Today is publication day for SMFS list member C. W. Blackwell’s new book, Hard Mountain Clay. Published by Shotgun Honey, the read is available from Amazon and other vendors.
Publisher Description:
Siblings Ben and Maisy find they have no
one to turn to after witnessing a gruesome hit-and-run that shatters their
innocence. Not their mother, a poor waitress with a spiraling heroin
addiction—and certainly not her new boyfriend, a brutal, meth-smoking tow truck
driver named Lou Holt. When Lou’s cover-up slowly turns their backyard into a
makeshift cemetery, they devise plans to escape their chaotic home in the Santa
Cruz Mountains, only to see their lives sink to even darker depths.
In this rural town buried deep under
redwood needles and mountain fog, a dangerous cast of characters never seems
too far away. There’s Cowboy, a fast-talking enabler of Lou’s petty schemes;
and MacLeod, a pock-faced proprietor of an off-the-books wrecking yard who
utilizes child labor to disassemble his stolen cars. But everything changes
when Don Halbert—a persistent school administrator with a keen eye for
trouble—starts advocating for Ben and Maisy’s welfare. The outcome will break
your heart.
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