Julian had spent nine days sleeping in his car after his father threw him out with nothing but three plastic bags. Hungry, exhausted, and convinced that he had been abandoned by everyone who was supposed to care about him, he never imagined that his life was about to change completely. Behind a restaurant, with his dead car serving as a makeshift desk, an attorney named Gerald Ashford opened a leather folder and told Julian that his grandfather had left him an inheritance.

The revelation was almost impossible to believe. Gerald explained that Julian’s grandfather had known exactly what kind of man Julian’s father was, so he had built a powerful protection into the estate. Everything would belong to Julian alone, while his father, stepmother, and stepbrother were specifically excluded. More shocking still, Julian learned that his grandfather had spent years sending support checks that his father secretly kept. Gerald then told him the value of the estate. Julian sat down hard on the pavement, realizing his life had just changed forever.