Stacey Swan’s début novel, Olympus Texas is a novel that plays out over six days. When March Briscoe returns to the Texas town of Olympus having been caught having an affair with his brother’s wife, he is not welcomed with open arms but his mother who knows all too well the suffering and pain of a spouse who has been betrayed. Within days of March’s arrival, someone is found dead, marriages are turned upside-down and even the strongest alliances are torn apart and in the end, the ties that hold the Briscoe family together might just be what pulls them all down.