The Grit, Gamble & Grace Series

THE BOOKS

Follow Jerome "Redbone" Blake's rise and fall through
Florida's underworld, from 1905 to 1935.

The Black Constable
OCTOBER 6, 2026

BOOK FOUR

The Black Constable

A Historical Crime Thriller: 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.

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The Numbers Man

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.

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The Bolita Grift

BOOK ONE

The Bolita Grift

A Historical Crime Thriller: Survival Is A Numbers Game

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.

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The Styx and Stones

BOOK TWO

The Styx and Stones

A Historical Crime Thriller: Blood Runs Thicker Than Law

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.

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What He Kept

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.

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The Fight of the Century
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BOOK THREE

The Fight of the Century

A Historical Crime Thriller: Power doesn't fall. It's taken.

Three schemes to destroy the Klan. One heavyweight fight to light the fuse. In early 1900s Florida, a shadow king bets everything on a ledger, a lie, and a boxer the whole country is watching.

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A FLORIDA CRIME SAGA

Grit, Gamble & Grace spans thirty years of ambition, betrayal, and survival in early 1900s Florida. More titles are on the way. Join the newsletter and you'll be the first to know when the next book lands.

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