Brick by Brick: A Father's Redemption

Brick by Brick: A Father's Redemption
A Memoir by Gregory Rodgers
There is an empty chair in his soul where his son should be sitting.
Brick by Brick: A Father's Redemption is not a story about perfection. It is a story about pain, accountability, transformation, and the raw truth of what it means to be a father who lost everything but refused to disappear.
Gregory Rodgers takes readers deep into the heart of his life. From the trauma of childhood abuse in Waco, Texas, where silence was a survival tactic and fists replaced love. Into the grip of a justice system that wrote him off before asking his name. Through the steel cells of SCI Fayette, where violence was normal and purpose had to be created from scratch. And into a courtroom where the word father was ripped from him without consideration of growth, effort, or truth.
This memoir is not just about being locked up. It is about the real work of becoming free. It explores what happens to a man who wakes up every day haunted by a son he cannot protect. It is the sound of prayers whispered to concrete walls. The pain of birthdays missed. The ache of writing letters you cannot send. And the heavy silence of knowing your love is real even when the system says you do not exist.
But above all, this is a love story.
A love story between a father and his son.
A love story between a man and the version of himself he is fighting to become.
With soul-piercing honesty and unforgettable storytelling, Gregory takes you into the moments that built him. He does not ask for pity. He offers his truth. He reveals the code of survival he developed. The emotional scars that shaped him. And the bricks he stacked every day to create a new path forward.
Each chapter is filled with hard-earned wisdom and a voice that refuses to stay silent. This book is for the fathers who feel invisible. For the sons who never got to know the real man behind the shadows. For anyone who has been trapped in the past and still chose to keep building.
You will not find easy inspiration here. You will find raw emotion, spiritual grit, and one man's refusal to surrender to the label the world tried to give him.
This is not a comeback.
It is resurrection.
It is proof that something holy can rise from pain. That legacy is something you create in silence when no one is watching. That love is not a title. It is a fight.
Brick by Brick is for anyone who has ever wanted to be seen, heard, and remembered for more than their mistakes. It is a story that will stay with you long after the last page.
And it is built to outlast the rubble.

Gregory Rodgers is a truth-seeker, survivor, and storyteller with a voice carved from fire and forged in reflection. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Gregory spent four years behind bars, years that could've broken him, but instead transformed him. In the solitude of his incarceration, he began to write, not just to pass the time, but to understand who he was, what he believed, and how he'd gone wrong.
That's where the Jaded Anthony series was born.
Through the fictional lens of Jaded Anthony, a journalist chasing forbidden truths. Gregory explored everything he had once ignored: accountability, legacy, power, control, and the war for the soul of humanity. Writing became his lifeline. Each page was a confession, a mirror, a prophecy. Every book in the series (Conversations with Darkness, The Forgotten War, The Silence Agreement, and more) reflects not just hidden history, but Gregory's personal journey from darkness to awareness.
His work draws on real-world conspiracies, suppressed knowledge, ancient civilizations, and elite control systems, but always returns to something deeper: the human spirit's refusal to stay silent.
Gregory writes for the outcasts, the broken, the curious, and the brave. For those who've seen the system from the inside and decided to expose it. For those who understand that sometimes you have to lose everything to find the truth.
He doesn't just write novels. He writes awakenings.