Gray's Crossing

On a chilly, peaceful morning in 1964, Brady and Truman set out on a casual fishing trip at Old Man Gray’s pond, unaware that the day would take a life-altering turn. In the small Southern town of Alabama, where harmony is a façade, the boys find themselves grappling with the murky waters of injustice and the evil that lurks beneath the surface.

As they navigate the treacherous path of defying the status quo, Brady and Truman seek unexpected allies to help them understand the harsh realities they face. But their determination to push boundaries exposes them to more than just racial injustice, and they soon find themselves in over their heads.

With their childhood innocence slipping away and the pressures of their small town threatening to tear them apart, the boys are left questioning the strength of their friendship and the trustworthiness of those around them. In this coming-of-age story set in Gray’s Crossing, not everything is as it seems, and Brady and Truman must decide whether they can rely on each other or succumb to the forces that seek to divide them.

Paul Behk’s creative journey has glommed and grinded its way through the most multifarious of paths. Although born a direct descendant of the Holy Ark’s keepers, he never allowed his sphere of influence to remain myopic. As the frontman for a rock band in his twenties, he learned life’s lessons from both holy men and hit men, genuflecting jesters and wild-eyed billionaires alike. The result was a boundless perspective, one driven by faith but riveted by the flawed beauty of mankind. Many years later, his creative prowess unexpectedly reemerged on a literary canvas. An endless array of fascinating insights inside his quiver gives Paul’s fiction an erudite authenticity, stretching from the street to the halls of power.