The Seat He Let His Grandmother Choose (When His Family Came First #10)

For twenty-five years, Cheryl has laughed off the fact that her husband’s family still seats her at the kids’ table. Then one empty chair makes the joke impossible to tell.

Every holiday, Cheryl arrives with the dishes everyone expects, the things everyone forgot, and the answers everyone assumes she’ll have.

Then she takes her usual seat twelve feet away from her husband.

She has never made a scene about it.

Until Thanksgiving.

There is an empty chair beside Tom.

He sees it. He sees her.

And he sits down anyway.

For the first time in twenty-five years, Cheryl stops smoothing things over. She stops anticipating every need and making his family’s traditions effortless while accepting whatever place they give her.

Tom thinks he knows how to fix it.

He’ll talk to his grandmother. Get Cheryl a seat at the main table. Make everything right before Christmas.

But Cheryl doesn’t want permission to belong.

She needs to know why the man who has loved her well in private has spent twenty-five years letting his family decide where she stands in public.

And if Tom wants to save their marriage, he’s going to have to understand the difference before Christmas gives him another chance to choose.

A later-in-life marriage-in-crisis romance with no cheating, family interference, husband regret, a second-chance marriage, and a hard-won HEA.