Friends 2 Lovers: Flesh and Blood

It is Father's Day, and an old man on a silver-headed cane has just laid a faded photograph on Anthony Richards's tablecloth and called him son. The powerful man Anthony testified against before a federal grand jury is the father who watched him from across the street for fifty-six years, and now Claude and Kelly Richards have to hold their family together while the ground shifts under all of them.

Within days there is an arrest at dawn, a courtroom list with Anthony's name on it, and a new word at every table: brother. Reggie Dixon, the man raising Kelly's birth daughter, Lori, is suddenly Anthony's family by blood. In the Bronx, Marcus Greer opens a letter from the father he has never known and has to decide whether to pick up the phone. Claude, who knows what it means to be claimed by a man who was never required to, parks across the street and waits. And Kelly does what she always does when the truth gets expensive. She counts every name at the table, twice.

But some debts are older than anyone at that table, and loyalty runs in more than one direction. When blood and paper say different things, which one decides who is family?