Bayou

Crime, revenge, love, and death interconnect in this fast-paced novel set in the Great Depression. Without home, work, or a family, Ray is struggling to survive the Great Depression. One day, a chance meeting with a fellow hobo named Johnny changes the trajectory of his journey. Teaming up, Ray and Johnny start robbing banks, dodging the law, and planning for their future. Ray meets and falls in love with a woman who joins their gang and a happy life seems only a matter of time for him.
Then a bank robbery goes horribly wrong, and Ray's life careens down a path he never imagined, wanted, and may not survive.