Made And Marked

They called themselves the Ashton Family-kings of small-town Kentucky, running booze, guns, and the kind of loyalty you don't walk away from alive. Adrean "AJ" Johnson was one of their own. A soldier. A brother. A made man.

But when power turns to paranoia and brotherhood to betrayal, AJ is forced to make a choice: die with the family or disappear. Years later, under a new name and a Florida sun that can't bleach out bloodstains, AJ thinks he's free-until a face from the past walks up on the sand.

Told through the tension of a courtroom confession and the smoldering ashes of a life lived in shadows, Made and Marked is a Southern noir story of loyalty, loss, and the high price of survival. In this world, no sin stays buried. No name stays clean. And some families? You never really leave.