Dark Alley To Power

2026 INCIPERE AWARDS presented by Entrada Publishing*****1st Place in Literary Fiction

In South Carolina, power isn’t won on the debate stage. It’s bought, bartered, and bled for behind closed doors.
Yvette Tyson is an underdog candidate with a burning grudge, a gift for the microphone, and a hunger for the governor’s mansion that won’t be denied. Cory Logan is a retired boxing icon and the only man who can deliver the votes she needs. He believes he’s controlling the campaign until a wrecked pickup, a dangerous secret, and a desperate governor’s son collide with their carefully staged rise.

As favors turn into leverage and leverage turns into blackmail, Yvette’s campaign becomes a maze that runs through prisons, backrooms, and the polished halls of state government. Every deal she makes brings her closer to victory…and closer to the moment someone decides she’s worth more dead than elected.

In the race for power, the dirtiest hands win.