The Empty Chair
Betty Bontrager
After years spent as her mother's devoted caregiver, Rachel Schrock finds herself alone in a house filled with silence, her youth and dreams seemingly sacrificed to duty.
Convinced her season for love has passed, she is navigating a future of quiet solitude. But a chance encounter with a widower, Noah Miller, and his two grieving children—Miriam and Levi—challenges her beliefs about worth and purpose.
As she's drawn into their lives, offering comfort and domestic wisdom, she grapples with a difficult can she open her heart to a new kind of love, or will she let fear and the expectations of others keep her in the shadows?

