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HIS FOURTH Love, Lies, Freedom
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ISBN13: 9781066651306
Publisher: ABI Crowther
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
He made her his fourth wife. He never expected her to take back the story.
Maya Hart was not looking for love when Robert Bainbridge entered her life. She was capable, generous, educated, and quietly content. She was a woman with a future of her own.
Robert was charming, successful, polished, and persuasive. He had three ex-wives, an explanation for each failed marriage, and a talent for making a woman feel special before placing the blame for everything he ruined on her.
At first, Maya believes she has found love.
But love should not cost a woman her voice.
Over twenty-one years and eight months, Maya's world shrinks. The lies grow sharper. The blame becomes normal. Money becomes a tool for control. Kindness becomes a weapon used against her. Her confidence, career, friendships, family ties, and sense of self are gradually worn down by a man who always knows how to appear reasonable, especially when he is hurting her.
Even after the marriage ends, Robert is not done.
One final message reaches across the years: calculated, venomous, and meant to hurt. But this time, Maya is no longer the woman who stayed quiet to survive.
This time, she is ready to speak the truth.
His Fourth: Love, Lies, Freedom is a powerful literary novel about coercive control, emotional and financial abuse, gaslighting, motherhood, sisterhood, faith, survival, and the long path back to selfhood.
It is not a story about weakness.
It is a story about the woman who survived the version of herself that a man tried to create and finally reclaimed her own.
For readers of emotionally intense literary fiction, psychological women's fiction, domestic abuse survivor stories, and novels about women reclaiming their lives after toxic marriages.
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