Bury Me Beneath the Twisted Tree - Paperback

by J. E. Teitsworth (Author)

In a dying factory town, desperation is the deadliest drug.

David has spent twenty-two years playing by the rules at the local warehouse to provide a stable life for his wife, Melody, and their young daughter, Cadence. But when corporate executives abruptly shutter the plant, David's existence in rural southeast Iowa is thrown into an economic freefall.

His lifelong, volatile best friend, Ryan, is already spiraling from a broken marriage. Ryan responds to the sudden layoff with absolute chaos-robbing a gas station and faking his own death in a fiery truck crash. Stripped of his old life, Ryan aligns himself with a ruthless local drug dealer named Bob and extends a dangerous illicit lifeline to his desperate friend.

With bills mounting and his marriage unraveling, David is pulled into a shadowy operation pushing pills. As the situation escalates from petty crime to life-and-death choices at the barrel of a gun, David must navigate a treacherous current of toxic loyalty. He is forced to decide exactly how far a good man will go when the American Dream leaves him behind.