"Refreshingly original writing with a delightfully orchestrated twist. ... Story proves to be a master of the slow reveal...a smartly conceived, beguiling tale that few readers will forget."

-Kirkus Reviews

"[A] haunting story .... Steeped in natural beauty and interpersonal connections...."

-D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"...Jim Story masterfully takes us into the mind of a man...on the run from the skeletons in his past. Get to know him. I did and I'll never forget him."

-Celeste Rita Baker, author of Back, Belly & Side: True Lies and False Tales

"...A ferocious current keeps pulling you along....This is a profound book. And then there is the language, the pure magical brilliance of the language, that brings it all alive."

-Robert Roth, author Health Proxy and Book of Pieces

"...a captivating American odyssey. ...a fast-paced tale of a life lived well under difficult circumstances, a slice of Americana as delicious as your mother's homemade apple pie."

-Jonathan Woods, award-winning author of Bad Juju, A Death in Mexico and Kiss the Devil Goodnight

"The Pacific Northwest comes alive in all its natural splendor.... [a] poignant tale about an enigmatic drifter who ...

discovers no matter how far he travels, his past is waiting in front of him."

-Eva Lesko Natiello, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Box and Following You

"Jim Story again proves to be a master storyteller....."

-Manuel G. Gonzales, author of Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States

"...threads scenes like a Native American necklace, each skillfully worked bead different, yet bound together by a common theme.... [An} engrossing Odyssey through the American Northwest to find the answer."

-Bob Bachner, author of Last Clear Chance, Baby Grand, and Killing Jack Armstrong

"Part mystery, part suspense with a dash of romance, this compelling, poignant, yet ultimately hopeful...."

-Cathie Borrie, author of The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me

"...an engrossing story, cleverly woven-a hero's journey from an embattled youth to a hard-won maturity steeped in sorrow and acceptance."

-Hilary Orbach, author of Transgressions and Other Stories

"In suspenseful, compelling prose, Jim Story presents the tragic journey story of Clayton Poole, .... A brilliant illustration of a moral man's battle with evil and his journey to recall his essential goodness."

-Stephanie Laterza, author of The Psyche Trials

"What a marvelous piece of work-a genuine American saga that sweeps us through history before we know it, and a new take on the legend of the loner in the Great West with one of the most decent heroes in a long time.... thoroughly masculine, but in a positive way. ....Everyman in the way we would want him, and ourselves, to be...."

-Ronald Story (no relation to Jim), author of Jonathan Edwards and the Gospel of Love