Drew Ballard shreds guitar nightly in a hair-metal tribute band while making rent as a security guard, when the jingle-writing gigs dry up. Edgewater is a quicksand ’burb best known as an east-coast filmmaking mecca where careers are made and broken in the same take. Its supporting cast of floozies, fiends, and hyphenates serve to derail his reinvention with the unexpected love of his life and quest for his birth parents.

Enter new roommate Barron, a Master’s psych student and the parasitic puppeteer behind Drew's short-lived happiness, crushing all under the lens of his demonic microscope: a character study in the ultimate sense of the term. But with his story now being made into a movie, vengeance can manifest in many forms….

Gordon Highland has been directing, producing, and editing videos professionally for 15 years, has written dozens of commercially-produced scripts, and reams of ad and print copy. Major Inversions is his first novel.

Gordon lives in Overland Park, KS, where he also enjoys writing, recording, and performing music, photography, and filmmaking.