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Quiet Title Book Two of the Ledger City Series
Paperback
Series: Ledger City, Book 2
Publisher: Darius Blackman
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They called the heirs unknown.
The record knew better.
In Quiet Title, the second book of the Ledger City Series, Darius Blackman pulls readers into a courthouse mystery where property theft does not look like theft at first. It looks like procedure.
Lydia Shaw has spent years in public records, long enough to know that honest paperwork usually carries the marks of real life. But when a stack of quiet title files lands on her desk too clean, too repeated, and too polished to be trusted, she starts seeing the pattern.
Different families. Different blocks. Same legal language.
Homes that were paid for. Families that still existed. Heirs described as unknown. Notices handled just badly enough to become useful. And behind the filings, a capital network learning how to turn grief, probate confusion, and owner fatigue into possession.
When Lydia discovers that the dead did not sell and the living were never truly searched for, she sends the evidence to someone who knows how to make institutions answer in public.
Quiet Title is a legal and civic suspense novel about heirs' property, probate pressure, stolen homes, public records, Black family memory, and the quiet machinery that turns ownership into opportunity for someone else.
In Ledger City, the theft does not need to be loud.
It only needs a clean file.
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