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The Field Between: What Grows After Survival?
Paperback
Series: The Quiet America Quartet, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 18 2025
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Field Between
Jonathan Vale
After a marriage forged in duty and silence, Ethan Rivers returns to the coastal town he swore he'd left behind. The house is weathered, the land half-wild, and the family he fled still measures love in expectations. He comes back to fix what can be mended-fences, memories, maybe even himself.
Then he meets Noah Bennett, a man whose kindness runs deeper than words. Where Ethan learned survival through obedience, Noah lives by patience and quiet certainty. Together they begin to rebuild a life from the wreckage of past choices, discovering that love isn't something owed or earned-it's something worked for, the way a field learns to grow again after years of neglect.
Set against the shifting seasons of a small New England harbor, The Field Between follows two men as they navigate the long work of forgiveness: of family, of love, of themselves. Through storms and silences, through losses that refuse to stay buried, Ethan and Noah learn that the real act of living is not starting over-it's staying.
Told in lyrical prose and grounded in the textures of rural life-salt air, damp earth, the hum of labor-The Field Between is a story about endurance, intimacy, and the quiet redemption found in ordinary acts of care. It's about what grows after survival, and how we come to recognize home not as a place, but as the work of two hands willing to keep building.
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