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Prayers for Ebony: A Hood Story of Survival, Faith, and Breaking Chains
Paperback
Publisher: Empire Publishing
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ebony never had the privilege of being a child.
Raised in the concrete trenches of California's toughest blocks, she grows up learning that the world don't love Black girls the way God does. Her mama's battles, the hood's silence, and a community too scared to speak truth leave Ebony fighting battles nobody trained her for.
When Ebony becomes trapped under the control of a dangerous man the streets both fear and protect, her life turns into a storm of manipulation, pain, and survival. Judgment replaces love. Rumors drown out her truth. Safe spaces turn into traps. And every time she tries to run, another wolf disguised as a savior steps in her way.
But Ebony carries something the hood cannot steal.
a quiet prayer life
the kind you whisper in bathrooms, alleys, and dark corners,
hoping God still hears the broken.
Through trauma, abandonment, fake prophets, corrupt systems, and generational curses nobody wants to talk about, Ebony begins searching for her own freedom and the God hidden inside her pain.
And in the moments where she almost gives up, something sacred rises:
The Song in Ebony the part of her spirit that refuses to die.
The Street Gospel of Ebony the calling placed on her life long before the world tried to erase her.
Across this series, Ebony discovers that the streets didn't just try to break her -
they shaped her into a prophet the hood wasn't ready for.
This is a story about scars becoming scripture.
About prayers turning into power.
About a girl the world threw away...
and the woman God lifted anyway.
Raw. Hood. Unfiltered. Unshakable.
This is Ebony's truth!
And she's done whispering.
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