Summary

Chapter 1 is told in the past tense from Charley’s third person, limited point of view.

Charley Bordelon and her 11-year-old daughter, Micah, left their home in Los Angeles to move to St. Josephine Parish, Louisiana. Charley inherited her father’s sugarcane business there. After spending the night with her grandmother, Miss Honey, the three left the next morning to drive out to Charley’s sugarcane crop. Miss Honey directed Charley along the route, but as they progressed into the middle of nowhere, Charley regretted not taking a map instead of relying on her elderly grandmother’s memory. Charley feared being late for her first meeting with the property’s manager.

As they made their way down an old trail, Miss Honey assured Charley they were going the right direction. She said they were on the old Indian trail. Micah told her that...