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The Empty Chair - A Platinum Chocolate Family Saga
Paperback
Christian FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781972217351
Publisher: Platinum Chocolate Publishing
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 568
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set in Newark, New Jersey, during the early 1980s, The Empty Chair is an emotional African American family saga about love, addiction and recovery, faith, second chances, and the extraordinary strength found inside an ordinary family.
Nineteen-year-old David Price is determined to build a better future. He works at Tri-State Metal, attends business classes, and saves every dollar he can while slowly discovering the kind of man he wants to become. Beside him is Simone Johnson, a talented seventeen-year-old balancing school, her job at Langston's Bookstore, a growing hair-braiding business, and the painful uncertainty of loving a mother struggling with alcoholism.
When Lorraine enters rehabilitation, everyone around her must learn a difficult lesson: how to love someone through recovery without abandoning their own lives.
Aunt Clara keeps her home-and her heart-open. Walter is forced to confront what it means to truly show up as a father. Raymond and Denise begin discovering dreams of their own. And as David and Simone's young love deepens, two families slowly find themselves becoming one.
Through it all, one chair remains empty.
At family gatherings, they leave a place for Lorraine-not for the woman addiction has made her, but for the woman they still believe she can become.
As Thanksgiving gives way to Christmas and a new year approaches, Lorraine must confront temptation, fear, old wounds, and the damaging man from her past. Her family can encourage her. They can pray for her. They can leave the light on and a chair waiting.
But they cannot choose recovery for her.
That choice must be Lorraine's.
Written with warmth, faith, and emotional honesty, The Empty Chair is a clean, inspirational historical family saga woven with coming-of-age, young love, addiction and recovery, forgiveness, resilience, and the enduring power of family. It is a story for readers who believe redemption can be difficult, healing can take time, and sometimes the greatest expression of love is simply making sure there is still a place at the table.
Some seats are never meant to remain empty forever.
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