BLOOD OWED: BOOK ONE - THE BALANCE
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Sheldon "Slick" Martinez-Davis walked out of court a free man.
But freedom came with a price.
$4.7 million. Twenty-three days. One debt that can't be ignored.
With his father's clock ticking, Slick is forced to balance the only life he's ever known with everything suddenly giving him a reason to leave it behind: his music, his future, the people closest to him, and a one-year-old daughter who has no idea who her father really is.
Money is moving. Loyalty is shifting. Feelings are getting complicated. And doors Slick never expected are beginning to open.
But every new opportunity comes with a question:
Can Slick become somebody different without his past collecting what it's owed?
Everybody around him has secrets.
Everybody wants something.
And Slick?
He's about to learn that some debts aren't paid in cash.
Some are paid in blood.
BLOOD OWED: BOOK ONE - THE BALANCE
The clock is ticking.
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