A cop doesn't have to shed blood to rip a Black family apart. He has the courts.

When a school fight leaves a white student gravely injured, seventeen-year-old Tyrene Horn is thrust into a maelstrom of vengeance, racism, and power. The injured boy's father, a veteran police officer, is determined to destroy Tyrene's life, and he finds an ally in another officer whose white supremacist beliefs run deep. Meanwhile, the chief prosecutor, nursing a personal vendetta against Tyrene's defense attorney, sees the case as a chance for retribution.

Tyrene's mother, Patricia, knows how easily a young Black life can be lost in a system where truth matters less than who wins and who pays. She survived that system once. She will not let it take her son, and she will not fight alone.

Her allies are as unlikely as they come. A killer who works in the shadows opens her purse strings to protect the family. A spirit-touched childhood friend risks playing detective, chasing evidence that could shatter the prosecution's case.

And something else is stirring. Something beautiful, something sacred, older than any law written by human hands, is stepping into the present.

Some reckonings demand more than human justice. Some wrongs demand more than a courtroom can provide.

The Fourth Cross is a gripping drama of systemic injustice, a mother's fierce resolve, and a reckoning that will not be denied.

Perfect for fans of Attica Locke's Black Water Rising**, the legal thrillers of Scott Turow, and the spirit-haunted fiction of Toni Morrison.**

The Fourth Cross

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