Harbridge

Five years in prison taught Yosef Porter how to survive inside. Harbridge is about to show him what survival costs on the outside. At twenty-one, Yosef comes home to a city that remembers exactly who he was when he left. Auntie Kim offers him a place to start over. Demetrius "Demi" King-his closest friend and a rising force inside Prime Circle-offers him a faster way forward. It begins with a phone, a car, and a few simple deliveries. Soon Yosef is moving through a criminal system designed to make obligation feel like freedom. Then he meets Lanea Vega, an artist and dancer who refuses to mistake secrecy for protection. As violence closes in, old wounds reopen, and every favor carries a price, Yosef must decide what freedom actually means-and what kind of man he is willing to become to keep it. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Harbridge is Book One of a crime series about brotherhood, desire, power, and the cost of coming home.