Whiskey River: A Recovery Novel

This is a work of fiction. Jake Calloway never lived. The bars are invented, the towns are borrowed, and every person in these pages is made up — but the rooms are real. I have sat in them: the church basement with the radiators knocking, the folding chairs in a circle, the parking lot after a meeting where the real talking happens. Over 40 chapters, Jake's story moves from the barstool to the bottom to the long way back — about what breaks, what holds, and what it takes to come back. A novel of addiction and return, told straight, no varnish. Some roads back are walked one honest mile at a time.