The Withered Field. Aletheia, #1

Maddie has built her life on faith, routine, and showing up no matter how tired she feels. Nothing seems to change. At home, her children are drifting further out of reach. At work, she spends her days caring for lives that are slowly fading. And in the quiet moments in between, a question she has spent years pushing down begins to surface. What if none of it is working?When something impossible interrupts the ordinary rhythm of her life, Maddie is forced to confront what she believes, what she's been holding onto, and what it really means to keep going when there are no clear answers.
This is a story about faith that doesn't feel strong, hope that doesn't come easily, and the quiet, costly act of not giving up.