KVI STORY COORDINATES · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
The Price of a Different Future
By KVI Editorial
Hear No Evil: From No Worries to No Remorse
By Kennedy Colin Thomas
How far can a family climb before the choices that carried it upward begin to change what holds it together? In the first book of the Benton Boy Books saga, Kennedy Colin Thomas introduces Sicx Benton and a family moving from economic hardship in Atlanta toward a world shaped by influence, ambition, and loyalty. What once felt like survival grows complicated when power enters the picture.
Reading route: Ambition, family bonds, and the cost of trust.
Book information
Title: Hear No Evil: From No Worries to No Remorse
Author: Kennedy Colin Thomas
Series: Benton Boy Books, book one of a planned seven-book saga
Genre: Contemporary urban fiction and suspense
Primary setting: Atlanta, Georgia
Author-confirmed book link: View Hear No Evil on Amazon
Place: the Atlanta behind the story
Thomas writes from Atlanta, a city he says feeds the energy of his fiction. In his submitted premise, the Benton family’s story begins with poverty and reaches toward greater power. The streets are not merely scenery. They help explain what the characters want to escape, what they hope to gain, and why their decisions come with consequences.
Choice: what is success worth?
A family’s rise can test the very loyalties that first brought it together. As the Bentons build influence, ambition and trust no longer point automatically in the same direction. Thomas’s submitted description frames those pressures as central to the saga. Who can be counted on when the stakes change? And can the promise of a better life survive the compromises made to reach it?
Echo: the things a family carries
The appeal of a family-centered crime story often lies in what happens between the larger events: the small doubts, the unspoken expectations, and the question of whether a decision taken for one person’s benefit may wound another. Hear No Evil gives Story Coordinates a chance to consider those tensions through the world of contemporary urban fiction.
About the author
Kennedy Colin Thomas writes contemporary urban fiction rooted in the energy and contrasts of Atlanta, where he lives. His author-supplied biography describes fast-moving crime stories shaped by sharp dialogue, power struggles, and realism. Thomas draws on the city’s street life and complicated social dynamics as inspiration for the Benton Boy Books saga.
The Conversation Continues
What does loyalty mean when success changes the people around us? Share your thoughts in the moderated reader discussion.
To me, loyalty reveals its true character when circumstances change. It’s easy to stand beside someone when there’s little to gain or lose. But success has a way of exposing what was always beneath the surface.
I’ve come to realize that not everyone who celebrates your beginning will be comfortable with your growth. Sometimes success changes people. Other times, it simply reveals who they were all along.
Loyalty doesn’t mean agreeing with everything someone does, nor does it require sacrificing your dignity to prove your commitment. It means remaining genuine when circumstances shift, speaking the truth even when it’s uncomfortable, and remembering the people who stood beside you before there was anything to gain.
Perhaps the real question isn’t whether success changes loyalty, but whether that loyalty was ever rooted in love and respect or merely in convenience.
Because success doesn’t always change the people around us. Sometimes, it changes how clearly we see them.