The Long Way Home

When Caleb Reeves left Millhaven, Georgia, he told himself he'd be back by Friday.That was eleven years ago.Now his father is gone — found in a church parking lot on a Tuesday morning — and Caleb is on the first flight home, carrying everything he ran from and the growing certainty that he can't run from it anymore.What he finds waiting for him is more than a funeral. It's a prayer journal filled with his name. A letter his father wrote and sealed, believing his son would come back. A brother who stayed and worked and never once forgot what Caleb cost him. A woman he asked to wait who found a way forward without him. And a community whose roots run deeper than his eleven years of absence.The Long Way Home is the story of a man who made real mistakes, covered them with more mistakes, and built a careful life around not looking back — and the God who never stopped watching the road.Rooted in the parable of the Prodigal Son and set against the warmth and weight of a small Southern town, this is a novel about what it actually costs to come home. Not the easy kind of coming home. The kind where you have to tell the whole truth to people who deserve to hear it. The kind where grace isn't a feeling — it's a decision made by someone who had every reason not to. Read more