Kate is ready to put her city-dwelling past behind her when she marries Joe Krause and moves to an Iowa farm. But life on the farm isn't as idyllic as she'd hoped.As Kate struggles to find her place in the small community, she begins to realize that her husband and his family are not who she thought they were.

In the vein of Jennifer McMahon's PROMISE NOT TO TELL, LOVE LIES BLEEDING is a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried.