$8 — Hope After Dark: Oakland Moon, Book One
Begin the Oakland Moon series with an adult Black romance and supernatural suspense story set in Oakland. When Dr. Candice Monroe visits Club Hope, she encounters dangerous secrets involving desire, power, money, and hidden records. Digital e-book by Darius Blackman; no physical item ships. Read the first chapter free...
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A Man With Direction
A man can be busy and still be lost. He can work hard, show up every day, and still have no clear plan for where his life is going. A Man With Direction is for men who are ready to stop drifting and start moving with purpose. Darius Blackman challenges men to get clear, get focused, and build a life guided by discipline, intention, responsibility, and standards. This book is not about pretending everything is together. It is about admitting where direction is missing and deciding to become the kind of man who moves with purpose instead of impulse. Stop drifting. Get focused. Move with direction.
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After the Wire: The Predatory Spouse Series - Book 5
The wire was supposed to mark the boundary between danger and safety. But some battles follow you home. After the Wire brings The Predatory Spouse Series into its next stage with a story of survival, protection, emotional fallout, and the fight to build a life after everything that came before. A new city offers new chances, but it also brings new threats, old wounds, and the reality that peace must be defended. This fifth book is about what happens after toxic love, after trauma, after distance, and after survival. It is about the people who keep moving, keep protecting, and keep fighting for themselves and those they refuse to lose. Dark, emotional, and driven by consequence, After the Wire is for readers who want domestic suspense, military-flavored drama, psychological tension, and stories about survival after the breaking point.
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Built for Pressure
Pressure reveals the man. It shows whether he panics, folds, blames, runs, or stands firm when life demands more from him. Built for Pressure is for men who want to stay calm when stress rises, finish strong when things get hard, and hold the line when people are depending on them. Written from lessons shaped by Army leadership and real-life responsibility, Darius Blackman challenges men to build emotional control, mental toughness, endurance, and discipline under stress. This is not about acting hard. It is about becoming steady. Because when pressure comes, your excuses will not matter. Stay calm. Finish strong. Hold the line.
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A World We Cannot Eat
They can share a station, a mission, and a dangerous attraction. They cannot share food, medicine, microbes, or unprotected touch. When a coupled systems failure traps twenty-one adults between two biologically incompatible habitats, xenobiochemist Lenora Quinn and nonhuman treaty architect Tarei Ninefold have fifty-two hours to build a temporary bridge between mirror-image biologies. Lenora hid the anomaly that might have changed the test. Tarei wrote the law that will sacrifice the trapped to protect two worlds. Saving nineteen lives will require them to trust a chemistry neither government owns—and to decide whether a boundary can become the most intimate thing between them.
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Blood Over Oakland
Nia Carter knows what a deed can prove, what a court can stop, and how easily powerful people bury theft beneath respectable paper. What she does not know is why her grandmother left her an Oakland house that changes its own records—or why an immortal man has been chained beneath it for generations. Malachi is bound to the Carter bloodline by an oath written through violence, protection, and a century of edited history. Freeing him should be simple. Trusting him is not. The family record says he murdered seven Carter women. His scars say the same family made his body answer every command. Before Nia can decide what he is, developer Ezra Saint begins acquiring the properties connected to the house, turning forged claims and old magic into a weapon that can erase people from their homes—and from memory itself.
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A Treaty For The Unborn
The treaty is authentic. Everyone who signed it is dead. The people forced to honor it are still alive. The Shared Passage Compact once kept three distant habitats connected. It also bound workers, machines, and future officeholders to obligations they never accepted. Now the beam corridor is failing, its scheduled shutdown is approaching, and Common Measure needs that same corridor to survive its thirteen-year journey to Lattice Reach. At Mercy, physicist Rhea Maddox builds a phase network in which local operators can refuse dangerous loads without surrendering rescue. Aboard Common Measure, her husband Julian endures sustained acceleration, a damaged body, and negotiations conducted through records that outlive the people who made them. Each reply arrives from an earlier officeholder. Each solution risks becoming the next inherited command.
