Faheem Mujahid finally has it all. The wife who rode for him through everything. A daughter who lights up when he walks through the door. A clean life, built four hours and a whole world away from the streets that made him. Then Jin Wu comes calling with an offer wrapped around a threat: six months of Faheem's genius running an empire's money through systems only he can build - and only he can hide. Six months, and his family never has to know the man they call Black. But six months is a long time to live two lives. Long enough for a daughter to start marking the days her daddy's been gone.

Long enough for a wife to find a notebook that tells her everything. And Jaz Mujahid doesn't fall apart. She gets dressed, drives into her man's other world, and walks through the door of his club like she owns it. Meanwhile, Kaylin and Angel Santos are toasting ten years and building Game Over Records into a dynasty - until their son Malik goes running toward the same fire his father crawled out of. The Santos family survived the streets. Now they have to survive success. Jin Wu made one mistake when he put Faheem in a cage. He forgot who built it.

Freedom isn't given. It's taken. This is A Thug's Independence.