Clayton Hays is just orphaned and just thirteen as he rides with his uncle on Interstate 20 across West Texas. On the way, amid a blinding dust storm, Clayton finds the faith and the hope to carry on into manhood. That drive begins a long ride through drought and loss for him and for friends he gains on the way, including Bowie Smith, an old cowboy who talks straight but harbors deep regret, and Leslie Johns, a compassionate young woman trying to develop relationships with the stoic men in her life in her search for companionship and for a father for her boy. They travel down Texas highways and through dusty cattle yards to the destination where the future must be faced, faith grasped, and hard choices made - Pilot Point. A modern setting of traditional Western themes, "Pilot Point" is Mark Marshall's debut novel."