"It wasn't all bad, but when it was, it was bloody." -Hazel Jensen

A severed hand, drenched in blood and twisted in its symbolism, becomes the macabre heart of power?held hostage by two rebellious teens who will stop at nothing to defy every rule and tear down the world around them. In the midst of this violent storm, a haunted, talking dog?scarred by the deep wounds of manipulation and control?is ripped from his tormented past and thrown into the inferno of a high-stakes bank heist.

As if the chaos wasn't enough, an unsuspecting local auto parts manager is suddenly caught in the jaws of a whirlwind she never saw coming. Struggling with her own demons and the suffocating confines of a mundane existence, she's swept into a spiral of violence, deception, and desperation. Her once-quiet world becomes irrevocably entangled with these lost souls, and the price of survival is higher than she could have ever imagined.