The Whitaker House Series
The Whitaker House Series
by Reid T. Sbok
The Whitaker house has stood quietly on its land for generations.
It is not the largest house in town.
It is not the oldest.
But within its walls a family was built—one decision at a time.
Robert and Eleanor Whitaker began their lives with very little. Both grew up in foster care, moving from home to home without the promise of permanence. When they finally found one another, they made a simple choice.
They would build a life that lasted.
The old house on the edge of town became the center of that promise. Over the years, three children arrived—each adopted after tragedy, each welcomed into a family that believed love was stronger than circumstance.
Long after Robert and Eleanor are gone, their children begin discovering the quiet history their parents left behind. Through letters, records, and memories hidden within the house itself, the Whitaker siblings slowly uncover the story of how their family came to be.
And they must decide what the Whitaker house will become for the generations still to come.
Set in a peaceful rural town, The Whitaker House series follows the lives of the Whitaker family across generations as they build homes, raise families, and discover that belonging is not something we inherit—it is something we create.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
• multigenerational family stories
• wholesome small-town fiction
• Amish-style family sagas
• heartfelt stories about home and belonging
Sometimes the strongest roots are the ones we plant ourselves.
The Whitaker House
The Whitaker House Series Book 1
The Whitaker House – Book One: Adoption
by Reid T. Sbok
After the funeral of their mother, three siblings return to the old Whitaker house to settle the estate.
The house has stood on the land for generations.
Every room holds memories.
Every drawer holds a piece of the past.
As they begin the long process of sorting through their parents’ belongings, the three siblings uncover something they never expected to find.
Adoption papers.
One by one, the truth emerges.
They were all adopted.
Their parents had never told them.
What begins as a simple task of cleaning out an old house slowly becomes a journey into the quiet history of the family that raised them.
The siblings follow the records left behind by their parents—foster care files, hospital documents, and fragments of stories from towns they have never visited. Along the way they discover that each of them was brought into the Whitaker home after tragedy.
But the deeper they search, the more they begin to understand something unexpected.
Their parents had built more than a house.
They had built a family.
And the legacy they left behind may shape the future of the land itself.
Set against the peaceful backdrop of small-town life, The Whitaker House is a warm and thoughtful story about adoption, belonging, and the meaning of family.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
• Amish-style family sagas
• heartfelt generational stories
• clean and wholesome fiction
• small-town settings
• emotional but peaceful storytelling
Sometimes the strongest families are the ones we build.
The First House
The Whitaker House Series Book 2
A house can be built from lumber and stone. A home takes something more.
Thomas Whitaker has spent most of his life building houses for other people.
He has never needed one of his own.
After the discoveries that changed the Whitaker family forever, Thomas, Samuel, and Margaret are left with one final piece of their father's plans: a map dividing the family land into three parcels, each bearing one of their names.
Robert Whitaker left them land.
He didn't leave instructions.
When Thomas becomes the first sibling to decide to build, what begins as a straightforward construction project soon becomes something far more personal.
Every decision forces him to confront a question he never expected to face. How do you build a new home when leaving the old one feels like leaving part of your family behind?
With Samuel working beside him, Margaret quietly considering her own future, and Clara Bennett becoming an unexpected part of his life, Thomas begins to understand that honoring the past doesn't mean preserving everything exactly as it was.
A window can still face the old family house.
A porch can welcome new people.
A table can be built with room for a family that doesn't exist yet.
And across the Whitaker land, one house can become two without either one becoming less of a home.
The Adoption House
The Whitaker House Series Book 3
The house that gave them a family is about to make room for someone new.
Thomas Whitaker has already built a home of his own, leaving Margaret and Samuel in the house where Robert and Eleanor raised them. But as the three siblings look toward their separate futures, one question remains:
What should become of the family home?
Selling it is out of the question. Leaving it empty someday seems even worse.
Then Margaret begins to see another possibility.
The bedrooms that once belonged to the Whitaker children could offer a temporary home to children waiting for families of their own. Robert's old table could still be surrounded by people. And the house that once welcomed Thomas, Samuel, and Margaret could become known by a new name:
The Adoption House.
As the family works to give the old house a new purpose, Margaret begins building a future of her own beside her beloved garden and greenhouse. Samuel starts wondering whether his empty parcel might finally become something more. And Ben Anderson, a thoughtful man connected with the new program, begins to occupy a place in Margaret's life she never expected.
When the first suitcase is carried through the door, the Whitakers discover that making room for someone new doesn't erase the people who came before.
And sometimes an empty bedroom doesn't mean someone has been lost.
Sometimes it means something worked.
The Adoption House is Book Three in the Whitaker House series, a warm family saga about adoption, home, changing families, new beginnings, and the lasting meaning of belonging.
The House Remains
The Whitaker House Series Book 4
Book Four of the Whitaker House Series
The Whitaker children are leaving home one by one. But the house Robert and Eleanor built their family in has never mattered more.
Samuel Whitaker is the last of the three siblings still living in the original family home. Thomas has built a life with Clara. Margaret has her own house beside the greenhouse. Now Samuel is finally building too.
