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Elijah Taylor, better known as Bishop, has spent his life surviving bullets, betrayal, and the kind of violence that turns men into ghosts. Quiet never meant peaceful. It meant he was listening, waiting, and deciding who needed to disappear next.
Now that Saint has stepped down, Bishop sits at the head of the Johnson Mafia with power in one hand and war in the other. New enemies are testing his name. Old ones are crawling out the dirt. Everybody wants a piece of the throne.
But Bishop has never been the type to share.
A sit-down at a strip club is supposed to be business-money, weight, and warnings. Instead, Bishop runs into the woman he hasn't been able to forget since the day he bumped into her at the hospital.
Jream Ellis has been fighting her whole life, too. Raised in a broken home with a mother who never let her breathe, forced into motherhood young, and left with nothing but her body, her hustle, and her son to protect, Jream dances because survival doesn't care about pride.
Her plan was simple: stack enough money to run.
Until the father of her son dragged her right back under his control.
Cold, abusive, and dangerous, he uses their child as a leash, keeps eyes on her every move, and forces her to work for the same man she hates. Jream knows what happens to women who try to leave men like him.
Then Bishop sees her again.
And Bishop doesn't bow to wannabe kingpins. He buries them.
Jream is trapped in a world built to break her, but the most dangerous man in the city just made her his business. And once Bishop chooses violence in her name, nobody watching her will be safe.