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While researching her family history, Wells uncovered a story of the brutal axe murder of four of her relatives and origins of race myths that fueled the savagery of the lynching that followed. Soon after, she found a noose that had sat for a century in an ancestor's old well house. And hiding inside her own DNA, she discovered even more surprising secrets in her past.Her book is about two murder mysteries, two lynchings, and North Carolina's vicious 1898 political campaign'a campaign so charged with racial rhetoric, its fallout still contaminates race relations in the South today.