The Kept Author:James Scott Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, in which a mother and her young son embark on a quest to avenge a terrible and violent tragedy that has shattered their secluded family. — In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage... more »: her husband, and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Twelve-year-old Caleb must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search of the men responsible.« less