Cowboy Jamboree Press 2025
TRAVELING ALONE
Nestled in the mountain ridges of North Carolina is the tight-knit Wilkesboro community where the dying are pulled to Holt Watson in the hopes he will help them leave this world. When he answers their calls, he’s paid with the dead’s gifts, like Uncle Hump’s guitar picking and Mr. Dooly’s songwriting.
Now he’s parlayed those gifts into a successful music career—one that doesn’t belong to him. Holt keeps his distance from his hometown, the dying, and its powers. But then, Birdie Hardin, the woman who raised him, is on her own deathbed calling him home.
Nestled in the mountain ridges of North Carolina is the tight-knit Wilkesboro community where the dying are pulled to Holt Watson in the hopes he will help them leave this world. When he answers their calls, he’s paid with the dead’s gifts, like Uncle Hump’s guitar picking and Mr. Dooly’s songwriting.
Now he’s parlayed those gifts into a successful music career—one that doesn’t belong to him. Holt keeps his distance from his hometown, the dying, and its powers. But then, Birdie Hardin, the woman who raised him, is on her own deathbed calling him home.