The Predatory Spouse - Couverture rigide

Blackman, Darius

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798182884785

Editeur : Darius Blackman Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Experience The Predatory Spouse by Darius Blackman in a full-color Illustrated Special Edition, featuring story-specific artwork, custom chapter openings, and distinctive design throughout the reading pages.

Malik Carter is learning what it means to be accountable. From the red clay of Fort Jackson to his training as an Army Unit Supply Specialist, he discovers that trust depends on attention, discipline, and the willingness to stand behind a commitment.

At his first duty station, freedom brings a different education.

A night at Club Diamond introduces him to Nia, whose presence holds his attention long after he leaves. A glance becomes a reason to return. A conversation becomes something to wait for. As her warmth and absence begin setting the rhythm of his days, Malik makes room for a connection he wants to believe in.

He wants to be loyal, dependable, and worthy of being chosen. Those intentions draw him deeper into choices whose costs are becoming harder to ignore. A move to the desert, marriage, and deployment to Iraq place new demands on a relationship already shaped by uncertainty. Calls from home reach across distance while the soldiers around him continue to depend on his work.

The discipline that gives Malik confidence on duty must now inform decisions he finds harder to face. How much of himself has he placed in another person's hands? What does responsibility require when desire keeps supplying the explanation he wants to hear?

Through direct dialogue, charged encounters, and the everyday texture of military life, Darius Blackman follows the pressure of emotional control and the struggle to recognize a pattern from inside it. Friendship, loneliness, pride, and ordinary moments of steadiness shape a story about the difficult relationship between commitment and self-respect.

THIS ILLUSTRATED SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDES:

Full-color artwork grounded in the novel's scenes and settings.

Custom chapter treatments and changing palettes inspired by training, military working life, nightlife, and the desert.

Illustrated details and image bands integrated into designed reading pages.

Selected passages given larger typographic treatment within the narrative.

The complete novel across forty-two chapters and an epilogue in a 6 x 9 hardcover presentation.

For readers of military relationship drama, psychological fiction, and coming-of-age stories, The Predatory Spouse offers a close view of a young soldier learning to weigh the commitments that shape his life. This Illustrated Special Edition carries that journey into a full-color reading experience created around the story's own atmosphere.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

A young Army soldier confronts desire, manipulation, and the cost of misplaced loyalty. Darius Blackman's The Predatory Spouse returns in a full-color Illustrated Special Edition with story-specific artwork and distinctive page design.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Darius Blackman Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798182884785
• Reliure: Tapa dura
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible