IN FOR A PENNY

The law took their land. Hunger took their daughter. What they took back couldn’t be measured in dollars.

Set in Depression-era Mississippi, In for a Penny is a Southern Gothic tragedy steeped in vengeance, sorrow, and fire. When sharecropping brothers John and Lowell Tucker finally purchase the land their family bled on for generations, it feels like freedom. But when the banks come calling and the Great Depression devours everything they've built, the Tuckers are forced to watch their children go cold—and bury a little girl by the creek that once marked their property line.

What begins as grief becomes legend. The brothers turn outlaw, striking back at the men who profit off the poor and leaving behind a single penny at every scene—a copper curse, a promise of retribution.

But vengeance, once lit, burns more than its target.

Romer Shaw weaves a haunting, lyrical tale of justice gone feral. Equal parts Robin Hood and Cain and Abel, In for a Penny is a blood-soaked hymn for the voiceless—and a warning that no land stays quiet forever.

ISBN: 979-8-9897952-4-6, 54 pages (novella)