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Gabriel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Across generations, one family carries a light.
GABRIEL begins in the Atlantic, where an enslaved African man survives a violent crossing and sees a light that he understands as a sign from God. That moment becomes the beginning of a family story stretching from slavery and emancipation through Reconstruction, the twentieth century, and into a modern dream of extraordinary scale.
His son Gabriel becomes the moral center of a world built on injustice. Gabriel's son, Rias, lives to see freedom and begins to imagine what his family can build with it. Generations later, Richard Leon King carries that same inheritance forward with optimism, ambition, faith, and a belief that the future should always be larger than the past.
Based on a family history passed through generations, GABRIEL is a novel about survival, freedom, faith, memory, and the quiet ways one generation prepares the next to go farther.
It is the story of people who endured what they could not control-and then used freedom to build what they could.
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