William Kowalski Books in Order

Billy Mann is left on his grandfather's doorstep with only a note naming him Eddie's bastard. Raised in a small New York town on family legends and old grudges, he grows up chasing the truth about his parents and his place in the world.

After his grandfather dies, Billy Mann rides west from upstate New York to Santa Fe to search for the mother who abandoned him. The trip becomes a restless, funny, and painful hunt for family, love, and a way forward.

Seventeen-year-old Haley Bombauer, known as Flash Jackson, spends a strange summer in Mannville after breaking her leg. Lessons from her mysterious grandmother push her toward family secrets, hidden powers, and a harder kind of independence.

Francie and Colt Hart buy an old Pennsylvania farmhouse for very different reasons, hoping it might steady their marriage. Instead, the house's buried history, and the family cemetery on the property, pulls old wounds and dangerous secrets into the open.

Rosario Gomez has left gang life behind and wants a steady job, a diploma, and a future with his pregnant girlfriend. But when old loyalties and a drive-by shooting drag him backward, revenge starts to look dangerously familiar.

Walter Davis is smart, ambitious, and determined to recover after his mother's medical bills leave him homeless. Living out of his car, he fights to keep his dignity, tell fewer lies, and build a future before everything slips away.

Single mother Linda is barely holding things together when her son Dre needs a kidney transplant. Her only hope is LeVon, Dre's half-brother, a gang-connected drug dealer who has never had much reason to care about anyone else.

Mother Angelique runs a shelter for homeless women and children, where newly orphaned Jamal arrives with stories about a mysterious protector named Jacky Wacky. As strange events pile up, grief, faith, and street violence take on an unsettling new shape.

Back from Afghanistan with physical pain, grief, and a family already fraying at the edges, Jeremy Merkin tries to build a normal life. Then a death, a missing cousin, and long-hidden secrets force him to confront what war brought home.

In 1970, disgraced former Army captain Howard Starling is scraping by as a private investigator when a missing-person case opens onto old crimes and Cold War ghosts. It's a dark thriller about secrecy, identity, and a past that won't let go.

In a prison world of the future, Chago is offered a brutal bargain: step through a machine that claims to judge innocence and guilt. When the system is exposed as a lie, revolt erupts, and his fight narrows to saving his son.

Professional poker player Kat Thomas lives by one rule: think with your head, not your heart. Then her best friend dies and leaves Kat caring for a grieving ten-year-old boy, forcing her to rethink the kind of life she's been betting on.

Rasheed has spent years dodging the gang that runs his neighborhood while caring for his wounded sister and surviving chaos at home. A few unlikely allies give him a glimpse of another life, but getting there may cost him.

In 1908, a Polish mother and her three daughters leave rural Poland for Buffalo and begin building a new life from hard work, food, and stubborn resilience. Their story grows into a multigenerational novel about immigration, family, and finding home.