Bury Me Beneath the Twisted Tree (Ebook)

In a dying factory town, desperation is the deadliest drug.

A twenty-two-year career vanishes in a single afternoon. When the local factory shuts its doors, a desperate father is dragged into the rural drug trade to keep his family afloat. A gritty, high-stakes thriller about toxic loyalty and the dark side of the American Dream.

• Genre: Rural Noir / Crime Thriller
• Setting: Southeast Iowa
• Themes: Economic collapse, family survival, toxic friendship
  

David has spent twenty-two years playing by the rules at the local warehouse to provide a stable life for his wife and young daughter. But when corporate executives abruptly shutter the plant, his quiet existence in rural southeast Iowa is thrown into an economic freefall.

His volatile lifelong friend, Ryan, responds to the sudden layoff with absolute chaos. After robbing a gas station and faking his own death in a fiery truck crash, Ryan aligns himself with a ruthless local drug dealer named Bob. Stripped of his old life, Ryan extends a dangerous, illicit lifeline to his desperate friend.

With bills mounting and his marriage unraveling, David is pulled into a shadowy operation pushing pills and meth. As the situation escalates from petty crime to life-and-death choices at the barrel of a gun, David must navigate a treacherous current of toxic loyalty. He is forced to decide exactly how far a good man will go when the rules no longer apply.