"Award-winning\, New York T imes bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with \;King \;of \ ;Ashes\, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family dram a. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's ca r accident\, he finds his younger brother\, Dante\, in debt to dangerous c riminals and his sister\, Neveah\, exhausted from holding the family-and t he family business-together. Neveah and their father\, who run the Carruth ers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town \;of \;Jeffe rson Run\, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer w hen 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 h is 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 t here 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 brot her: himself\, and his own particular set \;of \;skills. Roman beg ins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery \;of \;what happened to their mother\, who disappeared whe n they were teenagers. But Roman is far less \;of \;a pushover tha n the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything. Because everything burns." ~from the Catalog
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