The Toll begins in Staywater, Georgia in the garden of Daisy Spratford and her cousin Claire at a house named Hazelhurst. They are strange old birds. Daisy with her gardening spade intermittently stabbing insects or maybe voles or mice along with the garden soil. Claire with her unceasing knitting. Daisy and Claire are godmothers to Cameron Spratford, a bored seventeen year old who is used to the complexities and strangeness of his godmothers. We then jump to an unhappy couple on a swamp seeing honeymoon, when something strange occurs and the wife disappears.

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