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After surviving a disastrous western expedition, scholar Ethan Kane is violently rerouted by his ruthless patron, Julien Devereaux. New orders, fueled by obsession, send him into the sacred Cherokee Nation in Tennessee (c. 1820-21) on a perilous quest for the "Solakari Heartstone." Amidst rising tensions and the shadow of Indian Removal, Ethan and Captain Rourke's party find a sacred mound desecrated and revered elder Yonaguska vanished. Suspicion points to the sinister U.S. Major Elias Thorne.

They were young, popular, the perfect couple. But the youthful passion that led them to Lookout Park that terrible evening would prove fatal. For Richie Walters the end came swiftly, as death descended upon him in a savage orgy of violence. Elaine Murray would live long enough to learn just how lucky her boyfriend had been. Two brutal slayings have rocked a stunned city. But the murders are merely the nightmare’s beginning, flinging open a terrifying Pandora’s box of sordid secrets.

Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better - after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the best-selling novel by CJ Sansom.