Bury Me Beneath the Twisted Tree (Paperback)

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
  

A Shattered Life

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.

A Dangerous Friend

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.

The Ultimate Stakes

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.