After barely surviving his entry into the world, Keeper Wick grows up worshipping his absentee father and begs to be taken on a trip someday. His father, Chance, is a traveling salesman, and Keeper saves every colorful postcard and documents every move he makes on a large, AAA roadmap. But by the time he's ten, someone else enters his life, splitting his attention: Jonnie Prettyboy, a chain-smoking thirteen-year-old girl who manages to be both tough and beautiful.

Their friendship quickly blossoms into a partnership they're too young to define. And when Jonnie decides to run away from...

A man embarks on an epic road trip to find the daughter he never knew he had in G. Gordon Davis's poignant novel, "A Road Beyond the Dark."

The second installment in the Letters from the Road series finds Keeper Wick all grown up. Now a successful pediatrician in his midthirties, Keeper has settled into the routine that life often brings, trying his best not to lament the loveless marriage in which he feels trapped.

All of that changes, however, when he runs into the woman who stole his heart when he was just a boy. And Jonnie Prettyboy's reentrance into his life comes with a...

Seventy-year-old Keeper Wick hopes to find some peace in his golden years with his wife and childhood sweetheart, Jonnie Prettyboy. His myriad children and grandchildren are spread across the country, living complex lives of their own. But Keeper has always had his own share of problems, and to his dismay, peace continues to elude him.

Then life takes an unexpected turn when Keeper learns his deceased half-brother has left him a small fortune. The money comes with one stipulation however: Keeper must move back to his hometown of Dakota Straits, Michigan, if he wants to collect what's...