Pale Harvest

15 BYTES BOOK AWARD WINNER


"A deeply moving and intellectually profound novel built on the iconic myth of the American West."

—KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review


Jack Selvedge works a dying trade in a dead town. When Rebekah Rainsford returns on the run from her father, her dark history consumes him, and she becomes the potential for his salvation, the only thing that might dredge him up from his crisis of indifference. As betrayal and tragedy change Jack's life forever, he discovers a new if nascent hope amid the harshly beautiful western landscape that shaped him. A deeply written and deeply felt story of love, depravity, and shattered ideals, Pale Harvest examines the loss of beauty, purity, and simplicity within the mindset of the rural American West.


BRADEN HEPNER graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2009 and now lives in Idaho with his wife and son. Pale Harvest is his first novel.