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Book two in the Obie series.

The dead of Atlanta keep better records than the living.

Under a westside highway lies a burying ground the city paved in a hurry and never counted. The men beneath it were lynched on lies, leased to labor camps, and buried without names. For more than a century they have waited in the dark for the one thing every court owes the living: a hearing.

Obie Chesterfield keeps a door at the end of a dead-end road. On Sunday mornings the dead line up outside it, hats in hand, each with an ask: a name said right, a message carried, a debt called in. He shares the docket with M, who reads feelings the way other people read mail, and Q, a cat two hundred years old who has forgotten more law than the state of Georgia ever wrote.

Then the ground under the highway opens its books. Winning the oldest case in the city means facing the thing that has been harvesting its forgotten dead for a hundred years, a strange man whose offer sounds like mercy and works like theft.

The knock comes at nine. Two knocks, polite and spaced, from somebody who has waited a hundred years and can therefore wait five more seconds.

It's Sunday in Atlanta. Court is in session.

The Dirty South is Book Two of the Obie Series, which began with Colorstruck. New readers can start here. The court explains itself.

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Book One in the Obie Series

Atlanta, 1994. Obie Chesterfield has finals to study for, a best friend to run the streets with, and a face he can't stand. Blond hair and blue eyes on a Black man from southwest Atlanta. His Jamaican mother calls him special. Strangers call him other things. Obie just wants to get through the quarter without proving himself to anybody.

Then a woman with sky-blue eyes starts appearing where she shouldn't. She knows his name. She knows what he can do before he does. And she keeps calling him Obeah-man.

Something ancient is loose in the city, wearing bodies like borrowed clothes and leaving them empty when it's done. The only person who believes Obie is a girl from the Bottom who reads minds and hates every second of it. The only weapon he has is a power he never asked for, fed to him by a voice from somewhere no living man should remember.

The dead are patient. The spirits are starving. And Obie is about to learn why Obeah-men die young.

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Obie Chesterfield died on a Tuesday. It didn't take.

He's a college kid from southwest Atlanta with a smart mouth, a headful of hip hop, and a face that confuses everybody. Blond hair, blue eyes, Black man. Born to a Jamaican mother and a white father, Obie knows exactly who he is. The rest of the world keeps taking a vote. He's too light for some rooms, too loud with his Blackness for others, and tired of proving what shouldn't need proof.

Then the whispers start. Spirits older than scripture move through his city wearing borrowed faces, and the bodies they borrow don't always get returned. Something ancient walks the streets of Atlanta, hiding in plain sight, and it keeps calling Obie by a title he's never heard. Death won't hold him. Graves won't stay quiet around him. The dead lean close when he passes, like they've been waiting on somebody who could finally hear them.

Weirdness has trailed Obie his whole life like a shadow at noon. Now the shadow is talking back, and it knows his name.

Set in Black Atlanta and rooted in West Indian Obeah, this trilogy mixes supernatural horror, dark humor, racial politics with the safety off, and grown folks' business. It's a story about identity nobody can vote on, power nobody asked for, and debts nobody living remembers.

Some men inherit money. Some inherit land. Obie inherited a war.

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