After a family dispute turns violent, seventeen-year-old John Sharpe flees, convinced he just murdered his own father. Wounded in his ill-fated police getaway, John disappears into the East Texas backwoods, hoping to evade the law and his own guilt.
Life in the backwoods proves treacherous for John. Monsters from his childhood lurk between the trees, as do mysterious women with dark, half-hidden secrets. Even as John hones his slowly-developing survival skills, a familiar force manipulates the young fugitive's life from a distance. And John's attempts to avoid the law become ever more problematic, with the local sheriff having a habit of showing up at the worst possible times.
With a newfound gun at his side and the conviction everything's going wrong, John believes he's become a killer with nothing to lose. In truth, he's no murderer yet, but unless he realizes this, he could soon become one.
A finalist in the Unified Literary Contest and quarter-finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Brannon Perkison's debut novel is an exciting, provocative road trip with reconciliation-or murder-at journey's end.