"If I respect you, we unify and stop the enemy from killing us. But I don't know... I'm no mortal man—maybe I'm just another nigga." — Kendrick Lamar

Those words don’t just echo in Dominicus “Preach” Hood’s mind—they possess him.
Because in Gary, Indiana—the graveyard of dreams and birthplace of Black rage—being mortal is not safe, and being righteous is not easy.

To the world, Gary is just another rusted city left to rot.
But to Preach, it’s the new-age Slave Quarters, run by a different kind of master—badges, bankers, and broken systems.
And the day they murdered his father—Sabbath “Pops” Hood, a street prophet and rebel with sacred blood—was the day Preach stopped believing in salvation.

Now? He don’t preach.
He poisons.

He moves pain the same way America sold it to his people—legal, lethal, and laced in deception.
Opioids. Scripts. Syringes.
But beneath the Rolex and the six-figure life, his soul stays screaming.
Yahweh’s still whispering.
And the devil’s still dealing.

Preach is at war with the world. But worse—he’s at war with himself.

And while his demons whisper, the throne his father died for is still waiting.
The streets are stirring.
Blood is boiling.
And the empire is cracking.

But behind every Black king is a woman either building the kingdom or burning it down.

Veronica Hood—his wife, his peace, his penance—is tired of playing perfect.
Born into the Black Church elite, bred to carry grace like a crown, she’s suffocating beneath expectations and secrets.
Temptation doesn’t knock—it walks in.
And betrayal is not always loud… Sometimes it comes dressed in healing.

Now the walls are closing in.
Old ghosts rise.
New devil's dance.
And Dominicus has one last shot to reclaim his purpose… or destroy everything sacred.

Kill the flesh… or let the flesh kill you.

“When God prepares you for greatness, the Devil prepares your flesh. Wisdom is knowing God's plan includes the Devil”.
— Black Sabbath aka Pops Hood

MORTAL MAN is the raw, revolutionary first book in the Ghetto Gospel Series.
It’s a soul-splitting saga of rage, redemption, and spiritual warfare, where the hood meets the holy, and the streets are a battlefield for the soul.

If you’ve ever questioned your calling, felt the fire of injustice in your blood, or wrestled with God in the dark—this ain’t just a book.
It’s your mirror.