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King of Ashes: A Novel Audiobook
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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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“Edge-of-your-seat thrills and spills (of blood), an action-packed, high-octane quest for vengeance and a family up against the mob. You’ll have to catch your breath after reading.”
— Barnes&Noble.com
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“Narrator Adam Lazarre-White once again immerses listeners in a dark, complex world…Listeners will be captivated.”
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"A gripping roller coaster ride of escalating danger. The story overflows with immersive velocity and crackling sensory details.”
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“Cosby crafts an exquisite thriller; the pages whir by on superb prose.”
— Deadly Pleasures (A+)
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A June 2025 LibraryReads Pick
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A BookPage Top Pick in Audiobooks
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A #1 Amazon Bestseller
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A Los Angeles Times Pick of Must-Reads for Summer
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A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
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A Washington Post Pick for Summer
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A New York Post Pick of Must-Read Thrillers
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A New York Times Bestseller
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An Amazon Best Books of the Year Pick
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The Atlantic Pick for Summer Reads
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A ScreenRant Pick of Best Thrillers of 2025
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Finalist for the 2026 Audie Award for Best Audiobook Narration of the Year
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About S. A. Cosby
S. A. Cosby is a New York Times bestselling writer from southeastern Virginia. He is the author of All the Sinners Bleed, which was on more than forty Best Book of the Year lists, including Barack Obama’s, as well as the Edgar Award finalist Razorblade Tears and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Blacktop Wasteland. He has also won the Anthony Award, International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award, BCALA Award, and Audie Award and has been longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
About Adam Lazarre-White
Adam Lazarre-White, best known for starring as Nathan Hastings on The Young & The Restless, also gained notoriety on Living Single, Girlfriends, Will & Grace, The Parkers, and in the Emmy Award–winning miniseries The Temptations. His other television and film credits include Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Deliver Us from Eva, Ocean’s 13, All about You, and Forgiveness. Lazarre-White has many credits as a voice artist on commercial radio, television, and film. He graduated from Harvard and then returned home to New York to train at Terry Schreiber Studios and continue his work on LA stages, notably in Romeo & Juliet, The Trojan Women, and Neil Labute’s This Is How It Goes.