Self Published. (April 4, 2022)

Paperback. Signed.

As new.

For Matt Frazier, Jason "Hop" Hopkins, and Mark Ragone, 1986 was the year that changed everything, and it was the year that everything changed.

It was the year Matt fell in love. It was the year Mark started a band. It was the year Hop actually almost, kind of, but not really got a girlfriend. And it was the year Nate Mayes disappeared.

Matt, Hop and Mark have been friends since elementary school. They played ball together, they hung out together, and they somehow managed to work their way through the awkward years of junior high together. Now, they are finally starting to come into their own as they prepare to start eleventh grade, but on the first day of school, a new kid named Nate Mayes arrives, and with him, a secret. Once the boys learn the horrifying truth, they take it upon themselves to try and make it right and in so doing, set in motion a chain of events that have unexpected and life-altering consequences for everyone.

Michael Hewes lives in Gulfport, Mississippi with his wife and three boys. The Milk Wagon is his second novel.