Chance

<p><strong>An inspirational memoir about trauma faith and resilience from debut author Roberts Essex.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>Sometimes the road intended is not always the one traveled.</em> On a cold rainy Southern morning a boy is born with a bent back to a young God-fearing mother in a world already in chaos. The doctor tells her to prepare for the worst. She names him anyway. <strong>Chance Beginnings</strong> is the true story of a Savannah boy shaped by <strong>faith family and the unrelenting tides of time</strong>. It is a <strong>memoir about resilience and overcoming tragedy</strong> a <strong>book about finding God through pain and suffering</strong> and a <strong>true story of redemption and spiritual healing</strong> that has resonated with readers in <strong>trauma recovery</strong> communities men's groups and <strong>faith-based reading circles</strong> across the country.</p><p></p><p>Roberts Essex spent four decades working as a police officer a paramedic and a physician assistant before he wrote his first sentence. After a thirteen-year marriage ended in his mid-thirties he went back to college as a single father graduated as an English honors major and waited until his sixties to write the book he had been carrying his whole life.</p><p></p><p><strong>Inside Chance Beginnings:</strong></p><p></p><ul><li>A <strong>childhood trauma</strong> survivor's path through <strong>faith and healing</strong></li><li>One of the <strong>best memoirs about childhood trauma and forgiveness</strong> in 2026</li><li>A father's hard-won fight against <strong>intergenerational trauma</strong></li><li><strong>Breaking generational cycles as a father</strong> and choosing differently</li><li>A Southern story of <strong>forgiveness and redemption</strong> set in 1960s East Savannah</li><li>An <strong>inspirational story</strong> for anyone who has ever had to start over</li></ul><p></p><p><strong>What readers are saying:</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Haunting deeply personal and quietly hopeful. One of the best faith-based books for trauma recovery communities I have read in years.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>A memoir with the flavor of Walden and Grisham and a palette between Spielberg and Disney.</em>-Roberts Essex on his own book <strong>Chance Beginnings</strong> is volume one of three. <em>The Search</em> and <em>A New Life</em> follow. Now is the time to start the trilogy from the beginning before volume two drops and the conversation moves on.</p><p></p><p><strong>Buy this inspirational memoir about trauma and faith today.</strong> Featured in <strong>USA Today</strong>. No matter where you come from your beginning does not define your ending.</p>