VICES
A generational saga of stolen identities, inherited trauma, and the addiction to silence
- Literary Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Romance
The destruction of James White began long before his first breath. Born into a lineage of erasure and obsession, James is a man defined by what was taken from him. Ripped from his father’s arms as a child and rebranded with a false name, he grows up in the shadow of a mother’s trauma and a stepfather’s violence. James is a once-in-a-generation talent, a portrait artist whose brushes possess the terrifying power to expose the human soul. But honesty is a dangerous currency in a world built on lies. To survive the weight of his stolen past, James turns to the only things that numb the pain: the bottle, the gamble, and the darkness of Oregon’s backroads. Even as he finds a flicker of hope in the eyes of his son, Junior, the ghosts of the Bradley family bloodline refuse to stay buried. From the tragic suffocation of a brother he barely knew to a life-altering crash that fractures his memory, James must navigate a labyrinth of addiction and deceit. Can he reclaim the identity that was stolen beneath a California sun, or will the final secret finally pull him under? Vices is a devastating, cinematic exploration of how the sins of the parents become the chains of the children.