Earl, a 20-something Southern kid, is adrift in life. After his father's death, his mother - who can no longer deal with him - sends him to live with his grandmother in Memphis. His grandmother, getting senile and paranoid, turns him out on the streets of Memphis and from there his path leads him to New York City. In New York, Earl works as a hustler, then as a kept boy, but ultimately fails at both. Addicted and lost, he ends up on a train back to Omaha, where his mother keeps her door cl...

Deacon has an ugly history, a history that broke him, leaving him a ghost of a man. Out of necessity, he left the normal world to descend into the criminal world and found he fit. So he stayed. Cold as ice and living off the grid, Deacon has no intention to connect, not with anyone.Then he returns to some remote cabins in the Colorado Mountains and finds they have new owners. One of them is Cassidy Swallow, a young woman willing to work hard to live her quiet dream in a house by a ...

All it takes to start the adventure of a lifetime is the discovery of one headless dead guy. Then, before you know it, you've gone from new girl to it girl with a determined gang of amateur sleuths made up of:the ice-cold hot guy (icy hot guy? Sure, we'll go with that) who just so happens to be your sorta-bossthe childhood best friends who woulda coulda never quite got their act to...

The author of Winter's Bone delivers "a terrifying journey into the heart of darkness" with this suspenseful coming of age tale set in the Ozarks ( The New York Times Book Review).Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him—she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short f...

" Wake of Vultures is, quite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more."―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling authorSupernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy adventure starring ever fearless Nettie Lonesome.Nettie Lonesome dreams of a gr...

The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home—one to fight for, be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Asbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead person. Allen Ring was another: He’d won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses’ troubles, the characters in these classic Louis L’Amour short stories are all “riding for the brand”—staying loyal to what...

"A marvelous debut" this novel about a violent act in a small Appalachian town "has everything a big novel should have . . . I hated to put it down." —John Grisham, New York Times– bestselling authorAfter seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-pa...

You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood - the horrors that led you to take the lives of your own father and grandfather. You journey back through darkness, deliberately, tentatively, to recover your own childhood. You compose your captivity, your torture, and the brutality of the men youve just killed. This was life on the farm: the strange ...

Torn between two worlds, Sunny Callahan is the daughter of a mixed marriage. She's vowed to avenge her Indian mother's senseless death.Her search leads her to Cole Fremont, a strong-willed white-man with a seductive smile that's both tender and tempting.But Cole has a vow of his own: to never forget—or forgive—the brutal Indian attack on his own kin.How Sunny, the bewitching Quechan beauty, was turning his hatred to desire, Cole couldn't tell. But it was a forbidden lo...

After witnessing a strange explosion, Janet becomes a murderer’s next targetJanet Rhys is driving through the backwoods of Canada when she sees the truck ahead of her lose control, smash into a snow bank, and flip sideways, completely blocking the road. Springing to action, she darts into a nearby barn, searching for something to use to rescue the person trapped inside. When she hears an explosion, Janet returns to find the truck is nothing but smoking wreckage, an...

A coming of age debut novel from The Boondock Saints and Young Indiana Jones actor Sean Patrick Flanery.A young Mickey navigates through the dense Texas humidity of the 70s and out onto the porch every single time his Granddaddy calls him, where he's presented with the heirloom recipe for life, love, and manhood. But all the logic and insight in the world cannot prepare him to operate correctly in the presence of a wonderfully beautiful little girl...

A collection of short stories from "a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's" (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review ).Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age twenty-six. In 1983 the posthumous publication of this book—a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, t...