Genesis Two

A narrow winding lane and a scattering of stone cottages, somewhere in the heart of the Cumberland mountains. That was Kirdale. A ghost village now, with only a handful of people still remaining — the few diehards who were determined to live on in their homes until the very last moment, until the mountains were blasted apart and the valley became filled with the water of the new reservoir. They were an oddly assorted group: the gentle, kindly old couple; the over-officious ex-army major and his son and daughter; the sultry beauty and her swarthy, quick-tempered lover. Seven isolated and…