After Their Betrayal, l Became Whole

When her grandfather Walter collapses from a heart attack, sixteen-year-old Wren Callahan rides her bike alone to the hospital—and unwittingly becomes the last thread holding together a family that has been broken for eight years. It all began on Christmas Eve, when Walter said something cruel enough to drive his son Daniel away with his wife, while his stepdaughter Iris walked out into the snow and never truly came back. Starting with one unanswered phone call, Wren slowly draws her father, grandfather, and estranged sister back together. Along the way, she uncovers an unsent letter from her late mother, Elena—a desperate plea for the family to let go of their pride before it is too late. But just as three generations finally begin to reconcile, the Callahan family's four-generation-old bookstore is threatened with foreclosure by the bank. Now the entire family, alongside Theo, Wren's longtime neighbor-turned-love interest, and Ruth, the loyal employee who has stood by the bookstore for eleven years, must reveal their broken family story to the entire town in order to save the place where it all began. This is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl learning that when a family is brave enough to forgive one another, they can build a home far greater than the cramped rooms of pride that once kept them apart.