Colonel Tye: An American Saga Book One: Awakening

COLONEL TYE: AN AMERICAN SAGA - Book One: Awakening

They called him Satan.

The governor of New Jersey put a bounty on his head. Patriots double-checked their locks at night and slept with one eye open. But before he became the most feared Black commander of the American Revolution, he was just Titus — a runaway slave with a shaman's gifts, a hunted fugitive, and a coward carrying ghosts heavier than any chains.

Here's what they don't tell you about survival: sometimes it wears the same mask as cowardice. Titus learned that early, born into bondage on a New Jersey plantation where the only graduate-level course offered was 'Preserving the Flesh While Killing the Soul.'

Then they whipped the woman he loved to death — and made him hold the ropes.

Her blood woke something in his veins. Something primal. Something ancient. The shamanic bloodline of his African ancestors, ignited by grief and rage. That's the day the coward started his long walk toward becoming something the world wasn't ready for.

He runs north and stumbles into a world of spirits, prophecy, and the kind of war that doesn't care which side you're on as long as you bleed for it. African ancestors whisper through his dreams. A fierce Mohawk medicine man teaches him to walk between worlds — part mystic, part warrior, all survivor.

Then the Revolution erupts. While Patriots preach liberty from behind their human property, Titus becomes Colonel Tye — commander of the feared Black Brigade. In a war where former slaves and Native nations face each other across battle lines — forced to choose between devils, bleeding for a freedom neither empire intends to grant — Tye writes his own manifesto in gunpowder and steel. Freeing slaves. Spilling blood. Becoming the most dangerous man in New Jersey, and the most wanted.

But when a Judas among the freed sells his location for British gold, the man they call Satan must unleash every dark gift he's mastered to stay alive and protect his people — even if it means becoming the devil they always claimed he was.

Inspired by the true story of Revolutionary War commander Colonel Tye, Colonel Tye: An American Saga is a mythological historical epic of rebellion, prophecy, spiritual warfare, and the terrible price of freedom.

Perfect for readers of dark historical fantasy and morally complex antiheroes — fans of the spiritual journey of The Alchemist, the haunting power of Toni Morrison's Beloved, and the darkly defiant spirit of The Good Lord Bird, where history and myth walk hand in hand.

Publisher - Reach One Teach One Press

Language - English

Perfect Bound

Contributors

By author

G. Wright

Published Date - 2026-06-08

ISBN - 9789696093268

Dimensions - 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm

Page Count - 300