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Concrete Thrones: Crowns Are Public. Thrones Are Hidden.
Paperback
Series: Concrete, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 9 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
CONCRETE THRONES
Power does not always rise in public. Sometimes, it is chosen behind closed doors.
After the events of Concrete Crowns, Detective Winter Emerald Amor Schuler believes she has seen the highest levels of corruption in New York City. But when elite power brokers begin turning up dead, staged with cracked crowns, chess pieces, ink-stained hands, and sealed documents, Winter realizes this new case is not about rulers. It is about the people who create them.
The killer, known as The Kingmaker, is targeting the architects of corrupt power: image makers, legal protectors, financial planners, youth-program founders, and gatekeepers who decide which children are prepared for influence and which ones are erased from the path. As Winter follows the clues, the case pulls her back into Legacy Heights Academy, where the children of the Five Families are not just students. They are heirs being watched, ranked, and shaped for a future they did not choose.
For Isaac Schuler, the danger becomes personal. Invited into elite leadership circles, he begins seeing the system from the inside. The Five Family heirs are trained for politics, law, media, land, and enforcement, while hidden forces test their loyalty, obedience, and usefulness. But Isaac is different. He watches back. And the more he learns, the more the people above the crowns begin watching him.
As the Love Ledger opens further, Winter discovers the Five Families are not the top of the empire. Above them sit the hidden rulers known as the Thrones, powerful figures who control money, media, law, security, and social access from the shadows. But the most dangerous truth is not only about the city. It is about Winter's own bloodline.
With Damen standing beside her, her children caught near a system built to control futures, and a killer exposing the empire through death, Winter must face a terrifying question: who really chooses power, and what happens when a family refuses to be owned by it?
In Concrete Thrones, the crowns crack, the hidden rulers are named, and the Love Ledger leaves Winter with the line that changes everything:
If this is open, Marcus is dead.
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