Switchback - by Kl Griffiths (Paperback)

About the Book

A dysfunctional amputee bicycles across America to avoid a confrontation with his murderer ex-girlfriend.

Book Synopsis

Seth's ex-girlfriend, Ivy, is going to kill him, unless he manages to kill himself first. Living in the woods beside the factory where he works, drinking himself numb, showering at a truck stop, Seth's life is a slow-motion crash. When a forklift accident leaves him an amputee, recovery forces him into the care of a kindhearted embalmer and a girl who rescues stray cats. Their quiet generosity unsettles Seth more than his injury. It suggests he might still have something left to lose.

But Ivy has found him, and nowhere is safe-not for Seth and not for the people who've taken him in. With his settlement check and new prosthesis, Seth hits the road, bicycling across America. Camping. Drinking. Glamping. Drinking. Trying to thrill himself dead...and always looking over his shoulder.

As Ivy closes in, Seth must make a choice he's never made before: stop running, or risk losing the friends who gave him a second chance. To save them, Seth has to confront the one thing he's never outrun-his past, and the night that should have killed him.

A twisty, chilling story about escape, reckoning, and a past that refuses to stay buried.