Framed: A Novel of Family, Betrayal, and Forgiveness in the American South

Joe Beaumont was the youngest of five brothers-the one their father trusted most. Until the morning a dream he shouldn't have shared ended with his brothers leaving him for dead, and a family that never spoke of it again.Cut off from everything he knew, Joe rebuilds his life from nothing. Years later, just as he begins to rise again, a false accusation takes it all a second time.But this time, he doesn't disappear.An unexpected opportunity pulls him into the highest levels of state government. Then the brothers who betrayed him reappear-desperate for help, unaware of who he has become.Joe is forced to face what was done to him-and what it made him.The question is no longer what happened to the boy they left behind. It's what the man in front of them will choose to do.