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Concrete Crowns
Paperback
Series: The North Side, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: 414 Press
Published: Apr 14 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Darius Mitchell runs the North Side like he owns it. At twenty-two, he controls supply lines, territory, and the respect of every dealer and hustler from 16th Street to the expressway. He's good at it-clean operations, smart money, people who know better than to cross him. The economics are simple: product in, money out, problems eliminated. The structure is airtight.
But the North Side is changing. New players coming in from out of town. Federal attention circling closer. And Darius's crew is fracturing in ways he can't control. His main lieutenant is getting ambitious. His younger cousin is getting reckless. His supply is getting compromised. And a woman from his past-someone he loved before the game hardened both of them-has come back with knowledge that could destroy everything he's built.
Darius understands two economies: the street and the soul. One is calculated and explainable. The other isn't. Concrete Crowns is a story about a man who's mastered one system and is beginning to see the cost of ignoring the other.
For readers who know that street fiction at its best is about character, consequence, and the terrible mathematics of survival. Concrete Crowns is urban fiction that refuses to simplify-that recognizes intelligence, humor, loyalty, and ruthlessness can all exist in the same person, the same decision, the same moment.
Book 1 of The North Side Series.
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