There is a black Lab on the cover and the book is not about a dog. A novel about a man who loses nearly everything, and the one thing that will not leave.

Jetson’s Journey publishes September 15, 2026. Kindle is $4.99 through launch day, then $9.99. Paperback, hardcover, and a launch night in Franklin.

Before he was Jetson, he was Red—a young Labrador at Riverspook, marked with a dab of paint while he waited for the family that would name him. Riverspook is his origin story. Five Labrador siblings escape before dawn when something dark approaches. They cross a swelling creek and survive a night in the wilderness that will teach them what they were born to be. A contemporary literary novella in the tradition of Watership Down and A Dog’s Way Home, told in Red’s own voice. Th