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The Distance Between Home
Paperback
Series: The Inheritance of Grace, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 21 2026
Pages: 582
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Home is more than a place. Sometimes, it is the distance we are willing to cross to find our way back to one another.
In The Distance Between Home, the second book in The Inheritance of Grace Series, the story of the Whitmore-Mercer family continues as the consequences of the past give way to a different challenge: learning how to live with what cannot be changed.
Thomas has spent years trying to repair what addiction, absence, regret, and buried family secrets left behind. But returning is only the beginning. As his relationships with Danny, Grace, Claire, Carolyn, and the rest of the family deepen, Thomas begins to understand that redemption does not mean reclaiming everything he lost. It means learning to remain present without controlling what happens next.
Claire must decide where-and with whom-she truly belongs. Danny confronts what it means to carry a family history without being trapped by it. Carolyn begins to emerge from the role of the woman who simply stayed, revealing a story and identity entirely her own. And as one generation looks toward the next, the family must decide which parts of its inheritance deserve to be preserved and which should finally be released.
Through ordinary dinners, difficult conversations, old letters, forgotten photographs, inherited tools, and a porch light that continues to illuminate the way home, the family discovers that healing is rarely a single dramatic moment. It happens slowly-in boundaries respected, truths allowed to coexist, relationships given room to change, and love offered without demanding that the past be forgotten.
Warm, emotional, and deeply reflective, The Distance Between Home is a story about family, forgiveness, recovery, generational wounds, second chances, and the complicated meaning of home.
Because families do not share just one story.
They carry many.
And sometimes grace is found not in recovering the life that was lost, but in finally embracing the life that is still ahead.
The Distance Between Home
Book Two of The Inheritance of Grace Series
by Owen James Adams
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