SAINTS OF THE DEAD DISTRICT
READING AGE 18+
In the Dead District, nothing grows. Not hope. Not trust. Not mercy. Just men and the shadows they leave behind.
Jake was born here, raised here, and built his life on being invisible. A mid-level fixer in the criminal underworld, he's smart enough to survive and not powerful enough to threaten anyone. He thought he understood the rules.
Then he was framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Now every crew in the Dead District wants him dead. The man he's accused of killing was a kingpin—and the daughter, Seraphina Vance, has sworn vengeance. But as Jake digs deeper, he discovers the conspiracy isn't about him at all. He was just the convenient scapegoat for something much larger.
Someone is orchestrating a war in the Dead District. The trail leads to Uptown, to city officials, legitimate businessmen, and forces Jake can't touch. And the deeper he digs, the more he realizes the conspiracy reaches back decades—to the death of his uncle Isaac, to his father's mysterious accident, to secrets his mother took to her grave.
Every answer breeds new questions. Every alliance crumbles. And with each chapter, Jake discovers he's been a pawn in a game that started before he was born.
To survive, he'll have to become something he never wanted to be: a leader, a symbol, a king. But building a kingdom in the Dead District means burning down everything that came before.
The only thing worse than losing everything is discovering who you have to become to win it back.
Unfold
The fire burned beneath the Foundry, just as it always had. Underground coal seams, ignited decades ago, pulsing like a dying heart beneath the rusted iron and crumbling brick. The heat rose through the floor, warming the soles of Jake's boots. He'd felt it a thousand times before—the strange, almost-living warmth of a place that should have ……
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