Explore six works of fiction, from the American Civil War to the cusp of a new century. Every book links directly to Bookshop.org.
A coming-of-age story set against the arrival of the pandemic, where music, friendship and love endure in the Missouri Ozarks.
In Springfield, Missouri, Casey, Tyndall and Devon navigate the charged final months of high school. As the pandemic approaches, the three friends discover what it means to stay connected when the world closes in.
An Ozarks family inheritance becomes entangled with a haunting local legend, superstition and generational loss.
Hettienne Sheehy inherits a Missouri Ozarks estate shadowed by a sensational ghost story. Over the decades, the legend grows ever more destructive, testing her loyalty to both the land and her family.
A prizewinning story of unexpected love amid the grit and danger of highway construction in the Ozarks.
During a difficult road-building project in 1990s Arkansas, an uncompromising highway inspector and a dirt foreman discover a relationship neither planned for. Selected by Lauren Groff for the Knickerbocker Prize.
The sequel to Morkan’s Quarry explores betrayal, family secrets and racial violence in post–Civil War Springfield.
A marriage and a forbidden lifelong love set the course for the next Morkan generation against the turbulent history of Reconstruction-era Missouri.
Twelve darkly inventive stories about desire, family and the costs of love, set across the Ozarks and the South.
Selected by Sabina Murray for the Juniper Prize for Fiction, these twelve stories travel across eras and landscapes, from the Missouri Ozarks to New Orleans and Mississippi. Originally published in 2013; reissued by Southern Hollow Press in 2025.
A Civil War family saga about loyalty, sacrifice and the fight for a limestone quarry in Missouri.
In 1861, Michael Morkan is separated from his family and imprisoned as a rebel traitor. His son Leighton seeks to restore both his freedom and their livelihood in Springfield, Missouri.