In the first volume of a series beginning in the 1950s and ending in the 1980s, Nathan Harris, a 19-year-old farm boy, shares a passionate affair with a 26-year-old black woman in Mississippi which results in the birth of a son.

Revealing the Covenant is a novel full of memorable characters and unforgettable places. New York Times best-selling author Margaret Wander Bonanno described the book as aa] a tightly-written, eminently credible thriller.

This volume is a collection of more than 50 essays and stories first published in the "Madison County Herald" which provide a heartfelt look back at life in the 1970s within a small Mississippi town.