The Reckoning - Don D-Universe Book 2

Newcastle has a way of keeping secrets. The Mfuphis have a way of uncovering them.

When the knock comes at 19:47 — a family code, three raps then two — detective Khaya Mfuphi knows before he opens the door that his world is about to collapse. His brother Mali is dead. The military says it was combat. The death report says otherwise.

Three shots. Chest. Chest. Head. That's not a firefight. That's an execution.

As the brothers gather to grieve, a tactical police unit surrounds the farmhouse. Someone wants the Mfuphi family silenced — and they're willing to burn everything to the ground to do it. What follows is a single, explosive night that unravels seventeen years of buried secrets: a corrupt colonel, a casino built on blood money, a war no government will admit is happening, and a five-month-old boy whose death was ruled a tragedy — but was anything but.

Set during the same days that The Girl in the Picture unfolds, The Reckoning is the story happening off-screen — the grief, the fire, and the truth that Mali died to protect.

Some debts can never be repaid. But they can be made to pay.