Descent Into Darkness: A Circle of the Red Scorpion Prequel
About
Before he ruled a city… he learned how to survive.
Before he became a legend… he mastered power.
Solomon Blackwell learned early that the world respected only two things—fear and control. By sixteen, he understood both. By twenty, he was building an empire.
Now Seattle’s underworld answers to him. Law enforcement looks the other way. Wealth disguises violence, and respectability masks the monster beneath the suit.
But not everyone is fooled.
Assistant District Attorney Broderick Devereaux has spent his career dismantling criminal dynasties—and Solomon Blackwell is the one man on his radar, shielded by power and protected by men who fear him.
As the city tightens around them, two forces rise in parallel—one wielding law, the other command. Their collision is inevitable.
This is the story of how a boy became a king. Of the choices that shaped a monster. Of the darkness willingly embraced—long before love, before war, and before the Circle was born.