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Captain Clean-Up and the Trash That Talked Back
Captain Clean-Up and the Trash That Talked Back is a full-color graphic early reader for children ages five through eight. It combines the forward motion of a superhero comedy with the emotional truth of a child trying to hide an unfinished mistake. The story is designed for independent early readers, supported reading, classroom use, family read-alouds, and repeat visual discovery. Its environmental ideas are carried by character decisions and comic action, not by a detached lecture. At the center of the book is a simple question children understand immediately: when something looks broken, unwanted, or out of place, is throwing it away really the only answer? Eight-year-old Malcolm Price is imaginative, energetic, and certain that his messy bedroom is not a mess at all. It is Captain Clean-Up Headquarters, a place where inventions are waiting, plans are forming, and every object might become part of a future mission.
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CDL Without the Noise: Pass the Test, Avoid Restrictions, and Start Smart
Getting your CDL should not feel like trying to decode a system built to confuse you. CDL -WITHOUT THE- NOISE: Pass the Test, Avoid Restrictions, and Start Smart is a direct, practical guide for new drivers who want clear guidance without unnecessary confusion, wasted time, or bad information. This book is for people who are serious about passing the test, understanding the process, avoiding preventable restrictions, and starting their driving career with a better foundation. It strips away the noise and focuses on what matters: preparation, discipline, test awareness, smart decisions, and knowing what questions to ask before you make costly mistakes. Whether you are just beginning your CDL journey or trying to understand what separates prepared drivers from frustrated ones, this guide gives you a clearer path forward. No fluff. No confusion. Just practical direction for people ready to start smart.
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Commonline: Book Four of the Ledger City Series
The route was chosen before the people were warned. In Commonline, the fourth book of the Ledger City Series, Darius Blackman exposes the language of infrastructure, climate resilience, public necessity, and utility access as a new battlefield for displacement. Raina Bell works inside Commonline Infrastructure Partners, where public-private planning is wrapped in clean language and civic polish. But late one night, she discovers a confidential corridor package that reveals the truth behind the route. Parcels have already been scored. Neighborhoods have already been softened. Churches, elders, family-transfer problems, litigation appetite, and “trusted-home clusters” have already been mapped. Flood language and resilience language are being used to prepare people to accept loss before anyone calls it acquisition.
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Crown After Midnight: Oakland Moon, Book Two
A crown is not always an honor. Sometimes it is a demand. Crown After Midnight: Oakland Moon, Book Two by Darius Blackman continues the Oakland Moon saga in the hours after Hope changed everything. Roman Greer and Dr. Candice Monroe are no longer standing in the same dark room they survived. Now the road leads north, toward Sacramento, Crown House, dangerous inheritance, family blood, old witnesses, public pressure, supernatural records, and a crown that refuses to stay buried. Roman is trying to leave the throne behind. Candice is refusing to let love become ownership. But Crown House knows how to make control sound like protection, how to turn repair into a trap, and how to offer power to the wounded until obedience looks like healing.
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Custody Chain: Book Five of the Ledger City Series
The warehouse said logistics. The records said custody. In Custody Chain, Darius Blackman returns to Ledger City with a novel about labor, public contracts, reentry, carceral control, and the hidden systems that keep people moving through institutions long after they are supposed to be free. Leon Vale needs the warehouse job to be a step forward. Recently out of county custody, carrying debt, family responsibility, and the hope of rebuilding his life, he accepts work at Meridian Civic Logistics under the language of community supervision, transitional work, and public-service rehabilitation. Then Junie Bell shows him the wrong form. It is not a shipping manifest. It is a chain-of-custody log. And it does not track goods. It tracks people. As Leon begins to understand that workers are being moved through public contracts like inventory, Meridian’s connection to institutional power becomes impossible to ignore. Gray vans. Hidden routes. Intake codes.
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Debt Ward: Book Six of the Ledger City Series
The hospital called it care. The paperwork called him a ward. In Debt Ward, Darius Blackman brings Ledger City into the medical, legal, and financial machinery that turns vulnerability into control. Clarence Carver arrives at St. Adelard Medical Center as a patient. But after midnight, inside ordinary rooms filled with official language and quiet pressure, his status begins to change. A billing hold becomes an emergency guardianship review. A family member is asked to wait outside. A consent tablet records more than anyone can explain. A signature appears before the daughter is called. By the time the elevator doors close, Clarence is no longer being treated like a person. He is being processed as a ward. Javon Mercer and Selah Cade begin following the paper trail through medical billing, guardianship authority, probate pressure, debt buying, charity wings, capacity hearings, family deferral, and the quiet conversion of care into custody.
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