In Salt Springs, on the Fourth of July, a young man took a bet -- and ended up broken, battered, and fighting for his life. But Billy Piper didn't die. He just came back to haunt Salt Springs -- with all the book learning he did during his convalescence, with all the love he had for a whore, with all the friendship he shared with an old cowboy who couldn't help see the difference between right and wrong . . .
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