They gave him a nickname. They gave him a number. They never gave him the truth.
Cedric James has spent thirty years behind bars, laughing in the face of a system built to erase him. To the state, he is a conviction. To the prison, he is Killa. To the people who love him, he is something else entirely - father, friend, memory, wound. As a filmmaker races to finish the documentary that could define Cedric's final days on death row, buried truths begin to surface, forcing everyone around him to confront what they know, what they hid, and what it means to love someone from the other side of a cage. Free Killa is a powerful novel about secrets, survival, and the man behind the name.