My Father
Nick Trader built an empire out of everything he was running from.
At nineteen, he married young and had six children in ten years. At thirty, married to someone else, he stopped paying for the ones he'd left, and made sure they could never find him again. By sixty, he had a company that bore his name, a fortune that meant nothing to anyone who actually knew him, and a debt, legal and otherwise, that had been quietly compounding for three decades.
Then Ruth found him.
A hospice nurse who married him late in life and loved him patiently into a faith he'd never had, Ruth did something Nick never asked her to do: she found his six abandoned children, one at a time, and got to know them without ever saying who she was. When cancer gave her only months to live, she gave Nick everything she'd learned, and one instruction. Go to them. All six. Whatever it costs.
MY FATHER is the story of a man who left a family unforgivably, and returns unannounced, one child at a time, carrying a debt he can finally pay and a presence money was never going to buy.
It does not promise every wound closes. It promises that some fathers, even the ones who leave, can still come home.
He is not the son in the story. He is the father. And the road runs both ways.
From David RKC, author of The Eyrie.
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