Award-prevailing, New York Times bestselling creator S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-stimulated Southern crime epic and mind-blowing own family drama.
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car twist of fate, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from preserving the own family—and the family commercial enterprise—collectively.
Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium inside the run-down relevant Virginia metropolis of Jefferson Run, see death up near every day.
But mortality attracts even nearer while it will become clean that the crash that landed their father in a coma turned into no twist of fate and Dante’s recklessness has positioned all of them in real risk.
Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a skills for making his clients wealthy, has a few cash to assist buy his brother out of trouble. But in his paintings with wannabe tough men, he’s forgotten that there are actual gangsters obtainable. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has handiest one aspect left to provide to shop his himself, and his own unique set of talents.
Roman starts his paintings for the criminals whilst Neveah tries to find the lengthy-ago thriller of what passed off to their mother, who disappeared after they had been teenagers. But Roman is a long way less of a pushover than the gangsters understand. He is inclined to do anything to save his family. Anything.
Because the whole lot burns.