Exhausted from trying to balance all the areas of your life? Then you’ll appreciate Roscoe Ransom’s maimed in World War I, a sharecropper, the town sheriff, and the widowed father of his eleven-year-old son, Junior. Oh, and Roscoe is an alcoholic. His angry and numbed life is suddenly upended when a black man in their tiny community is murdered. Junior longs for his father’s love and attention to fill the void left by the death of his mother, but the person who fills that has come to fill that role is the next-door neighbor, Willow Muscadine, a Cherokee Indian woman. Willow sees Junior trying to locate the killer that his drunken father can’t, or won’t, find, and she decides to watch over him and protect him from his own enthusiasm. The more questions Junior asks, the more dangerous the situation becomes for him, Roscoe, and Willow. When the threats turn deadly, will it be enough to shake Roscoe from his misery in time to save them and find redemption? Or will his personal demons once again win until he’s lost everything and everyone who cares about him? Best selling author, David Johnson, has once again produced one of his trademark “books with heart” and spun a tale that will have you rooting for the underdogs and hoping that good will triumph over evil.
Exhausted from trying to balance all the areas of your life? Then you’ll appreciate Roscoe Ransom’s maimed in World War I, a sharecropper, the town sheriff, and the widowed father of his eleven-year-old son, Junior. Oh, and Roscoe is an alcoholic. His angry and numbed life is suddenly upended when a black man in their tiny community is murdered. Junior longs for his father’s love and attention to fill the void left by the death of his mother, but the person who fills that has come to fill that role is the next-door neighbor, Willow Muscadine, a Cherokee Indian woman. Willow sees Junior trying to locate the killer that his drunken father can’t, or won’t, find, and she decides to watch over him and protect him from his own enthusiasm. The more questions Junior asks, the more dangerous the situation becomes for him, Roscoe, and Willow. When the threats turn deadly, will it be enough to shake Roscoe from his misery in time to save them and find redemption? Or will his personal demons once again win until he’s lost everything and everyone who cares about him? Best selling author, David Johnson, has once again produced one of his trademark “books with heart” and spun a tale that will have you rooting for the underdogs and hoping that good will triumph over evil.