Bound To Come

Tommy Baird was seven the morning his father walked out. Thirty years later, he's the one they'll ask to explain a dead man in an alley.

Raised on his mother's grit and his uncle's rifle, Tommy built the life his father never gave him: a wife who stayed, a daughter who trusts him, a business built with his own two hands. But some inheritances don't ask permission. When a stranger's careless words about his father crack something open in him, Tommy finds out exactly how thin the line runs between the man he chose to become and the one he swore he'd never be.

What follows is a reckoning thirty years in the making: a trial, a father dying two counties away, and a daughter old enough to ask her own hard questions. Bound to Come is a story about the weight men carry without asking for it, and the harder, quieter choice to carry it different than the one who handed it down.

Inspired by the country song The Gun, by David Nail this is a novel about temper and tenderness, running and staying, and what it costs a man to choose, every single day, to be the one who comes back.