{"product_id":"ledger-line-book-one-of-the-ledger-city-series","title":"Ledger Line Book One of the Ledger City Series","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1228\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1228\"\u003eThe first body was not the crime.\u003cbr data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1207\"\u003eIt was the warning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1598\"\u003eIn \u003cstrong data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1250\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1248\"\u003eLedger Line\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, the first book of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1296\"\u003eLedger City Series\u003c\/strong\u003e, Darius Blackman introduces readers to a city where corruption does not always come through violence. Sometimes it comes through donation reports, church-backed housing funds, shell companies, development language, missing records, and public servants who know how to make theft look like restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1600\" data-end=\"1645\"\u003eMicah Mercer knows the numbers do not add up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"2108\"\u003eA church-backed housing fund is supposed to be saving the neighborhood, but the paperwork tells a different story. Donation amounts match parcel balances. “Community restoration grants” move through accounts created weeks before property transfers close. Tax delinquencies vanish just before homes change hands. Every line Micah follows leads him back to the same circle of power: a councilman, a developer, and a bishop trusted by the very people being erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2187\"\u003eBefore Micah can bring the truth into the open, he records one final warning:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2250\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2250\"\u003eIf this reaches you, do not let them call it an accident.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2252\" data-end=\"2504\"\u003eWhen the evidence reaches those willing to follow it, \u003cstrong data-start=\"2306\" data-end=\"2322\"\u003eJavon Mercer\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-start=\"2327\" data-end=\"2341\"\u003eSelah Cade\u003c\/strong\u003e are pulled into a paper trail built from grief, church trust, public money, private development, and a parcel number that may unlock the entire machine: \u003cstrong data-start=\"2495\" data-end=\"2503\"\u003e14-B\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2506\" data-end=\"2705\"\u003eWhat begins as a suspicious death becomes a larger investigation into how neighborhoods are bought, softened, framed, and renamed before the people inside them understand what has already been taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2707\" data-end=\"2907\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2707\" data-end=\"2724\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"2709\" data-end=\"2722\"\u003eLedger Line\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a civic suspense novel about corruption, Black neighborhood memory, church power, housing theft, public trust, family grief, and the dangerous truth hidden inside clean paperwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2909\" data-end=\"2972\"\u003eIn Ledger City, the question is never just who signed the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2974\" data-end=\"3015\"\u003eThe question is who paid for the silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Darius Blackman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44167148765220,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/9986\/5124\/files\/LedgerLineCover.jpg?v=1778347766","url":"https:\/\/dariusblackmanpublishing.com\/products\/ledger-line-book-one-of-the-ledger-city-series","provider":"Darius Blackman Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}