The Road Home Hardcover – Large Print, March 7, 2026

Ember Brooks has built the perfect adult life—prestigious career, fierce friends, and a polished independence she wears like armor. But her heart has never truly recovered from the boy who helped raise her, protected her, and left without explanation: Jake Moultrie.When Ember begins dating Ethan Dolenz, a confident, devoted executive who offers her stability, security, and the kind of love that makes sense, she believes she’s finally moving forward. Ethan is patient, intentional, and all-in—everything she should want. But as Ember tries to step into a future she’s earned, the past resurfaces in ways she can’t ignore: old journals, buried grief, and the quiet ache of first love that never received an ending.As her relationship with Ethan deepens, Ember is forced to confront the truth she has avoided for years—she can’t give her whole heart to someone new until she finally faces the man who still owns the parts of her she never healed. And when the road back home becomes unavoidable, Ember must decide whether closure is enough… or whether the love she never stopped carrying is the only one she was ever meant to come back to. Read more