{"product_id":"crown-after-midnight-oakland-moon-darius-blackman-9798235295896","title":"Crown After Midnight Oakland Moon, Book Two","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHope changed the room.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow midnight brings the crown.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoman Greer and Dr. Candice Monroe survived Club Hope, but the night is not finished with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly hours after the events of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHope After Dark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, Sacramento calls with a warning: \u003cstrong\u003eOakland found Hope, but Sacramento kept the crown.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mysterious old book opens in Deja Gaines's kitchen. A black Lincoln waits outside her house. A man named Marlon Vale arrives with polished language, old power, and an invitation no one asked for. Crown House is waiting, and every room inside it seems built to test the difference between love, ownership, protection, and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoman is trying to become a different kind of man. Candice is trying to keep her life from becoming someone else's inheritance. Together, they must travel north into a world of dangerous family names, old rooms, blood-stained history, women who remember too much, supernatural ledgers, and a crown that does not simply sit on a head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt studies hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt rewards control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks men what they are willing to become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrown After Midnight: Oakland Moon, Book Two\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a grown Black romance, romantasy, and crime saga about desire, power, inheritance, supernatural pressure, and the terrifying cost of choosing love without surrendering yourself to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoman said no crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crown heard him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darius Blackman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235295896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Darius Blackman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.47d","brand":"Darius Blackman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084204941567,"sku":"9798235295896","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crown-after-midnight-oakland-moon-darius-blackman-9798235295896","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}