by Kern Carter
A young father struggles to balance his personal ambitions with the pressures of parenthood, inherited pain, and toxic environments.
Corey has just become a father but quickly discovers that he's not prepared. He has dreams and ambitions that clash with the pressure and expectations from the people who are closest to him, and tries to navigate all of those pressures while surrounded by a toxic and violent physical environment. He wants to escape, but trying to overcome the inherited pain from his absent father while embracing his own journey through fatherhood is proving too much.
Honest, introspective, and deeply human, this novel speaks to anyone who has ever felt torn between who they are and who they’re expected to be.
I write stories that make you cry tears of joy, pain, anger, frustration and achievement.
I write novels about family; what breaks them, what makes them, what keeps them apart and what brings them together. This theme is the core of my novels, interwoven with stories that are curious to me; stories of wealth, of yearning, of ambition and self-destructive behaviour. These tales are presented through flawed characters and perfect homes, through persistent protagonists thrown into situations with no right or wrong answers, only consequences they are willing to endure and those they are not. If these types of novels speak to you, then you are in the right place.