He made her his fourth wife.

He never expected her to take the story back.

Maya Hart was not looking for love when Robert Bainbridge entered her life. She was capable, generous, educated, and quietly content — a woman with a future of her own.

Robert was charming, successful, polished, and persuasive. He had three ex-wives, an explanation for every failed marriage, and a gift for making a woman feel chosen before making her responsible for everything he destroyed.

At first, Maya believes she has found love.

But love should not cost a woman her voice.

Over twenty-one years and eight months, Maya’s world becomes smaller. The lies grow sharper. The blame becomes routine. Money becomes control. Kindness becomes something used against her. Her confidence, career, friendships, family ties, and sense of self are slowly worn down by a man who always knows how to appear reasonable — especially when he is destroying her.

Even after the marriage ends, Robert is not finished.

One final message reaches across the years: calculated, venomous, and designed to wound. But this time, Maya is no longer the woman who kept quiet to survive.

This time, she is ready to tell the truth.

His Fourth: Love, Lies, Freedom is a powerful literary novel about coercive control, emotional abuse, financial abuse, gaslighting, motherhood, sisterhood, faith, survival, and the long road back to selfhood.

It is not a story about weakness.

It is a story about the woman who survived the version of herself a man tried to create — and finally reclaimed her own.

For readers of emotionally intense literary fiction, psychological women’s fiction, domestic abuse survivor stories, and novels about women reclaiming their lives after toxic marriages.

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