Publisher's Synopsis
ROGER "BUD" MACLEOD AND HIS TWO BROTHERS return to the ramshackle
home of their youth, on emergency leave from the military after the
murder of their reviled father. Instead of having the festive reunion they'd planned
with Mama and their sister, the three soldiers are flung into a series of violent
confrontations with old and new rivals plus double trouble: Papa's siblings. In their
way, Harvey and Rutha MacLeod are even more brutal than Papa, hellbent on
claiming the legacy they believe he left for them and willing to run over anybody
in their way. Picking up where the critically acclaimed Hardscrabble Road left off, Return to
Hardscrabble Road delves even deeper into Roger's growth from tormented boy to
determined young man at the crossroads of everything he loves and fears. This
time, he doesn't merely have to survive-he must save his whole misbegotten
family without sacrificing his soul.
