They Cleared the Block Before Sunrise

At 4:18 in the morning, somebody starts clearing RaRa Coleman’s entire Richmond block.

Police lights. City trucks. Orange notices taped to doors.

Residents are told to grab what they can and leave before sunrise.

But RaRa used to work relocation intake, and something about the paperwork doesn’t feel right.

Then she sees the code.

A code she remembers from cases that moved too fast, asked too few questions, and disappeared into restricted files.

Now one boarded-up house is being cleaned differently from every other property on the street. Neighbors who know something are suddenly afraid to speak. And the people offering help seem more interested in controlling the story than explaining why an entire block had to vanish before daylight.

RaRa has spent years believing paperwork was meant to protect people.

This morning, she learns how easily it can bury them.

THEY CLEARED THE BLOCK BEFORE SUNRISE is a dark psychological urban suspense novel about buried secrets, missing women, neighborhood silence, and what happens when one woman refuses to leave before asking why.