Load Bearing

A Detective. A Dead Father. A Decision That Can't Be Undone.

Detective Decker has spent his career building walls. Thirty-seven narcotics arrests in fourteen months. A close rate above ninety percent. A reputation for thinking like an operator, not a badge-chaser. He built himself carefully, deliberately, out of everything he refused to become. And at the center of that construction, never spoken, never fully examined, is a man named Marcus Decker — his father. An addict. Dead at thirty-nine...