BLOOD HEIR: Empire of Shadows
Marcus Reid was eight years old when he watched a man die six feet from his front door. He was twelve when he pulled his first trigger. He was nineteen when he became the most powerful criminal in the Blackwell Projects — not because he was the strongest, but because he was the only one who could see the whole board.
Raised by a drug-addicted mother and shaped by Rico, a gang enforcer who becomes the closest thing to a father he'll ever know, Marcus grows up fast and hard. By sixteen he's running the operation's numbers in hidden notebooks while secretly attending night school. By nineteen, with Rico in prison, he steps into the vacuum — and builds an empire from the wreckage of everything he was supposed to become.
When Italian crime boss Victor Castellano moves to absorb the city's street networks, Marcus must outthink a man with money, lawyers, and political connections — using nothing but the intelligence the streets forged in him and the loyalty of people he's spent his whole life protecting.
But the throne has a cost. And Marcus is about to find out exactly what he's been paying with.
The streets always raise their own. The question is what they raise them toward.
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