BLACKOUT ON SEVEN MILE

On Seven Mile, everybody has a price. The real danger begins when someone decides to collect. Marcellus "Rell" Maddox built The Black Orchid into one of Detroit's most powerful nightclubs. Behind the purple lights, expensive liquor, and packed dance floor, the club hides drug money, fraudulent companies, corrupt police payments, and a criminal system built on people too desperate to refuse him. Then Rell sends DeAndre "Dre" Cole on a simple delivery.
Dre never comes home. As Detective Omari Cole searches for his missing cousin, Rell faces pressure from a ruthless supplier, a bitter rival, federal investigators, and Sergeant Lionel Graves-a corrupt officer who has been selling information to every side. Inside The Black Orchid, Rell's wife, Nia, discovers that dancers and employees have been used as legal shields for the organization. Their identities, credit, and futures have been placed behind accounts holding hundreds of thousands of dollars.
When the club's anniversary night approaches, every hidden alliance begins to collapse. Rival crews, corrupt officers, federal agents, frightened employees, and armed criminals move toward the same building. Then the power goes out. The doors lock. And in the darkness, no one knows who fired first. Blackout on Seven Mile is a gritty Detroit crime thriller about corruption, betrayal, marriage, exploitation, and the devastating consequences of treating people like pieces in a business system.