The Waltz of Devil's Creek

Judith Campbell is dying, and she does not want to take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994, Judith tells her son, Thomas, the tragic story of his conception, and which of two men his real father could be: the young man who professed his love to her, or the pastor who raped her. Set in the Deep South in 1947, The Waltz of Devil’s Creek digs into the dark crevices of racism and women’s rights during a heated political climate in an era of segregation. This combined with Judith’s lack of social stature, and a time when reporting sexual assault was unheard of, every injustice is stacked against her from the very beginning. But there is a light in Judith’s young life: her best friend since childhood, Joseph Bird, who stands up for her when no one else will and proves that even in the darkest of times, a light is always burning.