Footsteps on the Porch

Of all the dozens of ways Jake Kincaid imagined his fifteenthwedding anniversary, a State Trooper standing at his front doorwas not one of them.On the morning of their fifteenth wedding anniversary, JakeKincaid gives his wife a red Mustang convertible—and hours laterloses her and his thirteen-year-old daughter forever.Left to raise his grieving eleven-year-old son while battling his owngrief—and the resurfacing weight of a buried childhood trauma—Jakewalks away from his successful life in Charlotte and retreats with hisson to a quiet coastal town in North Carolina. There, a temporary jobas a mailman becomes something more when Miss Margaret, a sharp-witted seventy-nine-year-old British woman, challenges him to seeeach delivery not as a task, but as an opportunity.Behind every front door, Jake begins to uncover hidden pain, quietdesperation, and stories longing to be toldAs he steps into the lives of hurting residents, Jake discovers thathealing doesn’t come through answers, but through showing up andlistening. And when he meets Miss Margaret’s granddaughter Maggie,an unexpected connection begins to restore what he thought was lostforever.Sometimes, the only way to find your life again… is to give it away.