The Grit, Gamble & Grace Series
The Books
Follow Jerome "Redbone" Blake's rise and fall through Florida's underworld, from 1905 to 1935.
PREQUEL NOVELLA
the NUMBERS MAN
A Historical Crime Novella of Power, Paper, and Betrayal
Jerome Blake didn’t set out to become dangerous. He wanted stability. Order. A way to survive in Miami’s Colored Town where Black men were expendable and violence came without warning. Then he learns how the numbers really move. Drawn into Tampa’s bolita racket, Jerome discovers that power isn’t carried in guns—it’s carried in paper. Ledgers decide who eats. Records decide who disappears. And the men who control the books control everything.
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE * PAPERBACK * HARDCOVER
book one
the bolita grift
A Historical Crime Thriller of Land, Power, and Control
When Jerome "Redbone" Blake is pulled into Miami's underground bolita lottery, he tells himself it's temporary. But as land speculation explodes and political corruption tightens its grip, Jerome learns that power doesn't come from avoiding the system—it comes from mastering it. Ledgers become weapons. Alliances become traps. And every dollar earned binds him deeper to men who don't forgive failure.
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE * PAPERBACK * HARDCOVER
book TWO
the STYX AND STONES
A Historical Crime Thriller of Land, Power, and Betrayal in Jim Crow Florida
Jerome and Althea have built something real in the Styx—a neighborhood the city wants erased. As powerful men move to demolish their community and seize the land beneath it, Jerome must decide what he's willing to become to protect what they've built. Deception becomes strategy. Violence becomes currency. Every gain tightens the trap.
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE * PAPERBACK * HARDCOVER
book 2.5 - A JEROME BLAKE NOVELLA
WHAT HE KEPT
A novella set between Books Two and Three
After the destruction of the Styx, Jerome and Althea reckon with what survived and what didn't. A compressed, intimate story about what a man holds onto when everything else has been taken.
book THREE
the FIGHT OF THE CENTURY
The next chapter in Jerome and Althea's saga. More details coming soon.