"A real page turner that held me in its grip from the very first sentence." -Tom Robotham, award-winning writer and adjunct professor of literature at Old Dominion University

"This timely and emotional story is a compelling read, with gripping writing and themes of loss and revenge." -Miranda Faye Dillon, award-winning author of The Unshatterables

"Poison is not a book you should read; it is a book you must read. Gary Ball unabashedly tackles a harrowing subject that affects us all, either as victim, perpetrator, or wounded witness. The satisfaction that Ball leaves us with is cathartic. I wholeheartedly endorse Poison." -Brandon Currence, author of The Bank, the third book in the Turtle on a Fence Post series

"Poison dramatizes the all-too-familiar tragedy of a family's destruction as a teenager is entrapped in the downward spiral of drug abuse. Gary Ball brings the reader from a youth's needless death to the consequences of a father's attempts to cope with his grief." -Ray Collins, author of The General's Briefcase, Motive for Murder, and Setup