Wiley Cash Books in Order

Young Jess Hall watches over his mute older brother in their North Carolina mountain town. After the boys witness something forbidden, a tragedy draws Jess into an adult world shaped by religious authority, family loyalties, and dangerous secrets.

After their mother's death, twelve-year-old Easter and her younger sister enter foster care. Their estranged father takes them away, setting off a pursuit involving their court-appointed guardian and a violent man with his own reasons for finding him.

In 1929 North Carolina, mill worker Ella May Wiggins struggles to support her children on exhausting shifts and meager wages. Her involvement in the labor movement connects her story with others confronting the costs of demanding dignity and change.

A plane crashes at a coastal North Carolina airfield, but its pilot and cargo are missing and a local man lies shot nearby. Sheriff Winston Barnes investigates as the death exposes racial tensions and unsettled histories within his community.