How to Fix a Family

Short Book Description

How to Fix a Family is a quiet, deeply emotional novel about regret, second chances, and the fragile architecture of human connection.

Silas Whitmore makes a living pretending to be the perfect father for strangers. Calm, respectable, dependable — exactly the kind of man wealthy families need for school meetings, formal dinners, and carefully managed appearances.

But behind the polished performances is a man who abandoned his own son twelve years ago.

When Silas accepts a high-paying long-term assignment, he discovers the client is Alden — the son he left behind. Worse still, Alden doesn’t hire him as family. He hires him as a service.

Now forced to play the role of a loving father in public while remaining a stranger in private, Silas must navigate a carefully constructed arrangement built on rules, distance, and old wounds that never truly healed.

Set against rain-soaked city streets, quiet cafés, and the loneliness hidden inside respectable lives, How to Fix a Family is a moving story about guilt, forgiveness, and whether broken people can ever find their way back to each other.