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Also by S.A. Cosby:

King of Ashes, June 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024, November 2024
Paperback / e-Book
All the Sinners Bleed, June 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
My Darkest Prayer, December 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Blacktop Wasteland, September 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Under the Thumb, November 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Razorblade Tears, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Blacktop Wasteland, June 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Blacktop Wasteland, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

King of Ashes
S.A. Cosby

A Novel

Flatiron
June 2025
On Sale: June 10, 2025
Featuring: Roman Carruthers; Dante; Neveah
352 pages
ISBN: 1250832063
EAN: 9781250832061
Kindle: B0DJ7XG2MQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Multicultural African-American | Thriller Crime

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 summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see 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 Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger.

Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he’s forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and 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 mother, who 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.

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