A Mother's Legacy: A Prequel to The Secret Pact
Paperback
Series: The Secret Pact, Book 2
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History
Publisher: Fiwi Roots Publishing
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
History is often found in the dry ink of ledgers and the cold lines of treaties. We know the numbers. We know the dates. But the ledgers do not record the quiet weight of a mother's voice in a dark room... or the inheritance she leaves behind for a son born into chains.
In Glen Carty's novel, The Secret Pact, Silas is the gravity around which everything turns. He is a man whose life and liberty others are willing to risk everything to protect... and to some, a man whose very survival must be crushed.
But the strength required to carry that weight did not come from nothing.
Every river has a source.
Before Silas became the man others would risk their lives to protect, he was a nine-year-old boy listening to his mother's story-and to the name she finally whispered. It was the beginning of his knowing: who he was, what had been taken from him, and why he could never stand silent while the helpless were broken.
These are the stories carved into him before the world tried to tell him he was nothing. The memory of the river... the road... and the sound of iron.
This is... A Mother's Legacy.
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