After the Wire Book Five of The Predatory Spouse Series - Softcover

Blackman, Darius

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235414235

Publisher: Darius Blackman, 2026

Synopsis

The wire was supposed to mark the boundary between danger and safety.

But some battles follow you home.

After the Wire brings The Predatory Spouse Series into its next stage with a story of survival, protection, emotional fallout, and the fight to build a life after everything that came before. A new city offers new chances, but it also brings new threats, old wounds, and the reality that peace must be defended.

This fifth book is about what happens after toxic love, after trauma, after distance, and after survival. It is about the people who keep moving, keep protecting, and keep fighting for themselves and those they refuse to lose.

Dark, emotional, and driven by consequence, After the Wire is for readers who want domestic suspense, military-flavored drama, psychological tension, and stories about survival after the breaking point.

About this title

About the Author

Darius Blackman is the pen name of Bryan Frazier, a soldier of 22 years, father of three daughters, and independent author whose work is built around discipline, pressure, legacy, survival, love, history, identity, and the standards people live by when life demands more from them.

Blackman's nonfiction foundation is The Darius Blackman Standards Series, a five-book leadership and self-development collection shaped heavily by the lessons he learned through more than two decades in the Army. Through books such as A Man With Direction, Hold Your Ground, Built for Pressure, The Disciplined Man, and The Provider's Discipline, he writes directly to men who are ready to stop drifting, build stronger habits, protect their peace, carry responsibility, control their emotions, manage pressure, and become dependable in the places where weakness costs the most.

But Blackman's writing does not stop at self-development. His fiction moves with the same concern for consequence, identity, and power. In the Empire of Kimmett series, including The Exodus of Kemet, Convergence War, Fractured Infinity, and Thorn of convergence, he builds an Afrofuturist universe where ancient legacy, hidden history, advanced civilizations, leadership, survival, and the future of Black identity collide across worlds.

His Khemara books, including The awakening of Khemara: The first signal and Khemara Unbound, continue his interest in awakening, transformation, mystery, and ordinary people being pulled into realities larger than they ever imagined. These stories reflect one of Blackman's strongest creative themes: the moment when a person realizes the life they thought they understood was only the beginning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Darius Blackman
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798235414235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318