The Official Website John Gambacorta
The Official Website John Gambacorta
If you have ever had to rise from your own ashes, you will find something of yourself here. Not a promise of perfection, but the possibility of becoming whole again.
Rising from the Ashes is more than a book series. It is the record of a life rebuilt, not in a single moment of triumph, but through years of breaking, reckoning, and rising again. These pages trace the long journey from innocence lost to identity reclaimed, from silence to truth, from survival to something resembling peace.
The first book, recently published, We Will Stone Him, reaches back into the places most people spend their lives trying to forget. It confronts the cruelty, confusion, and betrayal that shaped a childhood, not to sensationalize it, but to finally name what was never spoken.
When completed, the second book, The Beast Inside, will turn inward, into the aftermath as the author transitions into adulthood. It explores the shadows trauma leaves behind, the anger, the fear, the self‑doubt, the fractured identity that grows in the absence of safety.
When completed, the third book, A Life Well Lived, will reflect the shifting of the author's story. Not because the past disappears, but because the person walking forward is no longer defined by it. This final book is about rebuilding, slowly, imperfectly, honestly. It is about learning to live with what happened without letting it own you. It is about choosing meaning over fear, connection over isolation, and truth over silence. It is the quiet triumph of a life reclaimed.
This website is the home of that journey. A place for readers who have walked through their own fires, who carry their own scars, who know what it means to lose themselves and fight their way back.