Iron Libri GmbH Iron in the Floor Paperback

Some debts don't die. They wait.In 1853, an enslaved woman named Celia drove six iron nails into the floorboards of a Georgia plantation house - a curse laid the only way she had left to fight back, the night before her daughter was sold away. A hundred and seventy years later, those nails are still there. And Luther Moseley just recognized them for exactly what they are.Luther built an empire from nothing - three trucks and a prayer, grown into one of Atlanta's most respected Black-owned companies. When old-money scion Garrison Harbinger offers him a merger, Luther walks the property, sees six hand-forged nails hidden in the corner office floor, and walks straight back out without a word. Six months later, at a lunch meant to smooth things over, he's poisoned in front of a room full of witnesses - and falls into a coma the doctors can't explain, because what's killing him was never in the food.Now his children have to fight a war on two fronts at once.Yvonne Moseley is a rising attorney who's spent her life being the perfect one, the one who holds it together - and she's about to bury the Harbinger empire in exactly the kind of documentation a courtroom can't ignore. Her younger brother Dice runs the family's other business, the one nobody puts on letterhead, and he's ready to burn Atlanta down to save his father. But the deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes: this isn't just corporate sabotage. It's a hundred-and-seventy-year-old curse, still hungry, still counting what it's owed - and the man Garrison hired to weaponize it, a rootworker from the North Georgia mountains, has spent his whole life bleeding for power he was taught to believe was his birthright.Iron in the Floor pulls together a street-smart pawnbroker awakening to a gift he's spent thirty years running from, a fierce Louisiana conjure woman carrying her ancestor's unfinished business, a dying rootworker who has armed the Moseleys with everything she knows, and a family that refuses to be the latest chapter in somebody else's inheritance of cruelty.Rich with real Hoodoo tradition, unflinching about the history it's built on, and propulsive as a thriller ought to be, this is a novel about what gets passed down in families - the strength and the wounds both - and what it costs to finally settle a debt nobody living actually agreed to.