Set in the Cherokee nation not long after the Civil War tells the story of Zeke Proctor who is in trouble with the law after shooting his mistress and of Ned Christie who escapes to the Ozark Mountains after being unjustly accused of committing several murders.
Wandering through the Ozarks and bringing joy to people with his music, Fiddlin' Sam seeks the right person to take up his fiddle and carry on the practice.
Having traveled to the Ozark Mountains of Missouri to attend Great-grandmother Ola's funeral, ten-year-old Josie hears many colorful stories about a strong and generous relative she does not remember.
Harper, a clairvoyant, investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl from the Ozarks town of Sarne and finds she has a serial murder case on her hands.
Ree Dolly, a sixteen-year-old living in poverty in the Ozarks, sets out alone to find her father after he puts the family home up for bond on drug charges and disappears with the court date swiftly approaching.