Copper Notch

Copper Notch follows a fading frontier town, the open country beyond it, and a booming southern city as they are drawn into the same system of movement, contracts, and consequence. As freight accelerates and margins tighten, the town learns that usefulness comes with a cost—and that clarity, once offered, cannot be taken back. Told in spare, deliberate prose, the novel traces how pressure travels, how loss becomes normalized, and how a place decides what it will no longer absorb.