For Consideration by Prospective Agents: NO ROADS HOME

Jessie Briggs passes out halfway through a barbwire fence, naked, 

and drugged nearly to death. A constable driving the roads of East Texas finds her, and suspects her meth-dealing brother of raping her. Running away to a sister's family struggling through late eighties Dallas, a year later she's driving the truck with a broken musician and rodeo rider on a road trip through dark sex and the rest of Texas. All roads lead back to the country, where her brother’s daughter is no longer safe, and Jessie must break the wheel of the past to stop its backward turn to No Roads Home.

A Literary Debut Novel -

Evocative of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone,
​Larry Brown’s Fay, and
​Jennifer Pashley’s The Scamp.

​Can Jessie Briggs free herself from the country -
​without killing her ​own brother?

What do we gain when we leave our home behind? What power do scars hold on us, and what dark appeal do they embody?
No Roads Home follows a young woman trying to rescue herself in the late 1980's, through the twin pulls of illicit sex and a safe home not quite hers. No Roads Home is a run from the country to the city - ​but also a return.

Interested Agents will receive a Query with pages or full manuscript on request.