Haunted by loss, engineering student Ethan Ward collapses into self-imposed exile on his family's rural Kansas farm. Neglecting friends, family and future Ethan consumes himself in an obsessive and ill-advised project: the construction of a submarine. Lost between hope and regret, determined to save one love and regain another, Ethan takes his life apart only to reassemble it again in steel and wire. Treadpath is a novel that chronicles the harsh realities of redemption and reminds us that the hardest forgiveness to attain is often our own.