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DALLERBY
In the scorched stillness of the American desert, two brothers drive toward a reckoning neither can outrun. Parry Southworth once escaped their violent home; Clyde stayed and let it harden him into something meaner and more dangerous. A simple morning pickup spirals into a fever dream of snakes in the road, rats in the dark, and a river that swallows everything in its path. As memory and reality twist together, the past refuses to stay buried—belts in the air, songs written in blood, and a hospital room where breath is counted like prayer. Written in raw, lyrical prose, *Dust and Clouds* is a brutal story of family, guilt, and survival, where dust is what hides the bones and clouds are what smother the sky. For readers of literary noir and psychological fiction who like their beauty edged with danger.
"where dust is what hides the bones and clouds are what smother the sky."
ITALY, 1945. The war is approaching its end. For Arthur Mason, it is about to become something far more personal. Far from the Derbyshire home he left behind, Arthur finds himself travelling through a fractured Europe alongside the enigmatic American Victor Wallace—two men bound by duty, carrying secrets neither fully understands. What follows will become a story Arthur carries for the rest of his life. Of friendship. Of love. Of promises made and lives lost. And of those strange, fleeting moments of beauty that somehow survive among terrible things. Decades later, the past remains. A photograph. A camera. A ring. Fragments of memory. And somewhere among them, a truth that has waited more than half a century to be understood. Rooted in stories passed directly from grandfather to grandson, The Butterfly Keeper exists in the space between memory and history—where documented events end, human recollection begins, and the emotional truth of what happened can sometimes be found only between the words. This is not simply a story about war. It is a story about what comes home. Endurance is not a test. It is a gift.
COMING SEPTEMBER 2026
Endurance is not a test. It is a gift.
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