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In the summer of 1963, in the rugged heart of Texas Hill Country, three teenage boys roamed wild-pushing boundaries, testing fate, and soaking in the tall tales of weathered old men who'd seen too much. For Thomas, Pete, and Bennett, it was a summer of reckless freedom and fading innocence. But only two of them would grow up to remember it. Fast forward to 1986. Thomas Kessler sits alone in a bar, nursing a cold beer and waiting for Pete-now a driven attorney and haunted by an unsolved double murder that shadows their shared past. Bennett vanished without a trace that same summer, and Thomas carries a truth he's never dared to tell... until now. With time to kill and ghosts pressing in, Thomas drifts back into memory-back to that mysterious stone house littered with old Colts and Winchesters and whispered legends, the foul-mouthed gas station that offered a crude kind of wisdom, and the bluff overlooking a town full of secrets. As past and present collide, the question looms: how much do we really leave behind, and what never truly lets us go?

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Gene Fackler was four years old when his family first moved to Austin in 1950, and with the exception of several short, job-induced departures, he has lived his entire life in Texas.Gene excelled in creative writing from grade school to college and completed two volumes of poetry in the 1970s. Then, in the 1990s, several haunting events that occurred during his teen-aged years forced themselves onto paper, and he began completing chapters on trips to the Chelsea Hotel in New York City and the Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy.Then, after retiring from a long airline career in 2009, he completed the entire narrative while tending his cattle and a teen-aged son on a farm forty miles east of the Texas Hill Country that he grew up in.

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