The Trouble Up North A Novel

The Sawbrooks have lived on prime real estate on the lakes of Michigan since before there was prime real estate. A family of smugglers and bootleggers, every man, woman, and child in each generation has been taught to navigate the nooks and cranniesof the rivers and highways that flow in and out of Canada. The hidden routes are the family's legacy. But today, the Sawbrooks are deeply fractured, and the money that's sustained the family is running out.
Edward, the Sawbrook patriarch, is dying from cancer, and his wife,Rhoda,is bitterlydisappointed in her three adult children. The eldest daughter, Lucy, is now a park ranger, working to federally protect the land against her mother's will; the middle son, Buckner, hasn't been the same since he came back from the armysuffering from alcoholism; and the youngest daughter, Jewell, is wasting her potential as a card player andbartender.
When Jewell is asked to commit a crime for a major insurance payout, she agrees, eager for the cash, but too late,she realizes that that the boat she torched wasn't empty...
Together,the Sawbrooks will have to contend with the old familial ways and the new, shifting world, and faceeach other-and their pain-filled past-to smuggle one more thing out of their land tosafety.