Sawgrass Wars: The Complete First Trilogy

Three sons. Two kings. One Florida county built on blood.

In 1991, federal agents dismantled the criminal empire that had transformed impoverished Dawber County into a smuggling kingdom. The county's most powerful men went to prison. Johnny Malone—the brilliant accountant accused of betraying them—vanished after hiding five million dollars somewhere in the Everglades.

Twelve years later, seventeen-year-old Alex Gregory discovers a coded map connected to the missing fortune. He recruits his lifelong friends: Billy Dawber, reluctant heir to the county's most feared family, and Bones Malone, a state-champion wrestler with a violent temper and a lifetime of anger toward the father who abandoned him.

Their search attracts corrupt prison officials, federal agents, criminal families, and an ancient alligator guarding secrets beneath the black water. Inside Reform Prison, Alex's father is only weeks from freedom when Warden Kinder learns about the map. Outside, Pastor Bubs knows the fortune carries a price the county may not survive paying again.

To find the money, the boys must first find Johnny Malone.

Johnny's return brings disgraced DEA agent Mack Donnelly back into the hunt. Once celebrated for destroying the Dawber organization, Mack has been ruined by scandal, alcohol, obsession, and a crushing debt to the Russian mob. What begins as a pursuit of justice becomes an act of desperation as Johnny and Mack move toward a confrontation twelve years in the making.

Then the prison gates open.

After twelve years behind bars, Bocephus Dawber returns home as a legend. A broken community welcomes its king, believing Bo can restore the prosperity it lost. He promises legitimate businesses and a brighter future—but behind closed doors, he begins reclaiming the families, properties, and loyalties he once controlled.

While Johnny travels to Switzerland to unlock a hidden fortune, the sons left behind begin building empires of their own. Alex discovers a multimillion-dollar opportunity inside Florida's dangerously unregulated pain-clinic industry. Bones finds an unlikely family in the Maroon Gang. Billy must choose between his closest friends and the uncle determined to make him heir to the Dawber kingdom.

Fathers and sons choose sides. Old enemies become new partners. Two rival kings quietly assemble their armies.

And the Sawgrass Wars begin again.

Sawgrass Wars: The Complete First Trilogy brings together Blood in the Water, Malone's Back, and The King Comes Home in one Southern Gothic crime epic about buried fortunes, broken loyalties, inherited violence, and a forgotten Florida county where every promise carries a threat.