Inroads

Rebecca Grant is no stranger to loss and grief. For twenty years, she has practiced as a funeral director in the small Texas town of Sparrows Cove. Two years ago, tragedy and loss became intensely personal. Rebecca¿s teenage daughter Callie was killed in a convenience store robbery. The shooter died at the scene. His accomplice faces execution on death row. Rebecca is learning to live around the excruciating loss of her daughter, but she will never forgive her stepdaughter Nichole...
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Rebecca Grant is no stranger to loss and grief. For twenty years, she has practiced as a funeral director in the small Texas town of Sparrows Cove. Two years ago, tragedy and loss became intensely personal. Rebecca¿s teenage daughter Callie was killed in a convenience store robbery. The shooter died at the scene. His accomplice faces execution on death row. Rebecca is learning to live around the excruciating loss of her daughter, but she will never forgive her stepdaughter Nichole whose reckless decisions cost innocent Callie her life. Mac McKeon is a successful Austin businessman, a real estate broker specializing in ranch sales. His wife Catherine, a woman of influence, is considering a run for governor. Among Mac¿s recent clients is a couple who is more than eager to sell their ranch. Emma and Lester Donovan are desperate ¿ for cash and for justice. Their son Jude is on death row, wrongly convicted in the murder of Callie Shane. But Emma and Lester Donovan are not the only desperate parents. Callie¿s father is a tortured man, consumed by grief. Substance abuse fuels Russell Shane¿s desperation and stokes his rage at anyone attempting to delay the execution of Jude Donovan or anyone with the power to stay it. Rebecca suspects that her stepdaughter lied about the night Callie was killed. Now evidence suggests that Nichole and her friends perpetrated a monstrous lie, sending an innocent man to death row. As Rebecca seeks to unearth the truth, Russell Shane¿s obsession takes aim. Mac McKeon¿s family is placed squarely in his crosshairs.