Dying cost nothing and could be done alone; otherwise, Randall Stargill might have lived forever . . .
Randall Stargill's four sons have gathered at their mountain farm to build a coffin for their dying father, to come to terms with their unhappy family's past and to decide whether to keep or sell the farm the Stargills have owned since the 1790s.
But for Nora Bonesteel, Randall's sweetheart of long ago, his imminent death poses another problem: the small box that must be buried with Randall. A box that contains the bones of a small child.
Mystery, history, action and abstraction, suspense and sociology, all bound together in 'The Rosewood Casket'.