<div>As the sequel to <i>Morkan’s Quarry</i>, <i>The Teeth of the Souls</i> tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching.<br>The story begins just after the Civil War when Leighton Shea Morkan, son of Irish immigrants, marries Patricia Grünhaagen Weitzer, daughter of a German banking family. Yet he can’t let go of his childhood love and wartime confidante, the house hand and former slave, Judith. Both unions produce children, one a shrouded secret, and one the heir to the Morkan legacy: the limestone quarries of Springfield, Missouri, and the bloody past, what Judith calls “The Teeth of the Souls.”<br><br>Grounded in broad historical research and spanning Missouri’s reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace,<i>The Teeth of the Soul</i>s chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains—Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African American—into the fabric of the Ozarks.</div>