Silas Monday

Silas Monday is a historical fiction novel about a slave on an equine plantation in the 1830's. Silas is the "Devil's child" seven foot two and 350 pounds of pure hate, until a divinely orchestrated meeting with God. His transformation would shock everyone, slave and slave owner alike. What could have happened to cause such a metamorphosis in this dark giant.
We follow Silas both on his spiritual Journey and his walk through American history. As the Nat Turner Insurrection, the trail of tears and Armistead unfold in this timeless tail. Travel with us through time as we see America introduced to the terrible plague which is cancer and set breathlessly by as God heals and wipes it away! See our transformed hero endure cruel beatings and attempts on his life by the madam of the plantation's brother, field boss Asa McSwain. Meet "Lucifer" the Devil horse and see this Behemoth of a man tame this fiery beast.