His departure, however, creates a problem no one considered.
The old Whitaker home is now the Adoption House, a temporary home for children who need safety, stability, and someone there through the night. Once Samuel moves out, the family must find a way to keep that promise.
As Thomas and Clara prepare for marriage, Margaret and Ben grow closer, and Samuel watches the walls of his own house rise, the Whitakers create a new overnight rotation that keeps everyone connected to the home they once shared.
Then new children arrive, old rooms find new purposes, and Rachel Morris becomes increasingly involved in the life of the Adoption House—and in Samuel's.
Through weddings, departures, new beginnings, and Sunday dinners around Robert and Eleanor's table, the Whitakers discover that a family home isn't defined by who owns a bedroom or sleeps beneath its roof.
People can leave and still come back.
And sometimes the house that remains is the one that continues making room.
The House That Remains is a warm, character-driven story about family, adoption, community, marriage, and the enduring meaning of home.
The House That Waited
The Whitaker House Series Book 5
Two empty bedrooms were never supposed to change Samuel Whitaker's life.
The Whitaker family has grown accustomed to making room.
The original family home has become the Adoption House, a place where children can find safety while the adults around them work toward whatever comes next. Thomas and Clara have begun married life. Margaret and Ben are preparing for their wedding. And Samuel is comfortable in the house he built for himself—complete with two bedrooms he has never needed.
Then an urgent call comes.
Eight-year-old twins Matthew and Emily need somewhere to go, and above everything else, they need to stay together.
Samuel has two bedrooms.
He soon discovers that having empty rooms is the easy part.
Meals, school, homework, bedtime, forgotten shoes, favorite cereals, and the thousand ordinary responsibilities of caring for two children begin transforming Samuel's carefully ordered life. At the same time, Rachel is becoming such a natural part of his household that Samuel can no longer remember exactly when she stopped feeling like a visitor.
Meanwhile, Andrew faces a very different possibility. His mother is working to rebuild the life that once failed him, forcing Samuel to confront a difficult truth: loving a child does not always mean keeping him.
Sometimes love means making room.
Sometimes it means letting go.
And sometimes a house built for one person has simply been waiting for the family that will eventually fill it.
The House That Waited is Book Five of the Whitaker House Series, a warm, character-driven family saga about adoption, belonging, second chances, and the many ways a house becomes a home.
Making Room
The Whitaker House Series Book 6
Some stay. Some leave. Love makes room for both.
The Whitaker family has learned that opening a home to someone also means accepting that one day they may leave.
At the Adoption House, Nora has the opportunity she has been waiting for—a permanent family of her own. Soon Grace and Peter arrive, each carrying different fears and learning in different ways what it means to trust a home that promises to stay.
Then tragedy brings Andrew back.
After losing his mother in a terrible accident, Andrew returns to the Whitakers injured, grieving, and uncertain where he belongs. Samuel stands beside him, but there are questions even Samuel cannot answer yet.
Meanwhile, Samuel's own family continues to change. Matthew and Emily have made his house their home. Rachel has become part of their everyday lives. And when Samuel begins adding two more bedrooms, even he cannot fully explain who they are for.
Perhaps he doesn't need to know.
Because Robert and Eleanor Whitaker left their children more than land and a house. They left them an understanding that family isn't measured by how many chairs are already occupied.
It's measured by whether you're willing to pull up another one.
Making Room, Book Six of the Whitaker House Series, is a warm, emotional family novel about adoption, loss, healing, second chances, and the extraordinary things that can happen when ordinary people decide there is always room for one more.
The Bridge They Built
The Whitaker House Series Book 7
A home can give you a place to belong. But sometimes, it must also give you a place to begin.
The Whitaker family has spent years making room.
At the Adoption House, children have found safety while waiting for something permanent. Around Robert Whitaker's old table, strangers have slowly become family. And in Samuel's house, two empty bedrooms wait for a future no one is quite ready to name.
Then seventeen-year-old Drew arrives.
He doesn't ask the questions younger children ask. He wants to know about work, money, transportation—and what happens when he turns eighteen.
His questions force Thomas, Margaret, and Samuel Whitaker to confront a problem they understand more personally than most. Their parents, Robert and Eleanor, once left foster care with no family waiting and no home to return to.
The Whitakers know how to build houses.
Now they decide to build a bridge.
As Drew begins an apprenticeship with Whitaker Construction, another young man prepares to leave the Adoption House for a permanent family. Samuel and Rachel prepare for their wedding. And Andrew, still grieving the mother he lost, must decide whether accepting a new family means leaving part of his old one behind.
Soon, a new kind of house begins to rise—a place where young people approaching adulthood can learn to work, manage money, cook, pay bills, and build lives of their own, with someone still home when they return at night.
The Bridge They Built is Book 7 in the Whitaker House Series, a heartwarming story of adoption, foster care, family, second chances, and the understanding that sometimes the greatest gift isn't giving someone a place to stay.
It's giving them a place they can leave without losing.re.