About the Novel

Trapped inside the machinery of an evil system, one Chaplain dared to teach prisoners the true path to justice and freedom.

Set in 1990s Los Angeles amid riots, racial unrest, and the height of mass incarceration, Redemption Row tells the incredible true story of Chaplain Robert Palmer—a US Army chaplain who enters the California State Prison system not to preach sermons, but to spark a quiet revolution of the soul.

Inside, he meets men the world has discarded: gang leaders, lifers, wrongfully convicted seekers. Through secret discipleship, relentless compassion, and radical ordinations, Palmer transforms the prison chapel into a sacred battlefield—where scripture becomes a sword, brotherhood is forged in fire, and faith defies the machinery of punishment.

But Palmer’s mission threatens powerful forces, including Warden Calvin Drake, a man who sees inmates as irredeemable cogs in a carceral empire. What follows is an embodied spiritual war—one that challenges the very nature of justice, grace, and human dignity.

Redemption Row is not just about surviving prison—it's about transcending it. With rich biblical symbolism and raw emotional power, this is the story of men who break the chains of oppression to become new men that exemplify faith, divine love, revival, and goodness as they return to minister in the same neighborhoods that once abandoned them. It is a story of defiant love, luminous transformation, and the legacy of a man who believed that no soul is too far gone to be born again through Christ.

About the Author

William Palmer is a Christian Mystic based in Austin Texas. A devoted husband, father, and businessman, Palmer pursues a life of God devotion, modeling courageous faith in action. Redemption Row is his debut novel—and his calling card. Drawn from lived experience, it is a spiritual battle hymn for the broken, a blueprint for the redeemed, and a daring invitation to create spiritual revival by reflecting and embodying God’s love.