Extenuating Circumstances
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For most of their lives, Doug and Gary McCarty have protected each other—and the dark secret they share. They thought they’d succeeded. They were wrong.
When an ex-con resurfaces with a threat to expose the truth, Doug stands to lose everything: his marriage, his career as a defense attorney, and the family he has struggled to hold together.
Meanwhile, his son, Ben, is slipping into a private world of martial arts, handguns, and a dangerous obsession with a female coworker. When that obsession brings him face-to-face with his father’s blackmailer, the brothers are forced to confront the past and make an agonizing decision that, one way or another, will change the McCarty family forever.
Extenuating Circumstances is a gripping and deeply human novel about family loyalty, mental illness, addiction, and the difficult road to redemption.A gripping and deeply human novel about family loyalty, mental illness, addiction, and the difficult road to redemption.
Bill Warrington’s Last Chance
Grand Prize Winner:
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
With a new diagnosis that threatens his most cherished memories, Bill Warrington is determined to patch up his differences with his three children before it’s too late.
But when all three grown siblings greet Bill’s overtures with wary indifference, he improvises a scheme to skip town with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter, April, whose twin ambitions to learn how to drive and to find rock stardom on the West Coast make her his perfect–and willing–abductee.
But Bill’s plan soon veers dangerously off course, leaving April behind the wheel of his beloved Chevy Impala, dealing with situations no fifteen-year-old should face.
In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, Bill Warrington’s Last Chance speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.