The Last Ferryman of Willow Creek
A Novel

About this book:

For forty years, Alistair Finch has been the only bridge across Willow Creek—hands on the oar, eyes on the current, the rhythm of the crossing etched into his bones. Now the concrete piers of a new highway span rise like ribs from the water, and the *Mary Ann* is slated for the scrap heap. But the river doesn't give up its dead that easily. When a local handyman digs up a rusted box of letters beneath the old tollhouse—letters linking the county's founding families to the mayor's own lineage—Alistair realizes the bridge isn't just ending his career. It's sealing a secret the town has kept submerged for generations.

Atmospheric and taut with quiet menace, *The Last Ferryman of Willow Creek* is a novel about what gets buried when progress comes calling, and the weight of the past that refuses to stay downstream. With the precision of a literary thriller and the soul of a classic American elegy, it asks what we owe the places that shaped us—and what happens when the water finally rises to collect the debt.