Prodigal: A Novel

It’s the Fourth of July, 2000. In a small Southern town, fireworks light the sky above the City Park, while down the street, a smaller flash of light changes everything for 19-year-old Connor Burdette. He has just lost the girl he loves.

Now, buying beer at the Back Home Market, he becomes an accomplice to a shooting. Out of desperation, he runs. It will take ten years and a death to bring him back.

But it’s so hard to come home. The town still blames him for his part in the convenience st...