Though I Walk: A Novel

Everyone in Marble Hill has a theory about what happened to Sam Renfro. Her twin sister came home to find out which of them is lying.

Anna Renfro got out of Marble Hill, Georgia-Meth Hill, if you were being honest-and went to college in Athens. Her twin sister Sam stayed. Then Sam walks out of the Yellow Creek Bar with a stranger in a black cowboy hat and doesn't come back.

Anna drops everything and drives north into the hollows. Her mother is drunk on the couch. Her uncle Brokeback, who cooks meth in a storm shelter and answers to no one, is looking for Sam his own way. The sheriff has a theoryinvolving cartels. The pastor's wife has a casserole, and questions she stops herself from asking.

When Sam's dress turns up on a trail in the Wildlife Management Area, Anna learns that the sister she thought she knew had a whole life she never asked about. And that in this county, the law is one thing and justice is somethingolder.

This is a book about the people we leave behind, and what they owe each other when the law can't settle the bill.

Winner of the 2024 Readers' Favorite Book Award, the 2024 BookFest Award, and the 2024 PenCraft Award. This revised second edition is the definitive text.