Saving someone else's life means finally telling the truth about your own.
Mud Creek, Illinois. A rural town where dreams go to die. Anyone with means has already left. Darren and Lucy Whitlock have stayed.
They have built a quiet life, but cracks riddle the foundation. They both hold secrets that eat away at them.
When an eighteen year old transgender girl crashes into their life with her own dark past all three of them have to face their secrets in a town where everyone knows your name.
Mud Creek is a literary novel about identity, marriage, and the people who are stuck.