{"product_id":"glass-empire-darryl-wayne-jr-townsend-9798233134265","title":"Glass Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eXavier Kelley lands at Hartsfield-Jackson with one bag and no plan. Expelled from Morehouse for a fight he can't explain and a rage he can't contain, he's been exiled to his father's Buckhead estate - a $4.2 million monument to a man who's never home.\u003cbr\u003eHis father is Chief Xander Kelley, the most powerful law enforcement officer in Atlanta. Third-generation. Politically connected. Running the city's police department like a machine - one built on loyalty, silence, and relationships that blur the line between governance and corruption.\u003cbr\u003eHis father's wife is Simone. Twenty-eight. From New Orleans. Smarter than anyone in the house gives her credit for, carrying a business plan in a locked room and a marriage she's been performing for two years. She's not what Xavier expected.\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as proximity becomes something more dangerous: late-night conversations, shared secrets, a connection that neither of them can afford and neither of them can stop. When Xavier discovers evidence of his father's corruption hidden in a desk drawer, he's forced into a choice that will define who he becomes - whistleblower or weapon, his mother's son or his father's heir.\u003cbr\u003eGlass Empire is a novel about power, performance, and the cost of control. It asks the question every family built on silence eventually faces: who owns the house when the house is all that's left?\u003cbr\u003eA literary thriller told in rotating perspectives, Glass Empire explores institutional corruption, domestic betrayal, and the architecture of Black power in modern Atlanta. For readers of Tayari Jones, Nathan Harris, and Brit Bennett.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darryl Wayne Jr. Townsend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233134265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polymath Portfolio Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d","brand":"Darryl Wayne Jr. Townsend","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440785567999,"sku":"9798233134265","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a51ad19f-bfc6-4b99-92b0-3d90f78c29f1.jpg?v=1777184797","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/glass-empire-darryl-wayne-jr-townsend-9798233134265","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}