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A roughneck, redneck, and
brawler, Jebediah Shaw had a wild streak
wider than a country mile when he left home,
and he was happy to have a war to fight.
Now, battle scarred and weary, he's
returned to the girl of his dreams and the
small East Texas town he calls home.
Jebediah is anxious to start the “real life”
he'd promised himself in the desert of Iraq.
Only the new demands of becoming a college
student, husband, and provider soon prove to
be a heavy burden while trudging away as the
muscle for a local bondsman. It’s a handout
of a job from an old friend.
Even that can't save him.
Running down bail-jumpers and muscling
deadbeat dads isn’t enough. Swarming in
debt, consumed by his failures, staring his
own demons in the face, and drowning in the
widening gulf of despair he's created with
the woman he loves so dearly, he knows he's
going to lose it all. Then someone with too
much money throws him a life preserver. In
exchange for a simple task, one if the few
he’s qualified for, he can be back on his
feet. He takes it without question, knowing
full well it can’t be that simple. Because
in East Texas, a land on the ragged edge of
the Old South, where Gothic mysticism
collides violently with the rugged
individualism of the Old West, nothing is
ever quite what it seems, nothing is ever
easy, and when it rains, it pours.
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