King of Ashes
Roman Carruthers built a glossy life as a financial adviser in Atlanta, far from the family crematory back home in Jefferson Run, Virginia. When his father lands in a coma after a suspicious crash, Roman returns to find his brother buried in debt to dangerous people and his sister barely holding the business together. To protect his family, the smooth, controlled Roman starts trading on the one thing a crematory can offer criminals, and discovers how easily he can become as ruthless as the men he is up against. S.A. Cosby delivers a tense Southern crime story about family, money, and the violence underneath both.
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What you might want to know about King of Ashes
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A successful financial adviser comes home to Virginia after his father's suspicious car crash and is pulled into the debts and violence threatening the family crematory.
Yes. Like S.A. Cosby's earlier novels Blacktop Wasteland and Razorblade Tears, King of Ashes is a hard-edged crime story with graphic violence and strong language.
King of Ashes was written by S.A. Cosby, published in 2025 by Flatiron Books.
King of Ashes is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, King of Ashes takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
King of Ashes is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
