The Story
MACKENZIE (MAC) MITCHELL is known as “The Slasher Queen” for writing grisly zombie novels. Abandoned by her beloved father, YALE PARKER, when she was nine, Mac’s adult life has been consumed with alcohol and run-ins with the law causing a deep rift with her son, RYAN, 12. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, Ryan, who has a very rare blood type, needs an emergency kidney transplant, and his only chance at survival might be the last person Mac wants to ask for help — her father, who she hasn’t seen for thirty years. Mac tracks Yale down at a sleazy old-time strip club where he is a stand-up comedian. Their reunion is complicated when Yale reveals a jaw-dropping secret that he has eight other families that he kept hidden from her all her life…and one of them might be a match to save her son. As this odd couple set off on an epic road trip to track down her half-siblings, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, ultimately both learning that ‘genes’ run deep.
