A Debt of Breath (The Seeker Inheritance)

By Johnathan Barker

Tobias trusts work he can finish with his own hands. A repair can be tested. A promise can be counted.

When his young daughter Ruth develops a chronic illness, he undertakes six hundred additional shifts to help maintain clinical equipment. The commitment is personal and finite. The hours it takes from his family will not return.

Some absences are unavoidable. Others begin with work Tobias simply wants to finish. As his children grow, his wife Sela, Ruth and Micah build lives that cannot be measured by his tally. Tobias can repair a faulty support more readily than he can hear what they are asking of him.

Then an account meant to record his service becomes a claim on Micah. Tobias must defend his son's right to his own time while facing a harder question at home: how much gratitude, company and forgiveness has he come to expect for everything he has given?

Spanning thirty years aboard The Seeker, A Debt of Breath follows a father's useful sacrifice and the demands that grow around it. It is the third novel in The Seeker Inheritance, where keeping a family alive and making room for its members to live are different kinds of work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKGNWDMV
• ISBN13: 9798175903684
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.1" x 5.0"