A Place to Belong: Josephine’s Story – A Shumard Oak Bend Companion Christmas Novella

When a scandal forces Josephine Blake to flee everything she’s ever known, she arrives in a snowy frontier town with little more than a secret and a swollen belly. Shumard Oak Bend wasn’t her destination—but it just might be her rescue. Faced with town gossip, an uncertain future, and a past she can’t undo, Josephine finds unlikely allies in a doctor, a lawman, and a wounded veteran with one arm and a guarded heart.

With Christmas approaching and her baby’s birth imminent, Josephine is offered a second chance—not just at survival, but at belonging. In a marriage of convenience rooted in grace and not romance, she must decide if healing means hiding… or finally being seen.

A Place to Belong is a powerful standalone novella in the Discerning God’s Best series, filled with redemptive hope, heart-tugging romance, and the kind of found family that changes everything.