THE SOUTHERN OATH

The Whiskey Files - Book Six

In the South, power doesn't need permission.

It needs witnesses.

The Fuse has survived fire, betrayal, and open war-but survival has only made it larger, louder, and far more dangerous. What began as a brotherhood built on loyalty and shared scars has become a force the region can no longer ignore. And when power grows that visible, it draws enemies who don't come carrying guns.

They come carrying legitimacy.

As the Fuse expands across the Southern states, Joker Barnes finds himself fighting a different kind of war-one waged through courts, politics, churches, and carefully chosen words spoken behind closed doors. Violence still waits in the wings, but this time the real threat wears clean hands and calls itself order.

Boone takes command of the southern factions, holding the line as outside pressure mounts and internal fractures deepen. Smokes uncovers patterns no one wants acknowledged. Old alliances begin to strain under the weight of ambition, faith, and fear. Loyalty is tested not by bullets, but by silence-and by the cost of speaking when everyone else chooses to look away.

At the center of it all stands Joker, carrying the burden of leadership that can no longer be shouldered alone. Every decision now shapes the future of the Fuse itself. Rule through force, and become the monster the world expects. Seek legitimacy, and risk losing the soul that made the brotherhood unbreakable.

And beneath it all lies an oath-old, binding, and unforgiving. An oath sworn in blood and memory, passed down through generations that learned long ago the South remembers everything.

The Southern Oath is a powerful crime thriller about brotherhood under pressure, faith weaponized into control, and the moment when survival demands more than strength-it demands belief.

Because once the oath is sworn, there is no retreat.

Only consequence.