Novels by Joey Macallan

Wes Calloway is twenty-three, a high school dropout working three jobs in Miami to keep his dying mother alive and give his autistic younger brother, Sawyer, a real shot at care. Then he finds a crack in the world: a decimal-rounding flaw buried in a cryptocurrency exchange's settlement code, invisible to everyone but him. He starts skimming fractions of a cent, untraceable, and pours the money into his family's survival. He is not the only one watching the exploit. An anonymous handler known only as the Watcher warns him the traffic has drawn attention from Marea Holdings, a laundering front tied to a cartel with roots deeper than Wes understands, and from executives inside VaultChain, the exchange itself, who built the backdoor on purpose and have been quietly draining it for years. When Wes refuses to sell his silence, Marea's enforcer, Rourke, kidnaps Sawyer to force his hand. Wes stops hiding. Working with the Watcher, a former VaultChain security engineer with her own decade-old grudge against the company, he uncovers a truth that reframes everything he thought he knew about his life: his father did not die in an accident. He was murdered a decade ago for finding the same fraud Wes just found on his own. Racing against a countdown to get his brother back alive, Wes turns the exploit into a weapon: freezing Marea's accounts mid-transaction, exposing VaultChain's executives live to federal investigators and the press, and forcing a shadow war fought entirely in code, algorithms, and money. When the smoke clears, Wes is not a ghost anymore. He is the man who broke a cartel and a corporation with nothing but a laptop and a reason to fight, and Miami will never forget his name.

Grant Calloway is twenty-two, unremarkable, and about to lose everything: his family's failing logistics company, buried under a mob-engineered debt of two hundred and forty thousand dollars. What nobody knows is that the man waking up in his soft, unscarred body is the reincarnated Crimson Warlord, a conqueror of a hundred and eight kingdoms, betrayed and killed by his own son. He has no army now. No blade, no title, no power. Only a warehouse worker's hands, a father who can't stop shaking, and a lifetime of knowing exactly how the desperate get destroyed. When mob enforcer Ronnie Kessler shows up to collect, Grant refuses to fold. He exposes the debt as a setup, recruits laid-off dock workers into a loyal crew, turns a corrupt cop, and flips Kessler himself into a double agent, absorbing every weapon Marchetti sends against him. Each victory peels back another layer, until Grant discovers Marchetti was never the real threat: Vivian Cross, a councilwoman on the verge of becoming mayor, has spent six years quietly bankrupting Ironport's family businesses to seize the waterfront, using Marchetti as her expendable front. Cross doesn't fear Grant. She's curious about him, and invites him into her world to find out what he really is, setting a three-week countdown to her waterfront gala, where every layer of her operation will finally be in one room. As Grant builds an empire from nothing, family loyalty collides with the ruthlessness his past life demands, forcing him to decide how much of the Warlord he's willing to become to save the people he loves. When the gala arrives, alliances fracture, a devastating betrayal reshapes everything, and Grant finally stands before Cross to answer her only question: who does he think he is.