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The Tree Went Dark - Hardcover

House, Micah

 
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Synopsis

Christmas morning was supposed to be a day of joy for the Calhoun family.

Instead, a devastating tragedy claims the life of young Bryson Calhoun, leaving a family shattered and a grandfather burdened by an unbearable guilt.

In the days and months that follow, grief settles over the family in ways none of them could have imagined. Anger takes the place of affection. Blame threatens relationships that have endured for generations. And the people who once found comfort in one another begin to discover just how far apart heartbreak can drive them.

For Ray and Patty Calhoun, the loss of their son threatens more than their happiness. It tests their marriage, their faith, and their ability to hold together a family coming apart beneath the weight of one terrible morning.

As loyalties are tested and painful choices made, each member of the family must confront a question with no easy answer.

How do you forgive someone for something that can never be undone?

And perhaps the harder question still: How do you forgive yourself?

The Tree Went Dark is a deeply emotional novel about love, loss, guilt, and the fragile bonds that hold families together. It explores the uncomfortable truth that forgiveness doesn't erase what happened, healing doesn't mean forgetting, and sometimes the people we love most are the ones we find hardest to forgive.

Because some tragedies don't end when the worst is over. They continue in the lives of everyone left behind.

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About the Author

Micah House is an award-winning Southern author, whose character-driven novels cross multiple genres exploring the deeper emotions of human experience and the complicated ways we love, grieve, survive, forgive, and sometimes fail one another-usually with a healthy dose of humor along the way. Whether writing domestic fiction, contemporary fantasy, horror, or Southern family drama, House places character at the center, combining emotional intimacy with humor, suspense, and, when the story calls for it, haunting imagery.

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