After a stint in prison, Judah Cannon is determined for a fresh start, but everything spirals out of control when a call from the clan's leader sends Judah back into a world of thievery, brutality and betrayal.


Judah Cannon - middle son of the notorious Cannon crime-family clan - returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida after a stint in prison. He is determined to move forward and live it clean with his childhood best friend and newly discovered love, Ramey Barrow. Hope is on the horizon and a new chapter in Judah's troubled life looks ready to begin.

But everything soon spirals out of control when a phone call from Sherwood - the family's unflinching and uncompromising patriarch - pulls Judah back in, ensnaring both he and Ramey in a complicated web of thievery, brutality and betrayal. Pressured by the unrelenting bonds of blood ties, Judah struggles to do the right thing in a world full of wrongs.

Steph Post graduated from Davidson College as a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship for creative writing and a winner of the Vereen Bell writing award for fiction. She holds a Master's degree in Graduate Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has most recently appeared in Garden & Gun, Nonbinary Review, Saw Palm, Black Lily and the anthology Stephen King's Contemporary Classics. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Rhysling Award and was a semi-finalist for The Big Moose Prize. She lives in Florida with her husband, three dogs and way too many chickens.