After years in court fighting to protect my relationship with my daughter, I reached a point where stepping back was the only way to keep her safe. That realisation hit hard. My greatest fear was not simply losing time with her — it was losing my narrative.
I did not want my story rewritten, twisted, or left in fragments for the day she came looking for answers.

So I started writing.
At first the words were scattered. I was trying to capture memories, lessons, and ordinary moments before they slipped away. I did not want her growing up with only one version of events. I wanted her to have the full picture: the context, the truth, and the heart behind my absence.

I worked with psychologists and trusted people in my life to shape those words — not to defend myself or to relive the past, but to create something honest and complete. Something she could read without confusion or doubt.

That process taught me something larger. There are many fathers in the same position — men who love deeply but have been silenced by circumstance, who want their children to feel the love that never stopped, and who struggle to put those feelings into words when the stakes feel so high.

Summit Legacy exists to give those fathers a way forward. A guided letter structure that lets them speak freely and with dignity. A way to answer the questions their children will one day ask. A way to preserve the truth, their values, and their presence even when life has made that difficult.