Of A Black Cloud: The Spark

OF A BLACK CLOUD - VOLUME 1

Queensgrove has never been a city where violence disappears. It only changes hands.

For years, the name Big Tu carried weight throughout the city. His death should have ended an era, but instead it left behind a web of secrets, grudges, bloodlines, and unfinished business that would eventually fall onto the shoulders of a new generation.

At the center of that generation is Kshon-a young man learning how quickly survival can turn into power. Alongside his twin brother Keem and their circle of friends, Kshon navigates a world where reputation can be more valuable than money and one mistake can permanently alter the lives of everyone around you.

Trey Tiermont is fighting his own battle within that same world. His rivalry with Kshon begins as something personal, but a single act of violence sets off consequences far beyond what either of them could have imagined.

While the younger generation struggles to survive the fallout, the truth about Queensgrove's past begins resurfacing.

The deeper the story goes, the more complicated the legacy of Big Tu becomes. Vell carries his own connection to that history. Glenda carries secrets of her own. And the people who thought they understood what happened years ago may discover that they were living with the wrong version of the truth.

What follows is not simply a story about the streets.

It is a story about family, identity, loyalty, revenge, guilt, ambition, and the price of inheriting a world you never asked to build.

In Queensgrove, everybody is connected.

Everybody has something to lose.

And sooner or later, the past comes looking for everybody.

OF A BLACK CLOUD is the first volume of a sprawling saga about a generation caught between the sins of those who came before them and the violent future they are creating for themselves.