II Unbelievable

A raw memoir of survival, addiction, incarceration, fatherhood, faith, and the transformation that comes when a man finally confronts himself.

What happens when the life you built begins collapsing around you and you are forced to decide whether you will remain trapped by the man you once were?

In Unbelievable: The Blessing, The Beast & The Burden, Cortney Charles King continues his extraordinary life story through years marked by poverty, street life, addiction, relationships, fatherhood, incarceration, violence, loss, and hard-earned lessons about responsibility.

From the reckless decisions of his youth to the consequences that followed, King does not attempt to sanitize his past. He opens the door to the choices, failures, relationships, ambitions, and struggles that shaped him. Along the way, readers witness the complicated realities of trying to build a family while battling addiction, pursuing money and status, navigating prison, and carrying the psychological weight of a life lived in survival mode.

But this is more than a story about what went wrong.

It is a story about what happens when survival is no longer enough.

Through pain, consequences, faith, fatherhood, and self-reflection, King begins to recognize that some of the greatest battles are not fought against other people, they are fought against the versions of ourselves that refuse to die.

Unbelievable explores the beast, the blessing, and the burden of a life that has been tested repeatedly. It is a story of mistakes and consequences, but also of resilience, redemption, identity, and the possibility of becoming something greater than the circumstances that once defined you.

For readers drawn to raw autobiographical memoirs, inspirational stories of transformation, life-after-incarceration narratives, addiction and recovery journeys, and powerful stories of redemption, Cortney Charles King's story offers an unfiltered look at a life that refuses to remain defined by its darkest chapters.

The past may explain who you were. It does not have to determine who you become.