Norman Bennett

When an ex-convict returns to his Mississippi river home to meet his teenage daughter, whom he hasn't seen since infancy, he finds himself with more than a handful...and his life is complicated by threats he receives from his underhanded parole officer.

After rudderless 26-year-old Ellie learns that her estranged, alcoholic father has died, her world is disrupted and she begins a journey that takes her to small-town Texas, where she finds direction, family, and friendship in this most unexpected place.