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.