Jarvis King
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In a small southern town, summer fun and boyhood antics are interrupted when an alcoholic father pimps his twelve-year-old daughter out for drugs. When the authorities are slow to act, two friends take vengeance on her abusive dad.
In the quaint southern town of Petal, Mississippi, Joe Ellis Keene is surrounded by a cast of colorful characters. There’s a UFO chasing constable, a wise one-armed gardener, Cap’n Graybeard, a music loving macaw, and the “old farts” at The Country Kitchen, who are determined to keep secret the location of an impending explosives demolition.
School’s out and twelve-year-old Joe Ellis is rollicking through a summer of hilarious adventures with his dog, Sam, and best friend, Jimmy, until a horrible secret shatters childhood illusions. Their friend, Petal, named for their hometown, is being pimped out for drugs by her alcoholic father, Rand Watson. With his secret love for Petal, a manipulative character defect and a penchant for revenge against bullies, Joe Ellis becomes disturbingly obsessed with vengeance. After Watson attempts to kill his beloved Sam, Joe Ellis and Jimmy devise and carry out a vicious plan of retribution which goes terribly wrong. As the boys agonize over possible criminal ramifications for the scheme’s unforeseen outcome, Joe Ellis, confounded by a daughter’s unconditional love for her abusive father, fears that Petal will despise him should she discover the truth of his actions.
Set in 1975, in small-town America, with a rope swing and a swim-hole, Friday nights at the skating rink, trespassing to fish a farmer’s pond, daredevil challenges and Dixie Youth baseball, PETAL: Revenge Is Never Free is sure to delight and entertain readers of all ages.
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About Jarvis and his books
Jarvis is a carpenter, writer and author of two other books: No Road for Cowards, an action, adventure novel and Y'all Ain't Gonna Believe This, a collection of short stories about hunting in Mississippi. He lives with his wife, Cindy, on a small farm in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi.
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