SMOKE: Where my father stood. The shadows that raised me.

SMOKE

Where My Father Stood. The Shadows That Raised Me.

He escaped his father’s shadow—until the shadow learned to evolve.

Malik Rowe grew up in a place where survival had its own language.

In the projects, men spoke through silence, reputations lasted longer than people, and everyone knew his father by one name:

Smoke.

Isaiah Rowe was feared long before Malik was old enough to understand why. His father tried to leave that life behind, but some things don’t disappear when the fire goes out.

Smoke stays.

Now Malik is beginning to discover that the stories surrounding his father weren’t just neighborhood legends—and the darkness following their family may be far older and far more dangerous than anything Isaiah ever did.

Strange messages appear where they shouldn’t.

Footsteps echo through empty stairwells.

Shadows move when no one is there.

And someone—or something—seems determined to make sure Malik inherits more than his father’s blood.

As buried secrets surface and the line between memory, violence, and the supernatural begins to fracture, Malik must uncover what his father was truly running from before the same darkness claims him.

Because in a city built on code and curses, the past doesn’t stay buried.

It watches.

It waits.

And sometimes…

it raises you.

SMOKE: Where My Father Stood. The Shadows That Raised Me. is a dark urban supernatural psychological thriller about fathers and sons, inherited violence, buried secrets, and the terrifying possibility that some shadows are passed down from generation to generation.

Your blood may tell you where you came from.

But the shadows decide what follows you home.