SILAS PAGE

★ 2026 BCALA Self-Publishing eBook Fiction Award Winner ★

Named the year's most distinguished work of self-published Black fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Silas Page is Author TARU at full power — a story about what a man owes the next generation when nobody owed him anything.

Published by Black Fuego Press.

Born on a cold Detroit night to a sixteen-year-old mother who bled out on a hospital table, Silas Page entered the world with nothing but a name and a whispered promise: You’re meant for more than this.

The system had other plans.

Group homes. Corrupt caseworkers. Predators circling like vultures. By nine, Silas watched his only friend die from neglect while the adults who were supposed to protect them counted their checks. When a family finally wanted him, the system tore that dream apart too.

Alone and desperate, he found a different kind of family.

Solomon “Priest” Banks ran an empire built on throwaway children. He offered food, shelter, education, belonging—everything the system denied. All he asked in return was loyalty. Contribution. Silence. And blood.

By twelve, Silas had learned what the streets taught him best: survival comes at a cost. He fought, killed, and stole—not for revenge, not for glory, but because it was the only way to endure.

But every soldier has a breaking point.

When Priest demanded one act too many, something inside Silas finally cracked. He walked away. He stood on a bridge, ready to let the Detroit River wash away his sins.

He didn’t jump. But surviving was only the beginning.

Now, Silas must face the wreckage of every choice he made. The lives he destroyed. The innocence he lost. And the children trapped in the same system that almost swallowed him whole.

SILAS PAGE is a raw, unflinching novel about the cost of survival, the weight of sin, and the impossible price of reclaiming a soul the world tried to steal.

Some wounds never heal. Some sins never wash clean. And some kids never get a second chance.

This is Silas’s story. All of it. The dirt. The blood. And whatever’s left when the smoke clears.

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