THE GALLOWS IN GLOSTER

In Gloster, Mississippi, tradition is stronger than truth—and silence is enforced.

When a Black logger named Sam Gatlin is found hanging from a tree, officials rush to rule it a suicide. Russell Billy Johnson doesn’t believe them. Recently laid off from the town’s largest employer, Russell has already begun challenging Gloster’s quiet power structure. Sam’s death turns that challenge into a threat.

As an FBI agent arrives and evidence begins to contradict the official story, Russell discovers that Sam’s death is tied to far more than one night in the woods. Economic deals, political favors, and long-standing racial control all converge in a town determined to protect itself at any cost.

Warnings escalate. Doors close. Truth becomes dangerous.

The Gallows in Gloster is a tense, character-driven Southern thriller that explores how injustice survives—not through chaos, but through cooperation. It is the first novel in a powerful trilogy about power, race, and what happens when one man refuses to look away.