Stay More Books in Order

Every Dill returns to Stay More after decades away, awakening painful memories for storekeeper Latha Bourne. With another suitor also seeking her, Latha's past emerges through townspeople's stories and the perspective of young Donny.

Diana Stoving meets a young man whose hypnotic memories suggest he is her grandfather reincarnated. Together they explore abandoned towns and the dead man's turbulent life, seeking explanations for his identity and violent death.

Brothers Jacob and Noah Ingledew settle in the Ozarks and establish Stay More. Following six generations, the novel traces the family's entanglements with national upheavals and the buildings that shape their isolated community's changing life.

The cockroaches of Stay More build a society around the mysterious humans they worship. A love triangle involving Squire Sam, resourceful Tish, and a preacher's son exposes class divisions, religious maneuvering, and precarious insect fortunes.

In the Arkansas Ozarks of 1914, a young mountaineer is convicted of raping a thirteen-year-old girl and sentenced to execution. This novel based on a true case explores wrongful condemnation and the struggle surrounding his fate.

An exiled Georgian woman arrives in America to teach mycology and later pursues a writing career. Her predatory attraction to boys shadows a life narrated through shifting perspectives, literary ambition, and encounters in the Ozarks.

Doc Swain learns healing from an experienced mentor and discovers he can treat patients through dreams. In Stay More, his unusual medical gifts, financial troubles, and turbulent personal life mingle with Ozark folklore and magic.

During World War II, twelve-year-old Dawny reports Stay More's happenings in a weekly newspaper. Children's war games give way to unsettling changes as troops train nearby and distant fighting enters the rhythms of village life.

Self-taught millionaire Vernon Ingledew decides to run for Arkansas governor. Experienced campaign advisers assemble around him, but thirteen potentially disastrous personal liabilities threaten their efforts to turn an unconventional Stay More recluse into a winning candidate.

Abducted by a former state trooper, Robin Kerr is taken to a remote Ozark mountaintop. Her story becomes a struggle to survive isolation, with animal companions and an unusual ghost shaping the world around her.

Traveling projectionist Hoppy Boyd brings westerns to rural Arkansas audiences and discovers a stowaway in his truck. Their partnership complicates his wandering routine, while an interfering preacher threatens the makeshift film show and its collection.

A former museum curator retreats to an Ozark cave, seeking escape from himself through isolation and drink. An elderly widow and a mysterious redheaded woman attempt to draw him back toward life and human connection.

Latha Bourne recounts a long life shaped by love, hardship, and the hidden Ozark village of Stay More. Her memories connect family histories and town characters across generations, revealing experiences behind the community's enigmatic heroine.