It's not every day you get a second chance to make a first impression. The Wake: Renaissance perfectly retells Berkley's 2018 award-winning debut novel, The Wake. Scoring a 9.9 out of 10-star rating from Books With Benefits, Berkley delivers the perfect origin story to his critically acclaimed crime drama series in The Wake: Renaissance. In this thank you, and a love letter to critics and fans of the original The Wake, and the 12:34 Tiffany Gibbons Saga, The Wake: Renaissance dives deeper into the original subject matter while seamlessly aligning with the events of his 2022 novel The Void and 2023's The Legacy.

The Wake: Renaissance is based in the fictional West Baltimore City Community known as Ridgely Square which draws inspiration from the real life Park Heights, Mount Winans, West Port, Brooklyn Park, Harlem Park, and Gwynns Falls communities. Set in 2016, The Wake: Renaissance explores how the main protagonist, Tiffany Gibbons, was rocked to her core by several traumatic events and deaths. Through the eyes of Tiffany, a single mother battling mental illness and trauma, you will witness the fall of a once prominent family and community-thanks to crime, corruption, gentrification, and family secrets. The challenges in the community aren't black and white, and this story paints a perfect picture with several shades of gray. The Wake: Renaissance is a mind-bending crime drama told from a citizen's point of view with a narrator who is suffering from a psychotic break. In a story so layered and real, it will constantly make you wonder, what will happen next? Can you trust the narrator? How much more can she take? What is the true cost of freedom? And why did she do it? Welcome to the official first book to the 12:34 Tiffany Gibbons Saga.