Nick Wilgus: 10 books

After the sudden death of his wife and daughter, gifted writer and thinker Leo Collins is plunged into the madness of a world that no longer makes sense. Separated from the herd, he is alone with questions that have no answers. "The Man Who Got Lost" is a dark, provocative novel full of gripping imagery that questions what it means to be sane in a world that is very often not.

Telling the truth might set you free, but only if you’re willing to pay the price.  Growing up gay in rural Michigan at the height of the Cold War has taught Cyrus Hood how to keep quiet—about a lot of things. With his mother gone, he fights to keep his family together and care for his...

Deadworld: Book One High school juniors Billy Gunn and Rory Wilder return from a weekend camping trip to find a mysterious plague has wiped out their small town of Port Moss, Mississippi. The question of why is only the beginning—especially when the dead refuse to stay dead. Figuring...

Sequel to Shaking the Sugar TreeWhen his snobbish future in-laws travel all the way from Boston to visit, wise-cracking Southerner Wiley Cantrell learns that gay marriage is not without its disadvantages. Occupied by concerns over the health of his special needs son Noah, a meth baby who was...

When his mother goes out to party one Saturday night and doesn't come back, seven-year-old Ishmael Hood is taken in by his estranged uncle Henry and Henry's live-in boyfriend, Sam. As this unlikely trio begins to build a new life together, they encounter both support and hostility in the...

Follow Bangkok’s only sleuthing Buddhist monk Father Ananda as he solves the murder of a homeless boy, the gruesome and dubious suicide of a Buddhist nun and the ominous appearance of ghostly heads in the waters of Central Thailand. Mindfulness and Murder, Sister Suicide and Killer Karma, the first...

John Peletier is a newspaper writer who specializes in the occult. His latest assignment is a visit to an abandoned town in rural Michigan. He is well aware of the town's reputation for evil. Having investigated many such towns, he knows the stories are more interesting than the truth.The town, Edward's...

Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stone’s...

Sequel to Stones in the Road Years have gone by since the death of Noah, his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it’s time to move on. He and his husband, Jackson Ledbetter, try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized. Difficulties...

Thomas, an older gay musician living in a small Southern town, is ready to start a family. He fosters Jeremy, a special needs boy with no arms, and teaches him to play the drums so Jeremy can realize his potential to do anything he wants. Though it takes time, Thomas’s closeted boyfriend Randy steps...