Stacks: Money & Blood, Part 1: Homecoming

Stacks, Book 1

By: Keelan Reid

Narrated by: Victoria Rojas

Twenty years ago, Carter “Stacks” Coleman was torn from the only home he ever knew. His father sent him across the ocean to London, chasing a clean life and leaving his little sister behind in the streets of Los Angeles. Carter never forgave him for that.

Now he’s back — a soldier fresh off a foreign war, carrying ghosts in his chest and scars on his soul. The city that raised him has changed: the Mob’s fallen apart, the Cartel runs half the corners, and the other half bleeds for scraps. The codes are gone, the loyalty’s fake, and the name “Coleman” don’t mean what it used to.

But Carter didn’t come home for the streets — he came for his sister. The only piece of family he’s got left.

To find her, he’s got to rebuild what his blood destroyed. That means taking back territory, crossing old friends turned enemies, and waging war on every crew that stands between him and the truth.

What starts as a search turns into a reckoning. Every move he makes drags him deeper into a city built on betrayal — a city that remembers him just as much as it fears him.

Carter came back looking for peace.

But in the City of Angels, there’s no such thing.

There’s only power. And power demands blood

©2025 Keelan Stanley-Reid (P)2026 Keelan Stanley-Reid