Colonel Tye: An American Saga - Apprentice. Colonel Tye Trilogy, #2

COLONEL TYE: AN AMERICAN SAGA - APPRENTICEFreedom was only the beginning. Funny thing about escaping slavery. You spend your whole life believing freedom is the destination. Turns out, sometimes it's just the initiation. Far from the Jersey plantation that spent eighteen years trying to convince him he was property, Titus finds refuge among the Haudenosaunee-where a powerful Mohawk shaman starts teaching him a lesson crueler than any whip.
Knowledge of self. The ancestors who once whispered through his dreams aren't asking politely anymore. They've marked him for something bigger than war. Bigger than survival. Bigger than the men tearing the colonies apart while arguing over whose version of freedom counts. But power has a nasty habit of charging interest. To become a Babalawo-a bridge between the living and the dead-Titus has to bury the frightened boy he used to be and walk through trials built to shatter everything he thinks he knows about fear, pain, and the price of destiny.
Meanwhile, the Revolution rages on. And it's a filthy business. Slaves bleeding for Patriot liberty, staring down musket barrels at runaways who fled the same plantations. Brothers in bondage killing each other over promises neither the British nor the Colonials mean to keep. Even the Haudenosaunee-warriors who shared food and council fires for five hundred years-now cracking each other's skulls over the cruelest joke ever told: they're killing each other for dirt that was already theirs.
The longer he trains, the closer the war creeps to the people he'd die to protect. And Death is watching-patient as the grave, ledger open. Because Titus won't just bridge the living and the dead. He'll become the hand that feeds the ledger. And somewhere in the blood and prophecy, Titus learns one of life's uglier truths. The hardest chains to break were never the ones around his wrists. They're the ones fastened around his mind. APPRENTICE is Book Two of Colonel Tye Trilogy-a mythic epic of prophecy, ancestral power, and spiritual rebirth.*For readers of Who Fears Death, Age of Myth, and the spiritual journey of The Alchemist-where myth and history walk hand in hand.