TurnAbout

Sitting with the dejected preacher minutes before his execution, Braxton Miles doesn’t see the big deal. It’s simply his destiny.**Sixteen-year-old Brandon Michaels is a poor backwoods Georgia boy going nowhere, like his shiftless pa, until he flees from home the morning after his mother is brutally murdered by her husband in a blind rage who, after finishing the bottle, terminates his own miserable existence.Though Brandon’s never travelled farther than town. All he knows is that he deserves a better life after killing his pa, and that he could be smart one day, deciding at the bus station that New Orleans is a good fit, stepping from the bus lost and confused into his inescapable destiny and quickly understanding that favours do not ever go away.Cody Jones is a New Orleans businessman. He takes wide-eyed Brandon under his wing; he educates the kid, giving him a new beginning and the hope of that better life that comes at a steep price.Blaire Fortune is a high-priced gentleman’s escort and the most beautiful woman Brandon has ever seen. She works for CJ, charged with somehow infusing the boy with etiquette, good manners and charm.Though what Blaire and CJ cannot imagine is that, together, they are creating in Braxton Miles a sophisticated and heartless killer.