The Kingdom Universe
One City. Two Banks. Six Books. One Story.
The Kingdom is the core saga. Westside moves alongside it—two connected trilogies revealing different sides of the same New Orleans universe.
The Core Saga
The Kingdom Trilogy
Across the water, a deckhand's son built himself into a god and an empire to match. When the crown finally comes into play, the war for it will burn through everyone who ever answered to the name King.
Book One
The Kingdom
The empire, and the cracks in it.
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The Connected Trilogy
The Westside Trilogy
A man comes home from seven years in a cell for a killing that was never his hand, and walks straight back into the only world that ever claimed him. What he builds on the Westside—and what it costs to hold it—is the spine of these three books.
Book One
Westside
The homecoming.
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Two Trilogies. One Universe.
The Kingdom and Westside unfold in the same city, their stories connected by blood, power, loyalty, and consequence.
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Choose your side of the city and step into the story.