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Bellevue, Idaho
After repeated pregnancy loss, Hannah begins opening her table to other people in Bellevue, Idaho. Offering them a place in her life may mean accepting something harder for her: care she cannot arrange or control.
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The Whitakers
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In 1971, Eli Park arrives in Charleston with a photograph, a returned letter, and a question for Graham Whitaker. On Sullivan’s Island, a family must learn how to make room for a son they never knew—and for the lives that already fill their home.
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A wildfire takes a family’s home and workshop in Summersville, West Virginia. As they begin again, rebuilding becomes more than practical work: it asks which parts of their old life they can carry into a different future.
LOVE
Nashville, Tennessee
In Nashville, two friends find their loyalty tested by musical ambition, family pressure, and questions of creative ownership. Staying beside each other will require more than shared history when telling the truth carries a cost.
WISDOM
Asheville, North Carolina
An Asheville master carpenter knows how to make things hold. His adult daughter’s future calls for a different kind of judgment, as he discovers the limits of a father’s skill when someone else must choose.
COURAGE
Greenville, South Carolina
A construction professional in Greenville discovers a serious safety problem. Speaking could protect people she has never met while threatening her livelihood and the business she built with her brother. Silence carries its own responsibility.
MERCY
Savannah, Georgia
Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask.
PEACE
Abingdon, Virginia
In Abingdon, a daughter inherits her father’s unfinished property dispute. A workshop, a blocked gate, and old wounds draw her into a question of loyalty: how much of another person’s fight should become her own?
TRUTH
Fairhope, Alabama
A newspaper editor in Fairhope discovers that her late father’s public record needs correcting. Honoring the man she loved and meeting her responsibility to the truth may require choices that cannot protect every reputation.
FAITH
Bellevue, Idaho
After repeated pregnancy loss, Hannah begins opening her table to other people in Bellevue, Idaho. Offering them a place in her life may mean accepting something harder for her: care she cannot arrange or control.
HOPE
Summersville, West Virginia
A wildfire takes a family’s home and workshop in Summersville, West Virginia. As they begin again, rebuilding becomes more than practical work: it asks which parts of their old life they can carry into a different future.
LOVE
Nashville, Tennessee
In Nashville, two friends find their loyalty tested by musical ambition, family pressure, and questions of creative ownership. Staying beside each other will require more than shared history when telling the truth carries a cost.
WISDOM
Asheville, North Carolina
An Asheville master carpenter knows how to make things hold. His adult daughter’s future calls for a different kind of judgment, as he discovers the limits of a father’s skill when someone else must choose.
COURAGE
Greenville, South Carolina
A construction professional in Greenville discovers a serious safety problem. Speaking could protect people she has never met while threatening her livelihood and the business she built with her brother. Silence carries its own responsibility.
MERCY
Savannah, Georgia
Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask.
PEACE
Abingdon, Virginia
In Abingdon, a daughter inherits her father’s unfinished property dispute. A workshop, a blocked gate, and old wounds draw her into a question of loyalty: how much of another person’s fight should become her own?
TRUTH
Fairhope, Alabama
A newspaper editor in Fairhope discovers that her late father’s public record needs correcting. Honoring the man she loved and meeting her responsibility to the truth may require choices that cannot protect every reputation.
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