To Pluto and Back

TO PLUTO AND BACK, it was a promise between a mother and her son.

For Hannah, the boarded-up house in Finchville was supposed to stay a memory—of a life defined by a violent husband and a narrow escape. But when a catastrophic accident on Highway 60 leaves her seven-year-old son, Jace, balanced on the edge of eternity, her past and present collide.

Trapped in a "limbo" that looks remarkably like the home she fled, Hannah is granted a miracle with a cruel expiration date: a few final hours to hold her son and prepare him for the journey to "Pluto." But as the cold, black water of her trauma begins to rise through the floorboards, Hannah realizes that Jace isn't the only one who needs to be saved.

From a Kentucky roadside to the "Between" of a mother’s love, To Pluto and Back is a haunting journey of horror and mercy. It is a story for anyone who has ever looked at the stars and wondered if the people we lose ever truly stop growing.

Sometimes, to save the future, you have to forgive the ghosts of the past.