Eli Cranor Books in Order

Twelve-year-old Dash Storey suspects that his teachers are zombies and that classroom screens are turning students into compliant victims. Convinced books offer a defense, he takes on a school system whose appetite for young minds may be literal.

Arkansas high school football star Billy Lowe struggles with violence at home while his new coach tries to rescue him through the sport. When Billy's abuser is found murdered, the team's playoff hopes collide with suspicion and danger.

Vietnam veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls raises his granddaughter Joanna in the Arkansas Ozarks after his son's murder conviction. When a violent local family abducts her, he confronts old debts and a cycle of brutality that threatens another generation.

An Arkansas poultry plant connects an undocumented couple fighting to survive with an ambitious manager trying to prove himself. When Edwin Saucedo is fired, his response sets their families on a collision course shaped by desperation and unequal power.

Rookie FBI agent Rae Johnson investigates illicit money flowing through a Mississippi college football program. When a star quarterback falls from a rooftop bar carrying a bag of cash, her case exposes dangerous connections between sports, money and power.