NO ROAD BACK

London, 1820. Eighteen-year-old Edward Henry has done the one thing his father will never forgive.

He left.

Paul French owns a piece of London most men walk through without knowing whose it is — and he does not let his debts, his fear, or his own blood walk out of the book on their own. So when Edward crosses the Atlantic with a knife scar under his ribs and his grandfather's counsel in his head, he knows the truth of it: his father's arm is long, and patient, and it does not tire.

From a Norfolk waterfront to the Cumberland Gap, from a keelboat on the Ohio to the raw commerce of St. Louis, Edward runs west — the one direction with no bottom to the page. He runs with a Cherokee named Atsila, who reads the country the way Edward reads a ledger, and together they learn the hard arithmetic of a continent that will not let a man keep the world at arm's length.

A man who keeps a clean account can find a place at any table in the world. But how far, Edward has to learn, is far enough.

No Road Back is the first novel in a sweeping frontier series. New reader? Start here.