Experience the Authentic Pulse of City Life.

From Trap House Baby's street-level survival to Shepherd's Shadow's church corruption to Blood on the Block's twenty-year reckoning, Author TARU examines how power hides behind good intentions. Not every book is street lit. All of them are true.

Cleveland's East Side will chew you up and spit you out. Marcus Johnson was about to get swallowed whole.

East 105th and St. Clair. Four years on the corner. Four years of watching dreams die slow, watching good people make bad choices, watching the city eat its young.

Marcus swore he'd be different. He was smart. He was disciplined. He was going to get out the right way.

Then his mama's heart gave out. The eviction notice came. His sister's college dreams turned to ash. And Tommy—his brother from another mother—offered him the devil's deal.

Work for Big V. Collect the debts. Make the money. Save the family.

It was supposed to be temporary. Just until things got better. But the streets don't let you go. They pull you deeper. They change you. They give you a taste of power, of respect, of the kind of money that makes problems disappear.

Marcus discovered he had a gift. The Cold—the ability to shut off his conscience and become something inhuman. Something efficient. Something terrifying.

Big V saw a son. Tommy saw a rival. Diamond—the beautiful, untouchable woman Marcus fell for—saw a lie.

Because Diamond was Big V's daughter. And when she discovered the truth, Marcus's world exploded.

His best friend betrayed him. The feds arrested him. The woman he loved cursed his name. And Detective Chen offered him one way out—wear a wire and bring down the kingdom.

In Cleveland, loyalty is everything. Until it's nothing.

Marcus made his choice. The kingdom fell. The bodies stacked. And when the smoke cleared, Marcus was a ghost—buried in witness protection while his betrayer became the king.

But ghosts have a way of coming back. And Marcus Johnson just got a letter that changes everything.

A brutal, authentic street saga about the cost of survival and the price of revenge. Blood ON THE BLOCK introduces a new voice in urban fiction—raw, relentless, and real.

When you sell your soul, you better get a receipt. Because eventually, the devil comes to collect.