Inherent Chaos

Diagnosed as terminally ill, Boone Harrison's final wish is to reunite with a long-lost offspring he had once so callously abandoned. Unable to drive the required thousand-plus miles required for the reunion, he hires Bradley Kane, a man facing down his own demons, to chauffer him down the long, winding trail from eastern Montana to northern Mississippi.

As the three-day odyssey transpires, the older man regales Kane with tales of a tragic family history spanning nearly three centuries, each...