This 160-page novel is set in backwoods Vermont where the local villain, Blackway, is making life hellish for Lillian, a young woman from outside the area.

Lillian enlists the powerful brute Nate and the wily old-timer Lester to take the fight to her tormenter whilst an eccentric Greek chorus of locals ponders her likely fate.

"[3] The Wall Street Journal called Go with Me "a novel with echoes of Deliverance and Cormac McCarthy," and goes on to praise the author for capturing "the feel of played-out Vermont towns and people, his dialogue has a terse, almost humorous, cadence.

"[5] O: The Oprah Magazine called it an "elegant little thriller about cunning versus cruelty...This is a meticulous New England miniature, with not a wasted word.

"[6] The Boston Globe called it "a gem that sparkles with sly insight and cuts like a knife",[7] while Matthew Lewin of The Guardian similarly wrote, "This unusual little gem of a book is part comic romp and part nail-biting thriller" and concluded that "Castle Freeman writes with both wit and a deep understanding of the human psyche, and he does not cheat us out of a dramatic climax.