In 'The Weight of Blood,' Tiffany D. Jackson crafts a gripping tale of a biracial teen, Madison Washington, whose life in a small Georgia town is marked by bullying and a secret heritage. When a storm exposes her identity, and her town's racist history is spotlighted by a viral video, the high school plans an integrated prom in a bid for unity. As Maddy is thrust into the spotlight as the prom date of a popular classmate, the underlying tensions of the town surface. Behind the facade of normalcy, Maddy hides a deeper secret, one intertwined with her town's dark legacy, and prom night becomes a stage for a disturbing revelation with fatal consequences.