Come Home. The Still Here Chronicles

Some distances can't be measured in miles. Mike is back. Physically, he never left - not for long, anyway. But the man his family needed has been somewhere else for years, unreachable behind walls built from duty, suppression, and the kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. His marriage is fraying. His kids are growing up in the shadow of his absence. And Mike doesn't know how to close the gap between who he is and who they need him to be. Come Home is a story about the invisible deployments - the ones that happen inside a man long after the uniform comes off.
It's about what it means to show up not just in body but in spirit, and how hard that is when the spirit has been worn down to almost nothing. Mike's story is one of relational fracture, the quiet grief of missing your own life, and the courage it takes to walk back toward the people who are still waiting. This is the book for the families who stayed, and for the men who are finally ready to come back to them.