May The Angels Camp Around You
Deshaun James is dying in his sleep, and the only person who seems to know it is his six-year-old son.
Night after night, Josiah jolts awake the moment Deshaun stops breathing, screaming his father back to life before silence can finish what poverty, stress, and neglect already started. But no one outside the home sees a little boy trying to save his dad. They see a "troubled" child, a struggling Black family, and a father whose old aggravated assault record makes him easy to judge and even easier to condemn.
With eviction closing in and bills swallowing everything Mekayla earns, the James family is already hanging by a thread when Mekayla's wealthy sister, Kenitra, steps in with her own solution: take Josiah away. Certain that Deshaun and Mekayla's hardship is proof of unfitness, Kenitra sets a custody battle in motion, turning the state's suspicion into a weapon against them.
Now Deshaun and Mekayla must fight on two fronts-against the unseen medical crisis stealing Deshaun's breath each night, and against a system eager to mistake survival for failure. As judgment tightens around their family, they are forced to prove that Josiah is not broken, their home is not hopeless, and love can still stand its ground when the world is determined to tear it apart.
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