Red Run: A Crime Thriller (The Hart Family Trilogy)

Harlan Hart was sixteen years old the summer of eighty-four when he shot Willow's father. An hour later he was in an interrogation room across from a silver-haired sheriff, with blood on his shirt and no reason to lie. The man he killed was a retired cop. In a place that doesn't like his type, that makes him a dead man walking. The sheriff wants him in a cell. A deputy named Mack Stoval wants him in the ground. When Mack gets him alone on a railroad bridge with a length of rope and a pair of coin-filled gloves, Harlan does the only thing left to do. What follows is a dead-broke, flat-out run across West Texas — freight trains, cheap motels, and every badge in the state looking to finish what started on that bridge. Between them the kids have a stolen truck, a shotgun, and a veterinary kit Willow learned to use on goats. Behind them comes a deputy who can't afford to let them live. And an aging sheriff who's starting to believe two teenagers over his own department. Book 1 of the Hart Family Trilogy — one Texas family, forty years, every fight they never wanted. Each book stands alone.