Small of stature but big of heart, psychotherapist Hank Anderson has a gift for helping clients face serious issues and heal life-altering traumas. But this talent intersects with darker truths, an insatiable curiosity and a life-long penchant for personal risk that will soon threaten to violently shatter every aspect of Hank’s life.

Kenny Jensen is just the kind of client that piques Hank’s appetite for intrigue. Referred by Hank’s imposing friend Detective Phil Evans, Kenny is a delivery man and a thief. He readily admits to the crime that led to his recent arrest, and his rambling origin story of family addiction resonates with Anderson’s own history. But at the end of his first session Kenny hints at a more terrifying reality, one that becomes a threat to Hank’s precious daughter, the ex-wife he still pines for, his aging father, and his beloved and beleaguered colleagues. Kenny is the catalyst for Hank’s descent into a world of drugs and death that hides just beneath the surface of his town’s Midwestern calm and conservatism. His compulsion to help Kenny pull himself from the chaos runs Hank full speed into desperate people willing to remove any obstacle – or person – that stands in their path.

Hank is compelled to uncover the truth and guide Kenny to safety, but at what cost to himself and those he loves?

Targeted Age Group:: Adults

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
After four published nonfiction books, it was time for me to write a book that had been brewing in my thoughts for quite some time. In the writing of OD, I had a deep desire to further test my creative skills. I wanted to stretch beyond my comfort zone, developing characters and relationships that blended the known, my many years as a psychotherapist, with the unknown, a level of imagination, danger, and creative tension that is not possible in my nonfiction writing. Drawing from the rural and urban Midwest, where I have lived my entire life, and fictionalizing themes that are at the core of my work: life in the Heartland, an insider's view of addiction and recovery, wonderfully flawed families and friendship, just made sense to me.

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