Fractured Horizons Series Part 3

Set in the heat and quiet menace of the Florida Panhandle, Live the Last Day is a Southern noir novel about family, inheritance, and the cost of surviving the truth.

When a long-buried chain of violence resurfaces, the lives of one family collide in ways none of them can escape. Old loyalties are tested, blood ties are strained to the breaking point, and the past, carefully hidden for decades, demands to be answered for. What begins as a reckoning quickly becomes something more dangerous: a question of who deserves to be saved, and who has already lived too long with their sins.

At its heart, Live the Last Day is a story about men shaped by what they were given and what was taken from them. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers are bound together by choices made long before they understood the consequences. As truth replaces denial and love collides with duty, each character is forced to decide whether survival means escape…or finally standing still and facing what’s been waiting.

Dark, intimate, and grounded in a deep sense of place, Live the Last Day blends literary depth with the tension of a crime novel. It explores grief, addiction, moral compromise, and the fragile hope that even at the end of everything, something honest might still be built.

This novel is the final book in a Southern noir trilogy, bringing its story to a close with clarity, restraint, and emotional weight where every debt is paid, and every voice finally heard.