Beneath A Ruthless Sun: A True Story Of Violence, Race, And Justice Lost And Found

"In December 1957, an arctic freeze descends upon the groves of Okahumpka, Fla., and the town’s human hearts prove just as icy as the stone-cold oranges. A well-off woman has been raped, and the black community finds itself under siege by the bigots of the sheriff’s department. The biggest mystery concerns Jesse Daniels, a developmentally disabled white boy who sleeps with a teddy bear every night, and why he gets railroaded for the crime. A ripping, real-life tale, Beneath a Ruthless Sun will plunge the reader into the legal practices, civil rights battles and stubborn sexual inequalities of the mid-20th century."