardy.