Ashes of Roland

By Russell M Hammond II

When Roland Ashe's body is found on a riverbank after saving a stranger's dog, his estranged children inherit the only thing he left behind: a box of cassette tapes.
As Emily and Jake listen, the father they lost long before his death begins to take shape - not the distant man who drifted in and out of their lives, but a veteran who survived three brushes with death, lived with chronic pain and quiet panic, and carried a lifetime of unspoken grief.
Tape by tape, they learn the truth:
Roland wasn't running away from them.
He was losing himself.
And still, he never stopped trying to love them.
A deeply human novel about trauma, endurance, and the fragile threads that keep us alive, * Ashes of Roland asks one haunting question:
How do we forgive the ones who couldn't stay - even when they never stopped caring?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6F9562C
• ISBN13: 9798278281047
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"