Deep Kill Road

by JJ Rodgers

After an eleven-year stretch for a robbery gone wrong, Jesse Garner rolls into Beckford searching for nearly a million dollars hidden by his dead cellmate. But this small town isn’t the quiet detour he anticipated. Nancy Novak, the mayor’s wife, rules with a velvet glove over an iron fist. And her side piece, Officer John Hubbell, knows where a few bodies are buried. Their latest target is Marion Poe, a shop owner whose advocacy for LGBTQ youth has provoked escalating threats brought right to Marion’s doorstep. When Jesse is injured in a hit-and-run and trapped in town, a tentative bond forms between two people who’ve learned to survive by keeping their hearts shut. As buildings blaze and Hubbell hunts the convict and the cash, Jesse and Marion are forced to reckon not only with the dangers stalking them, but the possibility of something unexpected. The choice is simple. And dangerous. Jesse can buy his escape or pursue redemption. Meanwhile, Marion must finally face secrets she buried years ago and confront her tormentors without burning down her entire life.

401 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 7, 2026