The Boaz Scorekeeper--Digital

The Boaz Scorekeeper

A gripping Southern thriller about power, justice, and the lengths one man will go to settle the score.

Micaden Lewis Tanner grew up on a farm in the Arona Community outside Boaz, Alabama—a place where hard work and discipline shaped his childhood. He excelled in academics and became a standout football player at Boaz High School. But when basketball season rolled around, the court proved to be his greatest weakness. Instead of riding the bench, Micaden found a new way to stay close to the game: as the team’s official scorekeeper.

His position gave him an inside look at the lives of his childhood friends—the Flaming Five—Boaz’s golden boys of basketball. Sons of wealth and influence, they knew nothing but privilege, prestige, and the sweet sound of net. They shattered every record and sent two of their own—James Adams and Randall Radford—on scholarship to Auburn University.

But on the night of May 25, 1972, at their high school graduation party at Club Eden on Aurora Lake, everything changed. A single night of revelry ended in a shocking act of violence, setting into motion a decades-long battle between justice and corruption.

For the next seventy-nine years, Micaden would learn firsthand how powerful men manipulate the system—using money, influence, and backroom deals to shield themselves from accountability. The criminal justice system, a supposed beacon of fairness, would prove to be a labyrinth of deception where the guilty walk free and the innocent suffer in silence.

But Micaden was not one to accept injustice. Armed with the skills he learned on the farm and at the score table, he reinvented the rules of retribution—balancing the scales with a methodical precision that only a true scorekeeper could master.

As decades pass and secrets fester, Micaden Tanner transforms from a quiet observer into a force of reckoning. In a world where justice can be bought and sold, one man dares to keep score his own way.

Will he finally expose the truth, or will the powerful continue to rewrite history?

💥 Perfect for fans of John Grisham, Greg Iles, and legal thrillers with a Southern Gothic edge.

🔍 Themes of justice, corruption, and the moral cost of revenge.

⚖️ A gripping, multi-generational saga that spans nearly eight decades.