Something Worth Finding

The Mercers were a good family.

That's actually where the trouble started.

Dad coached Little League on Saturdays and never missed a recital. Mom ran the hospitality team at church and kept the calendar color-coded. Their oldest was in everything. Their youngest had a gift for music nobody had quite figured out what to do with yet. From the outside, they looked like a family that had figured it out.

But inside the house, something was missing. And nobody could name it.