The Last Kill Floor

About this book

In the hollowed-out logging town of Cray, West Virginia, the Bodkin family slaughterhouse has carried nearly half the county for four generations. When the EPA issues a two-million-dollar compliance order, matriarch Arlene Bodkin — broad-shouldered, barking with laughter, her hands mapped by thirty years of knife work — must choose between selling to a corporate buyer that will automate everything, or fighting a battle she almost certainly cannot win. Her son Emmett, a mechanical savant who has wanted nothing but to inherit the kill floor, sees the buyout as betrayal of every man who ever bled on that concrete. His wife Tessa, quietly taking accounting courses online, uncovers debts the family doesn't know exist. And floor supervisor Deacon Rye, who raised two daughters on Cray's creek, learns the buyer's plans could poison the water they grew up fishing. As the deadline closes in, the Bodkins and the town that depends on them must reckon with secret loans, buried violations, and the price of loyalty — each of them forced to decide what can be saved, and what must be let go.

Book details

Genres:

Drama, Literary Fiction, Family Saga

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-23

Content rating:

PG-13