Daughter of a Drunk

"Dear God, I will never, ever, EVER be like my father. I will never drink. I will never hurt people. I will never make my children scared. I promise. Amen."On Easter morning, six-year-old Olivia Parker is on her knees in a cramped Ohio bathroom, wiping vomit off her father's shirt while he shakes on the toilet. In that moment, she makes a sacred promise: she will grow up to be the opposite of this man.Never Like My Father, Book 1 of The Daughter of a Drunk series, follows twelve years of trying to keep that impossible vow. Olivia teaches her little brother where to hide when her father's footsteps turn dangerous, juggles two broken households, shields her mother, and becomes the straight-A "good girl" everyone can rely on. If she's perfect, maybe the chaos will finally stop.But perfection has a cost. As her father's drinking escalates and the family shatters, Olivia learns that loving an alcoholic means carrying secrets that refuse to stay buried, and that walking away from him can break your heart and save your life at the same time.Step onto the bathroom floor beside her. One sacred promise and a girl determined not to break it.

She kept one promise her entire life: never become her father. Then her brother died. And the promise died with him.Olivia Parker was the success story. The girl who escaped. McKinsey consultant who never touched alcohol.When Leo begged for $8,000 to save his life, she said no.Three days later, they found him with a bullet in his head.Now the wine bottles are empty every morning. The viral video of her breakdown has 134,000 views. McKinsey fired her. No one will hire her. She's homeless, broken, and waking up in places she doesn't remember.The bathroom promise she made at six years old is shattering. And she's becoming exactly like the man she spent her whole life running from.This is the fall. Book 3 is the fight. But first, she has to survive rock bottom.A gut-wrenching, compulsively listenable story about addiction, family trauma, and the moment you become the person you swore you'd never be.Book 2 in the 5-book Daughter of a Drunk saga. Complete emotional arc. Can be listened to as standalone. Book 1 provides backstory; Book 3 brings the reckoning.

122 days sober. Four months pregnant. One name that changes everything.Olivia Parker wakes up every morning, choosing not to drink. Every night, she feels the baby fighting. Alive despite the vodka and despite being conceived in violence.Then Detective Smith calls with the DNA results. The man who raped her isn't nameless anymore. Tyler Carrington. Billionaire's son. Her worst nightmare with a name.Olivia could stay quiet. Keep her head down. Raise the baby in safety. But she failed to save Leo. She won't fail again.So she does what she's always done when the world falls apart: she studies. Not to escape. Not to prove she's better than her father. To find his weakness.Her McKinsey skills haven't vanished. And when she discovers what he's hiding, she faces a choice that will either give the baby a future or cost Olivia everything she's fought to rebuild.The compass has been spinning for years. Now the needle's steady. Now she knows which way to go. Books 1-2 were survival. Book 3 is the fight.

Four years sober and Olivia thought she'd broken the pattern.Then she bet everything on revenge.The margin call came at 6:47 AM: deposit $480,000 in 72 hours or lose it all. Olivia didn't have it. But billionaire activist David Keller did. He had the resources, the strategy, and an offer Olivia couldn't refuse.For three weeks, she believes she can finally win.Then Olivia gets a text: The warehouse where Leo died. Storage unit #23. Evidence inside. Come alone. Tonight.Grace is sleeping upstairs. This is exactly what destroyed Olivia's family the first time: choosing revenge over the child who needs her.She goes anyway.What happens in that warehouse isn't evidence. It's a lesson. And by the time Olivia leaves that concrete floor, she understands exactly what it costs to threaten the Carrington empire.Now she has a choice: go home to Grace and accept some truths die with the dead, or keep fighting and find out if she's strong enough to survive what comes next.Book 4 Where Leo Died in The Daughter of a Drunk series. Some women choose their children. Olivia's still learning how.

For seven years, Olivia believed Leo died because she didn't answer his call. The police said drug debt. Eight thousand dollars her brother needed and she refused to send.She was wrong.The evidence is encrypted on six drives hidden in a Chicago bank vault. The only man with the passwords is dying, and Olivia has 72 hours to get them before federal prosecutors lose their case.When she cracks those drives, what's inside rewrites everything she thought she knew about the night Leo died.Now there's a trial. Three months in Chicago, maybe four. Grace is four years old and has already learned that Gamma stays, Mama leaves.This is the choice that destroyed Olivia's father: being right or being present. She promised Grace she'd stop fighting. She promised Leo she'd make them pay.Margaret's not the only Carrington who destroyed lives. And the courtroom isn't the only place this war will be fought.Some battles you win with testimony. Others you win by burning everything to ash.