Dark Southern Fiction Rooted in Blood, Betrayal, and Redemption


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Live the Last Day is a Southern noir novel about family, guilt, and the long shadow of violence that refuses to stay buried. When old secrets surface and debts come due, a fractured family is forced to confront what loyalty really costs and whether redemption is still possible when time has run out.
Set against the humid backroads and quiet towns of the Florida Panhandle, the story follows men shaped by inherited sins, broken promises, and the weight of choices made decades earlier. As truth collides with denial, survival becomes less about escape and more about facing what has always been waiting.
Dark, intimate, and deeply human, Live the Last Day is the powerful conclusion to a Southern noir trilogy where love endures, consequences linger, and the past never lets go quietly.
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