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Balance Due
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: African Cultural Heritage Hub
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At sixty-seven, retired history teacher Alfred Ackron expects aging to bring slower mornings, family visits, and time to write the story of his mother's people. Instead, he finds himself surrounded by medical bills, insurance portals, retirement advisers, senior-living seminars, targeted advertisements, and polished strangers eager to sell him peace of mind.
Then Alfred discovers that Marcus, his oldest friend, has nearly disappeared beneath the shame of a devastating hospital debt and an insurance policy that was never what it seemed. What begins as one man's private reckoning becomes a search for evidence - and a quiet campaign to expose a system that profits from fear, confusion, and isolation.
With the help of his family, neighbors, a church support group, and unlikely allies working inside the very institutions he distrusts, Alfred learns that dignity is not preserved by refusing help. It survives when people tell the truth, compare notes, and refuse to let one another disappear.
Set in contemporary Atlanta, Balance Due is a warm, sharply observed novel about aging, medical debt, family, friendship, resilience, and the difference between the price placed on a life and its true worth. Moving, humorous, and quietly defiant, it asks a vital question: when everything has a cost, what remains beyond calculation?
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