“You have to give in this life to receive.”

When Ed Costigan is asked to counsel a troubled alcoholic, he wasn’t expecting to be met at the door with such aggression. Tim Finnegan, an out of control young war veteran, is right on the edge.

After a lifetime of fighting his demons, Ed tries to connect with Tim by sharing his own harrowing tale of surviving Vietnam, alcoholism, PTSD, and the memory of a terrible act that saw him jailed. But will Tim cool down long enough to hear him out?

Ed shares his heavy load, but there’s one more secret left that will rock Tim to his core and change things forever.

Heart-wrenching, funny and moving, Heavy Load the debut novel of S.E. Nethery.