James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness
inside, does not want to go home. Yet when James receives a postcard
from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father's death, he
bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal
Springs, Florida, a place where dreams are born to die. James is too
late for Orville's funeral, but just in time to become ensnared in the
deadly repercussions of his younger brother Rabbit's life of petty
crime. When Rabbit is double crossed by his cousin in a
robbery-turned-murder, James and a local bartender, the unsettling and
alluring Marlena Bell, must come up with a plan to save Rabbit's skin. A
whirlwind road trip across the desolate Florida panhandle ensues as
James tries to stay one step ahead of the vengeful Alligator Mafia and
keep his brother alive. With bullets in the air and the ghosts of
heartache, betrayal and unspeakable rage haunting him at every turn,
James must decide just how much he is willing to risk to protect his
family and find a way home.