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The Debt Comes Due
Paperback
Series: Motor City Sins, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The past has been waiting. Now it wants to be paid.
In Detroit, old debts do not disappear simply because the people who created them are gone. After years of secrets, betrayals, buried records, and dangerous alliances, Tiff and Antonio are finally close to understanding the system that shaped their families long before they were old enough to recognize it.
Then Antonio's father, Andre Lamar, returns.
His disappearance was never as simple as abandonment, and the truth he carries reaches far beyond one family. Andre knows how the Bishops gained their power, how debts traveled across cities and generations, and why Tiff's father paid the ultimate price. But his return also forces Antonio to confront something more personal: a father who stayed away while watching his son grow up from a distance.
As Tiff digs deeper, she discovers that her own father's history is more complicated than the heroic version she wanted to believe. Denise has secrets of her own. Celeste knew more than she admitted. And the system everyone blamed on powerful men called Bishops began as something very different-Black families pooling resources, protecting businesses, buying property, and helping one another survive when traditional institutions refused to help them.
Somewhere along the way, protection became control. Help became obligation. Obligation became debt.
Now the entire structure is beginning to collapse.
With investigations closing in, loyalties shifting, and long-hidden records coming into the light, Tiff and Antonio must decide what deserves to be preserved, what must finally be destroyed, and whether knowing the truth can free a family from an inheritance it never asked for.
Because eventually every secret is collected.
Every choice leaves a balance.
And the debt comes due.
The Debt Comes Due is Book Five of the Motor City Sins Series, a gripping story of family, crime, love, power, betrayal, Black legacy, and the generational consequences of the choices people make to survive.
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