Love was right before Sarah Vandergriff’s eyes all the while, but she refused to see it. Bryan Wimberly had loved her from the time of their early teen years. She liked him in return, but not in the way he wanted her to like him. He was her best chum. Even her confidant. He was the one she enjoyed being with. Why couldn’t he just be content to be that close friend to her? Why did he have to want so much more?

There was nothing amiss about Bryan in her judgement. He simply was not what she believed she desired in a man. That ideal man would be a very masculine and sophisticated man. He would be a man of the world. Rugged, mysterious, and the image of the knight in shining armour who would come to her, capture her hand and heart and carry her away to his mysterious and romantic castle far away.

Then she met a man like that. Two such men, actually. But they both turned out to not be what her dreams had always told her such a man like that would be like. In life, not dreams and fairy tales.

Then everything changed for Sarah. In a moment’s time, her world changed, and nothing would ever be the same again. The accident left her without the use of her legs. She would never walk again. And, to make it worse, if it could possibly be worse, the man of her dreams, the kind she had dreamed of since her youth, and the one who had promised to make her his wife, betrayed and abandoned her. Now she knew. No man would want her. Of that she was convinced.

But Bryan wanted her. He had never wavered in his love for her. What would it take to get her to see what was there all along?

You first met Sarah Vandergriff and Bryan Wimberly in the first book of the series, ‘A Ship Called Abigail.’ Both just kids, just now thirteen years old, they quickly became the best of friends. For Sarah, Bryan was her best chum. For Bryan, his feelings were more.

Now in the concluding story of the series, ‘An Empty Quiet Place,’ both are now grown into young adults. Still close as friends, Sarah’s still sees him as just her closest friend, while Bryan’s feelings for her have grown to become so much more.

For everyone who has desperately prayed for a loved one, even when that loved one has given up on themself, and loses all hope. But you have not given up on them. And you will keep praying for them.

This is Book 4 of the ‘Legacy of Abigail’ series. The story in this volume is complete on its own, but surely you will want to read more. There is enough of the backstory contained within this story, if you have not read the prior volumes to enjoy and understand this story. Bryan Wimberly and Sarah Vandergriff have now grown up. This final volume in the series is their story.