If I Were A Better Man

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm not a good man.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've lost the only two women I've ever loved.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've been divorced twice.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've been cut off from my family and their wealth.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've been to rehab.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>None of that makes me irredeemable. But the truth is I set fire to everything good in my life. A traumatic event in my past poisoned me from the inside out twisting me into someone unrecognizable. I numbed the pain with substances treated women like they were disposable and kept what little was left of my heart locked behind an impenetrable wall.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then after yet another DUI fate intervened. Someone from my past offered me a way out a second chance.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fate is funny like that. Maybe in the blink of an eye you get one last shot at something real... And maybe this time... I'll be the man who deserves it.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is book one in the Fated Hearts of River View series and can be read as a standalone. However to get the back story on the characters they are originally seen in Charlotte's universe in the Ties That Bind Series. This book contains spoilers for Charlotte's story.</strong></p><p></p>