King of Ashes

King of AshesINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Propulsive and powerful. . . A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger. New York Times Book Review Pick up the novel everyone will be talking about. The Atlantic Dark, riveting, and accomplished. Washington Post Award winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is

along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs

In search of her mother and the father she has never met

pain and passion

secret passage-filled Hawthorne House

the scars too deep to heal

I know I can solve it

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories

Dean always gets what he wants

”—Adam Grant

can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death

Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian