Isaac Baptiste was born into the kind of power most men spend their whole lives chasing.

His family owns property, moves in rooms most people will never enter, and controls relationships across Miami that money alone can't buy. But Isaac has never wanted to live off the Baptiste name. He wants something of his own-his own money, his own people, his own operation, and eventually, his own power.

Then one night changes everything.

A stash house is hit. Ten kilos disappear. One of Isaac's closest men is murdered, another is left fighting for his life, and the men responsible leave behind only one name:

The Regime.

Before Isaac can recover from the robbery, the damage spreads. His customers begin receiving better prices, better product, and better terms from a new organization moving quietly through Miami. At the center of it is a man called Heavy-but Isaac quickly realizes Heavy may only be the face of something much bigger.

With his supply gone and his mother refusing to strengthen an operation she can't control, Isaac is forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: in Miami, almost every door worth opening already belongs to his family.

So he looks outside of it.

An introduction in Atlanta offers Isaac access to a Mexican-connected supply network and the possibility of something more valuable than a temporary shipment-a permanent line independent of the Baptiste family.

But independence has a price.

And as Isaac moves deeper into a world where agreements carry consequences, loyalty becomes harder to measure, family becomes harder to escape, and every decision affects the men willing to follow him, he has to decide what kind of leader he intends to become before ambition takes more from him than he ever planned to lose.

Set within the expanding NOVA Universe, BAPTISTE is a gritty crime drama about family, ownership, loyalty, ambition, and the difference between having money and truly having power.