Straight Path

By Mindwork Publishing

He built a career on never losing. Then he forged a page to keep it.

Jackson Merrill is Atlanta's best trial lawyer, until the night before closing arguments, when he fabricates one piece of evidence. The verdict goes his way. Within a week, the firm takes his job, his license, his marriage, and his car.

With nowhere left to go, Jackson shows up at the house of his father, Earl, a retired HVAC man he has spent twenty years treating as a warning. Earl asks one question: You hungry?

Among neighbors who don't care who he used to be and a circle of men who tell the truth without decoration, Jackson learns what he never practiced: listening, humility, and saying things plainly. Then an old colleague offers him a job that would restore everything he lost.

Straight Path is a novel about ambition, shame, fathers and sons, and what it costs to stop performing and start living with integrity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMSBRH2C
• ISBN13: 9798990588141
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Mindwork Publishing LLC
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"