Black Gold

Lysandra Whitfield grew up believing her father's Harlem tailor shop was the whole of her inheritance — honest work, careful hands, a name built one customer at a time. Then three respectable men destroy everything Cassius Whitfield spent twenty-two years building: a predatory real-estate deal becomes a bank foreclosure, a courtroom performance, and finally a prison death no institution intends to answer for.

Her father's last secret leads Lysandra to Black Gold, an impossible club hidden beyond a mountain road — a house of elegant hospitality, ancient blood, and a ledger that remembers the crimes respectable society calls business. There she discovers what Cassius fled, what he left inside her, and the discipline required to turn grief into judgment without surrendering to appetite.

Years later, three gold-sealed invitations bring the men responsible for her father's ruin beneath the same roof. But when the reckoning begins, Lysandra must decide whether justice is measured by the guilty person she catches — or the innocent person she refuses to sacrifice.

171 pages · 5.5" x 8.5" · Also available as an instant e-book and a narrated audiobook.

Adapted from Black Gold, free to watch in full.