A Man of Few Words

On a blustery winter’s afternoon, Casey Henry discovers her father-in-law’s journal concealed in a cedar chest and shares it with her husband, Emmett. They sit together on their bedroom floor, mesmerized. Jackson Henry might have been a man of few words when it came to speech, but his devotion is faithfully committed to paper, echoed by the love letters of his wife. The young couple unearth the kind of love every girl dreams of while wearing her pillowcase veil and singing, “Someday my prince will come.” From the day Emmett’s parents fell in love until the startling conclusion, the young Henrys hold their breath and dab their eyes…