This was not an easy book to write.
The story that follows is fiction; however, it is tightly based on real events that took place in Southern Utah. What happened during that five-day attack in September outside Cedar City was one of the deadliest massacres on US soil prior to September 11th, 2001. Despite this fact, most people are not familiar with the story.
Those who know it are typically the descendants of the ones who perpetuated and hid this heinous crime.
That’s the reason I know this story.
And that’s the reason I’m telling it now.
— Noelle W. Ihli