"From the opening page, Daren Dean propels the reader into his story and
never taps the brakes as his characters move toward an inevitable
reckoning. Dannie Gail Posey is the novel’s young heroine, and we cheer
her on as she navigates a violent world that seeks to entrap her even as
she dreams of escaping it. Roads confirms Daren Dean as an important
new voice in rural noir."

--Ron Rash, Author of The Caretaker, Serena, In The Valley, The World Made Straight, and others