After fleeing Minnesota four years earlier, Corey Flanagan has now changed virtually everything in his life—where he lives, how he creates art, his routines for work and play, and even his surname. While living a new and satisfying life in Los Angeles, the fraught and fractured past that Flanagan—erstwhile Fischer—ran from, 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 killing of a trucker with whom he had a regrettable sexual encounter. The only true constants in his life are his best friend Billy, his mother Ginny, and frequent, terrifying nightmares.

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.