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My Brother's Keeper
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some brothers are bound by blood. Others are bound by the secrets they can never outrun.
After losing ten years of his life behind bars, Ben Mervil returns to Southside Jamaica, Queens at twenty-seven determined to leave the streets... and the boy that he used to be... behind, but home has changed while he was gone, and Ben quickly discovers that freedom doesn't mean much when the past is still waiting outside the gate.
Ben Mervil went to prison at seventeen and came home ten years later carrying the scars of a decision that cost him his youth, determined not to let those lost years decide the rest of his life.
Shamar Muhammad escaped the consequences that swallowed Ben and used those same ten years to transform himself from a neighborhood kid into a feared and powerful street figure, but power has a way of changing what brotherhood means.
Destiny spent Ben's incarceration living with choices and secrets that could destroy the relationship waiting for him when he came home.
Ben wants peace, but the streets remember something else. Old loyalties begin feeling like debts, love becomes harder to separate from betrayal and the people Ben once would've died for may be the same people who force him to decide what kind of man prison actually sent home because if Ben can't break free from the loyalty, anger, and history connecting him to Shamar, he risks losing more than his freedom this time... he could lose the last pieces of himself that ten years behind bars couldn't take.
How far would you go for someone you once called your brother... after discovering they didn't protect you when you needed them most?
My Brother's Keeper is a gritty story of brotherhood, betrayal, love, loyalty, redemption, and the dangerous difference between coming home and actually being free.
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