What Waits at Home Book Six of The Predatory Spouse Series. This item is unavailable.What Waits at Home Book Six of The Predatory Spouse Series

Malik Carter returns to Fort Hood trying to rebuild a life the Army keeps interrupting.

After career intermission, depression, family responsibility, and a hard return to uniform, Malik is assigned to HHC 1-9 Cav as a 92Y supply NCO. The mission seems simple at first: rebuild a broken supply room, train young soldiers, prepare the unit for Korea, and prove he still belongs. But Korea becomes more than another rotation. It becomes the place where field problems, nightlife, friendship, leadership, and grief collide.

Across the ocean, Naomi carries the hope of their unborn child. At home in Killeen, Gloria and Grandma Lillian hold the house together with food, family, and Pumper's stubborn loyalty. Then October and December change everything. A stillborn son, a grandmother's final dream, a commander who refuses compassion, and a unit that still needs Malik force him to learn what kind of leader grief can make him.

What Waits at Home is a military family drama about Korea, Fort Hood, fatherhood, loss, promotion, loyalty, and the hard truth that coming home is not the opposite of deployment. It is another mission.

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.