Robert Epperson embarks on a quest away from an otherworldly college realm on the High Plains of Texas and into a corporate cauldron that induces an altered state. Once he is awakened to American tyranny, Robert takes his girlfriend, Jennifer, on a supercharged ride to save his family in a small Texas town. Little does Robert know that the same authoritarianism he tries to warn against will bring him down and force an epic transformation, one that shapes his perception of Jennifer's pivotal role in the game of being cruel to be kind.

Thistles Landing — a fresh and current retelling of mythical, archetypal heroic journeys — is a dynamic, engrossing, and thought-provoking read that will keep you turning pages as you venture into lost territory of the mind and heart.

Decorated with a latticework of surreal poetic visuals — a steady camera recording through the eyes of mania — this thrilling account of Robert's emerging disorder pits raw, often unpalatable emotion against the background of loving and supportive relationships. One must give way to the other, and, through some stumbling about, the path eventually becomes clear.

Robert's conquest, and yours, is a soundtrack for breaking down in order to build anew. The journey from the fall must go though a harsh winter before the hope of spring returns, a lesson that applies both at an individual level and to the evolution currently occurring in American society.