RUN

Sometimes the hardest thing isn’t leaving. It’s staying.

Growing up in rural Kentucky in the 1990s, Jason has friends, gets noticed, and looks like he belongs. But being noticed can feel worse than disappearing, and following someone else is almost always easier than deciding for himself.

So Jason learns to run. From school. From disappointment. Toward older friends, late nights, beer, and the intoxicating feeling of finally having somewhere to be.

For a while, it works. Until one night forces Jason to make a choice no one else can make for him.

RUN is a raw coming-of-age novel about friendship, family, fear, belonging, and the quiet decisions that shape a life, set against the back roads and small towns of 1990s Kentucky.