Book excerpt: SOMETIMES THE UNEXPECTED CAN BE EVERYTHING YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED. Lucas Varner lived the first five years of his life with an abusive mother and a father that punished him for losing their first child to the state. Lucas knew what it was like to go hungry, to wonder when he would eat again. He knew what sex and drugs were before he could write his own name. From a young age, he had learned to never ask for help, to not ask any questions, and to stay out of everyone’s way. It was something he still couldn’t forget twelve years later. But everyone has their own times to heal, and maybe it’s time for Lucas to find the light at the end of his own dark tunnel.