The Grit, Gamble & Grace Series · Book Four

OCTOBER 6, 2026

THE BLACK CONSTABLE

A badge is a loaded gun, and somebody else owns it.

Palm Beach County pins a badge on its first Black constable and calls it progress. Robert Jakes knows better. The men who handed it to him expect it back pointed where they choose — and the one man who could tell him what it costs is the one he cannot ask. A story about what a town gives a man so it can own him.