Thomas Owens left behind a boy and a legacy, entwined since birth, and fatefully inevitable. At 23, caught up in the blur of Nashville’s music scene, Brady Owens' life has become one of violent, searing beauty, punctuated by women, booze, dive bars & studios where every day leaves him unsure whether music will be his inheritance or his curse.

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After years of sobriety, once-great Nashville musician Thomas Owens overdoses on heroin, leaving his sixteen-year-old son with equal parts talent and terror. For Brady Owens, music becomes both inheritance and warning, his father’s death igniting a war between the musical life he’d always dreamed of and a fear of where it can lead.

Years later, sent off to Nashville by a mother who can no longer watch him stagnate in grief in their Texas hometown, Brady discovers that his musical talent cannot stay hidden for long—and that maybe being discovered is what he secretly wants most. Suddenly he’s propelled into the same world of studios, late nights, and touring circuits that destroyed his father. As his musical career accelerates, so does his self-destructive streak: alcohol, volatile relationships, and an escalating reliance on violence become the answer to truths about himself he refuses to face. Brady knows he needs to slow down, but he can’t stop leaning on the gas.

His worst decisions culminate in a catastrophic concert in Amarillo that leaves his career in jeopardy, his relationships in ruins, and Brady facing criminal charges that may end his future before it begins.

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Sins of Their Fathers is a trilogy that follows the brutal coming of age of two different people in the American south, each with their own battles and scars. 

Do the conditions of our lives define us, or are we in control of our fate? This is the question at the center of this trilogy, and the longing that defines Brady, Penny, Dominique, Buck, Tomkins, Genevieve, Amanda, Randall, and even Typewriter, the patron saint of bums on the American Railroad. But maybe grit alone isn’t enough. Maybe it is the goodness and beauty that others see in us that delivers us to redemption in the end. And maybe the things we’ve wanted most deeply come delivered in a package we never would’ve expected, and it is our holy responsibility to learn to recognize it when it arrives.