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Roz Stevens
Roz Stevens carries a fierce love for stories that lurk in history’s shadows.
The Bolita Grift is Roz’s debut novel — a deep dive into early 1900s Miami’s underworld, weaving crime, redemption, and the pulse of a city on the brink.
When she’s not untangling buried histories, she’s pouring over Florida archives, immersed in anime, or binge-watching Japanese noir.
Author of two books, The Bolita Grift and The Numbers Man (prequel). Both are from the Grit Gamble and Grace series
Roz Stevens carries a fierce love for stories that lurk in history’s shadows.
The Bolita Grift is Roz’s debut novel — a deep dive into early 1900s Miami’s underworld, weaving crime, redemption, and the pulse of a city on the brink.
When she’s not untangling buried histories, she’s pouring over Florida archives, immersed in anime, or binge-watching Japanese noir.
Author of two books, The Bolita Grift and The Numbers Man (prequel). Both are from...
Miami, 1909. In a city built on debts and deception, Jerome “Redbone” Blake collects debts with his fists in Colored Town—until a desperate gambler trades his daughter to settle his losses. But Althea Hayes is nobody’s property. Her keen mind sees angles Jerome missed and together they cook up the boldest con Miami has ever seen: they forge a...
In 1909 Miami, Jerome Blake’s weekly rounds for Big Jim barely keep him fed. When a simple collection spirals into a moral reckoning, Jerome and his partner bolt for Tampa’s booming bolita houses—where numbers buy protection and a man’s worth is measured in cash.
There he meets Marty Hooker, who runs the city’s underworld with ledgers,...
