Loved

Some stories begin with silence.

Kade Brauer grew up with a good father, a loving family, and a story he'd been given before he was old enough to question it. For fifty years, he carried that story and the hollow place it left through a childhood in the Midwest, a career in the Navy, a marriage, a son, and a life that was, by any measure, full and good.

But underneath all of it, a door he'd decided not to open.

LOVED is the story of what happened when he finally opened it. Told by his wife Sara, it is a book about identity and belonging, about the stories we inherit and the ones we have the courage to question, about a family in a small Alabama town that kept a photograph and fifty years of stories, waiting for the right person to come ask for them.

It is also a book about what it means to be found. Not just by the people who were looking for you, but by the truth of who you have always been.

He was always loved. He just didn't know it yet.