Better Man

Oliver Davidson is barely scraping by—working as a waiter, one month behind on rent, going nowhere fast. Then his doppelgänger walks into the café.Grayson (Mick) Merrick is everything Oliver isn't: successful estate attorney, perfect family, gorgeous home in West Austin. He's also a cheating, manipulative husband who wants a weekend away from his wife and kids to meet his mistress in Aspen.The proposal is simple: trade places for one weekend. Oliver takes Mick's place, accompanying his wife to a high school reunion while the real Mick disappears. Five hundred dollars. Easy money.Oliver agrees. He's desperate. It's just one weekend.But when Mick's plane crashes into a mountainside, Oliver faces an impossible choice: confess the fraud and watch this family shatter or keep living the lie and become the man they need.As Oliver steps into Mick's life, he discovers a wife who's been emotionally abandoned for years, kids starving for attention, and a home that's never felt like one. He finds himself playing catch in the front yard, attending baseball games, having family dinners—all the things the real Mick couldn't be bothered with.And he falls in love. With Lillian. With Brecken and Georgia. With a life that was never meant to be his.When the truth finally comes out, it threatens to destroy everything. But maybe, just maybe, the wrong man was exactly what this family needed all along.