{"product_id":"the-weight-of-fourteen-years-broken-love-9798171362232","title":"The Weight of Fourteen Years: A Father's Story of Love, Deception, and the Boy Who Was Never His","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime doesn't heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just gives the rot room to grow.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was twenty-four years old when I stood outside a hospital nursery window, looking at a baby boy wrapped in a striped blanket. He didn't have my hair. He didn't have my eyes. But I made a vow that night in the freezing Michigan winter: \u003ci\u003eI am your dad. And I will never leave you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fourteen years, I kept that promise. I built a business. I bought a house with a backyard. I raised two boys, surviving a brutal divorce to give them a quiet, safe, ordinary life. I buried the terrible, lingering doubts about my youngest son's paternity deep in the dirt, convinced that keeping the secret was the price of being a good father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought we were bulletproof.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut secrets don't stay buried. They are living things. They need air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a rainy Tuesday night, a stranger knocks on my ex-wife's door and detonates a fourteen-year-old lie right in my son's face. The truth is finally out: the boy I chose to love was never mine by blood. And his real father isn't just a ghost-he's a man serving life in a state penitentiary for murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, everything I built is in jagged pieces on the floor. My ex-wife's deception threatens to drag all of us under. My oldest son is consumed by a violent rage. And my youngest boy is slipping away from me into a terrifying darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo save my family, I have to stop playing defense. I have to go to war. But as the collateral damage mounts, I am forced to face the hardest question of my life: \u003ci\u003eAm I fighting this battle to protect my son, or to destroy the woman who broke us?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Weight of Fourteen Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a raw, devastating, and ultimately triumphant domestic family drama. Perfect for readers who crave deeply emotional fiction, heartbreaking betrayals, and stories that prove blood doesn't make a father-love does.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGet your copy today to discover a story you will never forget.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Broken Love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798171362232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Broken Love","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546052432127,"sku":"9798171362232","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e114461-b1f9-4d0a-9b25-2a473b93d558.jpg?v=1790534931","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-weight-of-fourteen-years-broken-love-9798171362232","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}