The Silver Seal

A Christian historical fiction set in Pergamus during the Roman Empire, the shifting tides of religious belief.

In the shadow of Roman rule, a slave named Onesimus carries two small silver seals—*I LOVE THEE* and *TRUST ME*—from his childhood. Found abandoned as a baby in Pergamus, raised by a kind foster mother, then sold into slavery after her death, fearing a world where freedom is a fragile illusion. Separated from his twin brother Chrestus, he endures the brutality of stone quarries and the shifting tides of religious belief. As he moves from Lystra to Colossae, Ephesus, and finally Smyrna, he wrestles with doubt, the weight of his past, and the growing conviction that the God who healed Xanthias in his childhood is calling him to something deeper than the world's offerings. In a time when emperors rule and faith is tested, Onesimus must decide whether to cling to the past or follow the path that leads him toward the very source of his hope.