King of Ashes

Award-winning,New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashesa Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his fatherΓÇÖs car accidenthe finds his younger brotherDantein debt to dangerous criminals and his sisterNeveahexhausted from holding the familyΓÇöand the family businessΓÇötogether. Neveah and their fatherwho run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Runsee death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and DanteΓÇÖs recklessness has placed them all in real danger. Romana financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients richhas some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guysheΓÇÖs forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smokeRoman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himselfand his own particular set of skills. Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their motherwho disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything. Because everything burns.