Raven's Peak: Cold Hard Bitch

Would you take drastic action to get your kids back if they suddenly disappeared?
The stars aligned up for Kyle Tillman when he married his high school sweetheart, Nicole Griggs. Until Nicki left, he didn’t, couldn’t know, that she was his ‘WHY’ in life. Nicki left because of Kyle’s indiscretions, and his powerlessness to control, what he calls, rollicking confrontations with the ethnically challenged individuals of his state.
Kyle escapes Franklin, but it doesn’t take him long to realize that Nicki was one of the essential elements needed to sustain his life—like breathing and eating, so now, Kyle has to climb Mount Everest to get his fairy tale back.
Nicki, a woman caught in a vice, an existential crucible of pain, finally calls him, not to give him absolution, to tell him she has terminal Cancer and to ask him to raise their kids, Tyler and Cole. Kyle, now a firefighter in Morgantown, gladly accepts the challenge and uses it as an opportunity to woo Nicki back.
Kyle’s plan for redemption is quickly derailed, and seems untenable when their two boys disappear into the Appalachians. Tragic events follow the disappearance of their boys that threatens his life, and Nicki’s life. Explosive events that leave Nicki crestfallen and inconsolable.
Kyle’s motto is ‘Every day is just a roll of the dice’ and there’s nothing he won’t do to find his kids. And he did. And when the dust settled, he wished he had chosen a different course of action because trading two wrongs to right a wrong doesn’t necessarily bring your kids back in the same condition they left—if at all. Raven’s Peak isn’t a commanding story unless one can assimilate why the boys were taken, by whom, the condition they were returned, the fallout, and of-course—the retribution. The justice may be slow, sometimes invisible, but it is there, specially if your dad is Kyle Tillman. -Cole Savage