Pay Dirt Road

Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. After Annie is lured into the family business - a private investigation firm - by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, a waitress goes missing. Annie and Leroy begin an investigation that leads them down rural routes and haunted byways, to noxious-smelling oil fields and to the glowing neon of local honky-tonks. As Annie works to uncover the truth she finds herself identifying with the victim in increasing, unsettling ways. Print run 40,000.