<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Quiet on the Porch</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>&nbsp;is a nuanced multi-generational novella set in a small Midwestern town that examines the intricate dynamics of family secrets love and redemption.</span></p><p></p><h3><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Family is the story we inherit-and the one we choose to tell.</em></h3><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Janelle Goodman was coming home to marry; instead she attended a funeral.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Raised on Liberty Lane in Oakwood Township a small Midwestern town where porches have witnessed generations of joys losses and whispered truths Janelle built a life in Chicago but never truly left the pull of home-or Julien her childhood sweetheart.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When her father dies suddenly the shock reverberates through Oakwood Township a town where the Goodman porch watched over generations of family joys heartaches and unspoken truths.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But grief isn't the only thing waiting for Janelle. Her return sets in motion a chain of revelations that will reopen old wounds and force a reckoning with the legacy she's inherited. In the place she once felt safest Janelle must navigate a tangle of love truth and legacy-and decide who&nbsp;to hold on to and what to let go.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tender evocative and deeply human&nbsp;</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Quiet on the Porch</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>&nbsp;is a story about legacy identity and the quiet moments that change everything.</span></p><p></p>