Michael Farris Smith Books in Order

Jon and Estelle struggle with the disappearance of their young daughter after an abduction in Paris. As hope fades and their marriage frays, a free-spirited artist draws Jon toward reckless choices, testing their capacity for faith and forgiveness.

After relentless hurricanes leave the Gulf Coast abandoned by the government, Cohen stays near his family's graves. An ambush forces him onto the road, where a dangerous preacher's captive community presents a new struggle for survival.

This prequel to Rivers follows four people left below a government boundary after catastrophic Gulf Coast hurricanes. Cohen, preacher Aggie, Bub and Ava struggle in a region without services, where their intersecting lives carry the threat of violence.

Returning home after eleven years in prison, Russell Gaines finds that others still want revenge. His path crosses Maben and her young daughter after a desperate night leaves a deputy dead, forcing difficult decisions about their survival.

Bare-knuckle fighter Jack faces mounting injuries, a dying foster mother and the loss of her family's property. When a gambler steals the money meant to settle his debts, a carnival worker offers help that carries further danger.

A family of drifters arrives in declining Red Bluff, Mississippi, testing the sheriff's hopes for his community. Returning sculptor Colburn finds a connection with a local bar owner as old grief and secrets haunt the surrounding kudzu-covered woods.

Before meeting Gatsby, Nick Carraway serves in the trenches of the First World War. Unable to settle after the destruction he witnesses, he seeks escape through a Paris romance and the troubled streets of New Orleans.

Jessie returns to her estranged father in hurricane-ravaged Mississippi with her toddler while the child’s father is hunted. A religious zealot exploits the region’s desperation, drawing their fractured family and other vulnerable lives toward a violent collision.

Two men hired to retrieve something precious discover a mysterious child in an abandoned church cellar. Their uncertain mission intersects with an elderly woman wandering through the woods, forcing damaged people to choose between obedience, danger, and redemption.