Fade to Black
CHANGE ALWAYS COMES WITH A COST
The only thing harder than change is staying the same.
Maurice runs Trenton. Streets, corners, the whole operation - his. But something's cracking underneath the throne, and it isn't a rival with a gun. It's sleep.
Every time Maurice closes his eyes, history reaches up and pulls him under. He's not watching these visions. He's inside them, living consequences he never signed up for, absorbing lessons he was never taught - except they won't stop coming, and they won't let him go.
He wasn't there. He couldn't have been there. So why does it feel like memory instead of nightmare?
Sankofa - an old Akan symbol of a bird reaching backward for the egg it left behind - says you cannot move forward without first going back for what you left behind. Maurice never asked for that lesson. But the past has decided he's going to learn it anyway, whether he survives the going back or not.
While the dead won't leave him alone, the living come for what's his. A rival dealer moves on his territory, and the war that follows will force Maurice into the hardest decision of his life - one that reaches back further than he ever imagined, and costs more than he's prepared to pay.
Fade to Black is a gut-punch of a novel about inheritance - the kind you don't choose and can't return. It asks what it actually costs to become someone new when the only blueprint you've ever been handed is violence. The answer will leave you shaken, and it will not let you look away
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