The price of redemption is sacrifice, and music leads the way.

There was a time when Billy knew his place in his own little corner of
Alabama, fishing and hauling hay with his Uncle John amidst the rivers and
hollows of Shilo’s Beat.

But this summer is different. Uncle John is gone. And with a bad heart, Aunt
Lucille isn’t far behind. She’d like to leave Billy the farm – but as it turns
out, she doesn’t own it. If Billy wants to hold onto John and Lucille’s legacy –
the land next-door he’s worked and played on nearly all of his sixteen years
he’ll have to track down the man who stole it from them.

A man that no one has seen or heard from in decades.

A man called Wildman Walt.

The Bigfoot of Shilo’s Beat, Wildman Walt has become inseparable from the
folklore that surrounds him. The dirt-poor, backwoods savant who somehow became
the best fiddler to ever walk the southern Appalachians. The fiddler who turned
land-owner. The land-owner who murdered his wife and kids.

But what happened to him?

Is he living in a cave above the Broken Canoe Creek? Is he somewhere in the
forests of middle-of-nowhere Allswell? Billy’s search will take him from
bluegrass festivals to Holiness churches to the faraway expanse of Texas –  to dangers beyond any he’s ever known and
anger that runs generations deep.

Aunt Lucille warns him to stay away. But as determination turns to
desperation, Billy finds himself spiraling down the same tragic paths that sent
Wildman Walt into the wilderness. If he can’t learn to leave well enough alone
– to listen to the people who love him – then he too may never come back.