James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside, does not want to go home.
Blake High Scho.
She is currently the writing coach at Howard W.
She is a regular contributor to Small Press Book Review and Alternating Current Press and has published numerous book reviews and author interviews.
Her short story "The Pallid Mask" has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her short fiction has appeared in Haunted Waters: From the Depths, The Round-Up, The Gambler Mag, Foliate Oak, Kentucky Review, Vending Machine Press, Nonbinary Review and the anthology Stephen King\'s Contemporary Classics.
She holds a Master\'s degree in Graduate Liberal Studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Post is a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship for creative writing from Davidson College and the Vereen Bell writing award for fiction.
About the Author: Steph Post is the author of two acclaimed novels: A Tree Born Crooked, a semi-finalist for the Big Moose Prize, and Lightwood, the first Judah Cannon novel.
With bullets in the air and the ghosts of heartache, betrayal and unspeakable rage haunting him at every turn, James must decide just how much he is willing to risk to protect his family and find a way home.
A whirlwind road trip across the desolate Florida panhandle ensues as James tries to stay one step ahead of the vengeful Alligator Mafia and keep his brother alive.
When Rabbit is double crossed by his cousin in a robbery-turned-murder, James and a local bartender, the unsettling and alluring Marlena Bell, must come up with a plan to save Rabbit\'s skin.
James is too late for Orville\'s funeral, but just in time to become ensnared in the deadly repercussions of his younger brother Rabbit\'s life of petty crime.
Yet when James receives a postcard from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father\'s death, he bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal Springs, Florida, a place where dreams are Born to die.
James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside, does not want to go home
