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High school guidance counselor Nora Jenkins has her hands full. Her new student, Ivy Ryman, has been wreaking havoc at Oakland High and has occupied all of Nora’s work hours. With his busy schedule, music producer Blaze Ryman can’t get a handle on his daughter. But Nora has a soft spot for the girl who’s lost her mother and is now living with her mega-famous father.

The one constant in Jules’ life is family—the plentiful Martin clan. Domestic terrorism brought the Martins together under one roof to endure food scarcity, punishing Gulf Coast heat, no electricity, and no indoor plumbing. One outhouse for twelve people is no way to live, but at least they are safe. For now. With every setback and stolen dignity, Jules questions whether she wants to survive at all.

Een indringend portret van een van Amerika's meest bepalende tijdperken: de Grote Depressie van de jaren dertig. Texas, 1934. Miljoenen mensen zitten zonder werk en langdurige droogte heeft het leven op de Great Plains stevig in zijn greep. Boeren vechten om hun land en hun inkomsten te behouden aangezien de oogsten schraal zijn, het water opdroogt en stofstormen hen dreigen te begraven. Een van de donkerste episodes van de -Grote Depressie, de periode van de Dust Bowl, is aangebroken.

Mick Hardin returns to the trials and tribulations of local sheriff duties, whilst the previous sheriff, his sister Linda, recovers from a gunshot wound sustained in the line of duty. Living in Linda's house in Rocksalt, Mick finds himself entwined in the trials and tribulations of being a sheriff in the perturbing Kentucky community. Unable to retire from a world of dubiousness and violence, Mick Hardin is back with determination to deliver retribution.

Moira Allyson is about to turn 50, and her life doesn't look like she'd hoped it would. Her husband has passed away, and she misses her two sons now that they're away in college. Her financial stability doesn't help the loneliness, so she invites her four friends to come and spend the weekend in her in her extravagant waterfront mansion in Savannah, Georgia, to celebrate her 50th birthday. But the women bring their own sets of struggles, and what looks like the perfect getaway weekend on the surface starts to reveal the cracks and secrets in each of their lives.

Ex-cop Woody Barker lives on a houseboat (the Ship Happens) off the Gulf Coast and spends his days bickering/flirting with his ex-wife and attending doctor appointments about his malfunctioning ticker. He's already survived several heart attacks and is debating the merits of quitting smoking so he can get on the organ donor waitlist. But he gets the surprise of a lifetime when an old girlfriend reveals on her deathbed that Woody has a seventeen-year-old daughter he never knew about: Caroline.

June's Beauty Shop is a staple in Whitetail, a small Southern town north of Atlanta. It may look like an outdated hole-in-the-wall slathered in Dolly Parton memorabilia, but to the women in town, it is a sacred space. To Georgia and Junie Scott, it is their family legacy, particularly their late mother's. For generations, the shop has been passed to the oldest daughter, always named June. But Mama wanted more for her firstborn. Now Georgia is living the life everyone expected, the life everyone wanted for her. Everyone, that is, except her.

James and Millie, with their small family, are delighted to join Millie's parents on their recently purchased sorghum farm. The property looks like paradise but the harmony of the multi-generational family shatters when tempers flare. As disputes escalate, a tragedy leaves them with a legacy of guilt and unanswered questions.

Set against the backdrop of a sultry Alabama summer in 1987, Rebel Rising tells a haunting tale of a young boy's courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy. Twelve-year-old Rebel's world shatters when he finds his brother dead, leaving behind a silence heavy with secrets. But the silence speaks, and from it emerges a voice urging Rebel to rise against the tides of danger encroaching upon his family.

After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. But his attempts to start again are wrecked when a brutal homicide claims the life of an old friend and he is forced to face the true reason for his return—to pay an old debt.

After a dog belonging to local pet activist Tilly Lawson is snatched right out of her backyard in Sunflower County, MS, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency are up to their ears in concerned pet owners. Could Tilly's work liberating abused animals have come back to bite her, or was this a random act of dognapping?

Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property outside his North Carolina hometown, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours of passing in and out of consciousness, Travis is discovered by Carlton Toomey, the wise and vicious farmer who set the trap to protect his plants, and Travis's confrontation with the subtle evils within his rural world has begun.

We had it all—a lake house, two kids, and twenty years of marriage. Except, our marriage was no longer exciting. We scheduled intimacy, ate meals in silence, and became strangers. Our kids went off to college, and we were now empty-nesters, trying to reconnect. But my husband, a psychology professor and thriller novelist, had other plans. Perhaps writing a fictional novel had him living in a false reality? Perhaps he was having a mid-life crisis? He didn't want to reconnect with me; he just wanted to replace me. Worst of all, the girl he was having an affair with was our son's girlfriend.

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

Hundreds of years before Europeans first viewed the Appalachians, a Native American girl growing up in the shadow of Currahee Mountain becomes a skilled warrior and sets out on a quest to save her family from ruin. Half a millennium later, another girl, living under the same mountain and enduring similar hardships, faces a terrible decision. In order to save her family, she must face betrayal, degradation, and violence at the hands of murderous fanatics. The lives of these two girls converge during a devastating flood that hits the small town of Toccoa, Georgia.

As a young woman, Naomi Simmons grabbed her one chance to escape the overwhelming demands of her selfish family by marrying devout older man Jacob Purcell. But it only landed her with a controlling, unfaithful husband who delights in hurling insults at her and their troubled now-teenage daughter, Ethel Mae. So, Naomi is amazed and touched when Homer Clark sees her for the vibrant, intelligent woman she truly is. Believing the handsome, worldly widower is her love of a lifetime, Naomi plans to leave with Homer and start fresh in the big city.

In an immersive Southern Gothic with echoes of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, a restauranteur lured by pandemic-era incentives moves her family to a seemingly idyllic small town in Georgia, only to discover a darkness lurking beneath the Southern hospitality and sun-dappled streets.

Lucas Covington has everything: Charleston's old money, a successful family business, and Amara—the strong, brilliant professor who turned his world upside down. One careless conversation destroys it all. When Amara overhears Lucas admitting he's still torn about his recently single ex and not sure if he loves her, she walks out, leaving behind the life they were building and the man too blind to see what he had. As Lucas tumbles back into a toxic relationship with his high school sweetheart, he realizes just how badly he screwed up.

Bibi’s marriage is in trouble, thanks to her stepdaughter, Scarlett, who has driven a wedge between her and Beau. Frustrated and feeling invisible, Bibi vanishes for a few days, hoping to regain her husband’s attention. But instead of the reaction she’d hoped for, Beau reports her missing—along with his family’s priceless heirloom jewels. Now, Bibi’s escape has become headline news, and she’s caught in a web of suspicion she never saw coming.

Paso Chico, un pueblo caluroso al borde del río, con calles de tierra que desembocan en una orilla invadida por barcos de carga y jaurías de perros, es donde nace la escuálida Marga, a quien la gente atribuye la mala suerte. El verano que cumple trece años, Marga conoce al ciego don Godoy y a un muchacho llamado Recio, fanático de la cantina en la que todo el mundo se da cita sediento de agüita de arroz. Estos dos hombres le abrirán los ojos y dejarán en evidencia las formas extrañas y torcidas que tienen las relaciones en este lugar.