​​ABOUT THE BOOK

The House We
​Returned To

When Ruth Callahan dies suddenly, the quiet prairie home she helped build becomes the place her family must return to whether or not they are ready.

Nathan leaves behind the life he built in the city and boards a flight north, carrying questions he has spent years avoiding. Leah finds herself confronting the same Psalm her mother once turned to in life’s darkest moments. And Billy, a U.S. Army Ranger stationed far from home, receives the call no son ever wants to hear.

Originally from North Dakota, the Callahan family had made their life on a farm in Saskatchewan. Now, each of them is making the journey back to the house that shaped them. Along the way, they encounter moments that feel strangely timed conversations that linger in the heart and questions they can no longer ignore.

At the center of it all stands the home, Ruth, filled with faith, warmth, and quiet strength. As the family gathers again under its roof, grief begins to uncover something deeper: the ties that still bind them together, the faith their mother quietly lived, and the future waiting to be built on the land they once called home.

Sometimes the place we return to is the place where we finally understand who we were meant to be.

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