The King Of The Block

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The streets never forget your name.

Dante Jones did eighteen months in Grafton on charges that should've been federal. When he came home, he swore he was done. No more corners. No more packages. No more D-Money.

Three years later, he's built something real. Fairfax Fresh — a market in the heart of Cleveland's east side, serving honest food to a neighborhood that's been poisoned long enough. He's got a woman who believes in him, a community that respects him, and a Glock 19 under the counter because old habits die hard.

Then the fires start.

Rome's barbershop — forty years of history — burns to the ground in an hour. A hundred-million-dollar development project is coming for Fairfax Avenue, and the money behind it isn't interested in negotiation. It's interested in destruction.

But this isn't gentrification.

This is war.

When Dante digs into who's really funding the project, he uncovers something worse than greedy developers. The Garrett family out of Detroit — the same organization that's been trying to take Cleveland for years — is using urban renewal as a Trojan horse. Buy the neighborhood. Burn what won't sell. Push out Tank's operation and take over the territory without firing a shot.

Except now they're firing shots. And Dante's store is next on their list.

Tank Williams needs him. His childhood friend, the king of Fairfax, is facing a war on two fronts — Detroit hitters on one side, federal agents on the other. Tank doesn't need another soldier. He needs D-Money's mind. The strategist who used to see plays three moves ahead. The cold, calculating weapon Dante swore he'd never be again.

The FBI wants him too. Agent Terrence Cole has been building a RICO case against Tank for two years. He's got leverage — old charges that never went away, threats that could put Dante back in a cage and leave Mercedes alone. All Dante has to do is wear a wire. Betray his brother. Walk away clean.

And Mercedes? She's got her own plan. Her brother Malik died on Tank's corners nine years ago, seventeen years old with a bullet in his chest. She's not going to watch the man she loves follow him into the ground. Even if saving him means destroying everything between them.

The squeeze is on.

Dante can stay clean and watch his neighborhood burn. He can flip and spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. Or he can pick up the crown Tank's offering and become the thing he spent three years running from.

But in a game where everyone wants to use him — the feds, the streets, the woman he loves — maybe the only play left is one nobody sees coming.

In Fairfax, loyalty is currency. Betrayal is a death sentence. And the only way out is through.

THE KING OF THE BLOCK — a story of blood, power, and the choices that define us. Because in Cleveland's east side, you don't get to choose whether you play the game.

You only get to choose how you survive it.