While living a new and satisfying life in California, the fraught and fractured past that Corey Flanagan ran from four years earlier eventually catches up with him in unforeseen ways, dragging him back to the Midwest for a reckoning with his unresolved former life, most significantly the guilt and responsibility for the accidental killing of a trucker with whom Corey had a regrettable one-night tryst. 

Elliott Foster is the award-winning author of Panic River, the first volume in a trilogy, followed by Reckoning Waves. His other works include Retrieving Isaac & Jason and Whispering Pines - Tales From a Northwoods Cabin, a 2016 Indie Next finalist for Best Fiction. Elliott's short stories, poems, and essays have been published in a variety of journals and other media. Foster debuted Reckoning Waves on the national stage in New Orleans at Saints and Sinners 2022, North America’s largest LGBTQ book festival, held on March 27-29th. In 2021, he read from Panic River at the Festival.