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💫 Title: Your House Will Pay ✍️ Author: Steph Cha 🎭 Genre: Literary Fiction / Mystery / Crime Fiction / Historical Fiction / Contemporary Fiction 🌶️ Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️ (Mild. Contains violence, strong language, and mature themes. Minimal sexual content.) 📝 The Vibe Family secrets 🤐 • Social justice ⚖️ • Los Angeles history 🌆 • Multi-generational drama 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 • Moral complexity 🧩 • "The past never stays buried." A powerful literary novel that blends family drama with crime and history, exploring the lasting impact of racial violence and injustice across generations in Los Angeles. 📚 Summary Your House Will Pay follows two families whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined decades after a tragic act of racial violence. Grace Park, a Korean American pharmacy owner, is caring for her aging mother when long-hidden secrets begin to emerge. Meanwhile, Shawn Matthews struggles to support his family while confronting the unresolved pain surrounding his sister's murder years earlier. As the past and present collide, both families are forced to confront questions of justice, forgiveness, grief, and responsibility. Inspired in part by real historical events surrounding racial tensions in Los Angeles, Steph Cha crafts a compelling story that examines how trauma echoes across generations while offering a deeply human portrait of compassion and reconciliation. Blending literary fiction with mystery and social commentary, the novel presents a nuanced exploration of race, family, and the enduring consequences of violence. 📚 Reader Notes Standalone literary novel Written by Steph Cha Themes: race, family, justice, grief, forgiveness, identity, community, generational trauma Inspired by historical racial tensions in Los Angeles Features multiple perspectives and richly developed characters Contains violence, strong language, and mature themes Character-driven with literary prose and emotional depth Appeals to readers of literary fiction, book clubs, and contemporary social fiction Winner of multiple literary awards and critical acclaim 📦 Bookseller Note May have light shelf wear or a black/overstock mark on edges or cover from previous retail distribution.