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Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Black Label Books
Published: Apr 21 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Christian Goodman is the kind of man folks notice when he walks into a room. Confident. Polished. The high school coach everybody respects, maybe even envies a little. He knows how to talk, how to smile, how to make a woman feel like she's the only one in the world... even when she's not. Especially when she's not.
On the outside, it looks like control. Like he's winning.
But some victories come dressed up real pretty and still leave you empty when the lights go out.
Christian has built a life that keeps people close enough to admire him, but far enough that they never really touch the truth. And that's how he likes it. No pressure. No accountability. No one asking the kind of questions he's spent years avoiding.
Until one day, the past comes knocking... and it doesn't come quietly.
A woman he once knew steps back into his world carrying news that shifts everything. Not just his choices, but the way he sees himself. The way he's been moving. The way he's been loving... or not loving at all.
And suddenly, the life he's been juggling starts to slip through his fingers.
Because when you've been performing long enough, there comes a moment when the mask gets heavy. When the charm stops working. When the silence you've been running from finally catches up.
What unfolds is not just about consequences. It's about confrontation. About a man being forced to sit with the parts of himself he buried under swagger and distraction. The grief he never processed. The abandonment he never named. The habits that looked like freedom but felt a whole lot like hiding.
This story doesn't rush redemption. It doesn't pretend change is easy.
It leans into the uncomfortable truth that healing is a process... one that asks you to be honest before it ever lets you be whole.
And maybe, just maybe, Christian is finally ready to tell himself the truth.
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