Chance

An inspirational memoir about trauma, faith, and resilience from debut author Roberts Essex.

Sometimes the road intended is not always the one traveled. 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. Chance Beginnings is the true story of a Savannah boy shaped by faith, family, and the unrelenting tides of time. It is a memoir about resilience and overcoming tragedy, a book about finding God through pain and suffering, and a true story of redemption and spiritual healing that has resonated with readers in trauma recovery communities, men's groups, and faith-based reading circles across the country.

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.

Inside Chance Beginnings:
A childhood trauma survivor's path through faith and healingOne of the best memoirs about childhood trauma and forgiveness in 2026A father's hard-won fight against intergenerational traumaBreaking generational cycles as a father and choosing differentlyA Southern story of forgiveness and redemption set in 1960s East SavannahAn inspirational story for anyone who has ever had to start over
What readers are saying:

"Haunting, deeply personal, and quietly hopeful. One of the best faith-based books for trauma recovery communities I have read in years."

Buy this inspirational memoir about trauma and faith today. Featured in USA Today. No matter where you come from, your beginning does not define your ending.