Set against the 1927 flooding of the mississippi river, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine--and a man and a woman who find unexpected love--from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly

As rains swell the Mississippi, the river threatens to engulf all in its path, including the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, where federal agents Ted Ingersoll and Ham Johnson are headed on the trail of two missing agents and a local bootlegger--and instead stumble across an abandoned baby.

Ingersoll finds a home for the infant with local woman Dixie Clay Holliver, unaware that she's the best bootlegger around. Dixie Clay knows better than to trust an agent, but when they learn of a deadly new peril, these natural enemies will be forced to come together to survive.