This manuscript is a story of a widowed man's attempt to clear his wife's name and preserve the memories of her. What makes everything more critical for him is that if he cannot disprove the allegations he will lose a significant amount of his retirement pension, money he depends on due to physical limitations. The story takes place during the Great Recession focusing on the themes of trust and forgiveness.

Desiring power or plunder, there are those who, unknowingly, become pawns, carrying out diabolical schemes at the expense of the vulnerable, or as some would say the . . . expendable. The spiritual forces often at work behind the plans of man remain unseen by most . . . but then, there is Helena. In crossing her path, lives become interwoven by a common bond of unity, as they seek to protect the defenseless.

A Praying Grandmother is a contemporary African-American story of a young girl, Cassandra Austin, and her spiritually powerful grandmother. Cassandra, or Sandy for short, is torn between two extremely opposite realities. One, with her alcoholic, depressed and broken mother who needs her but is unable to love her, and the other with her deeply religious and encouraging grandmother. The story is a rollercoaster ride filled with twists and turns, joys and pains, laughter and tears.

Lorraine Anderson is ready to start her senior year of high school and has everything perfectly planned out. Well, at least she did until Lee Randall showed up. Now he's taking an interest in her, which messes with one major part of her plan - the part where she had planned on not dating. While helping with her sister Carrie Rose's wedding, comforting her brother Tommy about his former girlfriend Molly, and advising her younger sisters about their own boy interests, Lorraine learns to take comfort in what God has for her life. After all, he knows what he has planned for her if she will only listen to the whispers of God's perfect plan. The writer states, "This book came as a result of my realization that there were few, if any, books I had read as a teenager that showed teenagers developing their relationships while maintaining a focus on God. Thus, Lorraine's story was born. Lorraine is designed to be an example for teenage girls on how to keep God the focus of their lives, not the boy, while still showing we all have character flaws."

Captivated by the stories his grandfather told him of life on the high seas, Randy Dodson secretly recorded the accounts. When his grandfather succumbs to Alzheimer's, Randy obeys the prompting of a heavenly visitor to share the stories. Unknown to all those listening to the saga, the narrative is the real life testimony of Captain Ryan Conner, a man who is simultaneously sharing his life story with the passengers on his boat, the Wander Too. While the vessel nears its Asian destination, an acquaintance of the Dodson family joins the Wander Too on its trip, without knowing the connection between the events back home and the story being told aboard the vessel. After the boat arrives in India and drops off two of its passengers, those who remain on board the Wander Too continue on a journey to smuggle Bibles into Myanmar. At this point, both the crew of the boat and those listening to Randy's recordings a half world away are swept up into the intrigue of the Captain's past, which culminates in a jungle compound in the mountains of Burma.

Where does a young boy run when his own parents become his worst nightmare? Justin's story deals with the ten year old's struggle to remain loyal to his father Rick as the man's roller coaster reunion with his estranged wife Brenda quickly accelerates into chaos. Sent to his garage hideaway as yet another of their all-too-familiar battles erupts, Justin begins to fear that this particular din is reaching a new level of hatefulness. He hurries to the front porch, determined to intervene, but arrives seconds too late. Though Rick's sole intention is routing her from their home, a combination of being hit with shattering dishes and tripping on some loose carpet causes they boy's somewhat inebriated father to stumble, discharging his handgun with disastrous consequences. Brenda cannot be saved. As Rick and Justin struggle with the horrendous implications, the boy panics and flees. Justin becomes an unwitting sacrificial lamb in a long ordeal of trying to reunite with his father, yet at the same time trying to lay low lest he betray his beloved father's impossibly dark secret.

This story is about a journey to find a deeper trust in God in spite of and through terrible tragedy and loss. It looks at the nature of God and his promises and challenges the reader to a level of faith that goes beyond easy "Sunday school" answers. It also highlights the importance of prayer in unleashing the power of God in our everyday circumstances. Mostly, it reminds us that God never leaves his children, and that no matter how far we try to run from him, he is always only a prayer away.

In this romantic adventure/suspense, Ashley Thompson finds her world suddenly thrown upside down when her fiancé breaks off their engagement months before the wedding. With no other plans for her future, Ashley hastily accepts a job as a park ranger at Big Bend National Park in a remote area of west Texas. She immediately finds herself clashing with her handsome and stubborn new boss, Logan Everett, who is confident he can handle everything by himself. But both Ashley and Logan soon find themselves in over their heads when they discover illegal treasure hunting in the park. Now they must work together to protect the park and the people in it as they contend with increasing threats to their lives and their growing attraction to each other. Will they survive the perils of the desert and discover the secrets of Lost Mine Peak? Will they learn to trust God's plans for their future and find true love?

Set on a Christian college campus in Nebraska, the story illustrates how God uses tragedy and upheaval to reach people for his purposes and glory. Drew, the Dean of Students, lost his wife and unborn child in a car accident. Allison's father died of a heart attack and she has struggled academically and financially ever since. Chris, the student senate vice president, suffers the devastating effects of his dysfunctional family. As they strive to rebuild their lives, the chaos of suicide, addiction, abuse and crime engulfs them. They fight to maintain control, yet are beaten down by questions that have no answers and Satan's deceptions. When they reach the brink of hopelessness, God pulls them back from Satan's grip. Their eyes are finally opened to God's will and they experience redemption and renewal. Miracles unfold, both earthly and eternal, as they yield to his plans. The message of salvation is clearly presented.

In what might be called "an apologetics novel," the writer extracts the young Brahmin seeking enlightenment from Herman Hesse's short novel Siddhartha and propels the character through actual history. Siddhartha encounters Thoreau and Emerson, Jewish scholars in Dachau, the intellectual element of the 60s counter-culture, the budding Jesus movement of the late 60s, postmodern relativists, Islamic scholars, and Christ himself. Along the way Siddhartha loses what Hesse gave him (the illusion of peaceful integration into the unity of all things) in favor of an understanding of the voice behind the world, the Creator.

When Annie Culligan loses her Grandma Emma, she loses her entire family. With nothing to hold her in tiny Mt. Gilead, Ohio, she heads west to Nevada City, California, with a beat-up suitcase and fresh new teaching credentials in hand. Renting a room from a gentle widow, she finds friendship and a feeling family she thought she'd lost. As a first-year science teacher, she gives much more to her students than an education--she gives them acceptance and respect. Even as her friendship with school psychologist Tom Phillips blossoms into love, a painful, long-suppressed secret from her past threatens to devastate her newfound joy. Will Annie confront and overcome the shadows that have followed her throughout her life?

The work begins in the present with a grandfather telling a story to his grandkids; it then shifts into the past to the story he is telling. A young boy enjoys watching as the housekeeper makes her famous "Jesus Cake" for her church's Easter celebration. The family encounters tragedy, and the boy is sent away to boarding school. Away from the Christian influence of home, he matures into a selfish and greedy man. Returning many years later, he finds the housekeeper's use of the cake at a Christmas Ball captures his attention and leads to his conversion. A holiday book, this short story presents a fictional account of how the Red Velvet Cake became a family tradition. In a similar way to the legend of the candy cane, this uses the ingredients of the Cake to illustrate the Gospel message. The recipe for the cake and frosting is included, along with relevant scripture references for each step. An evangelistic message directed to the reader concludes the manuscript.

Chloe Madison is a 19-year old rape victim who, because of this incident, has a child to take care of. She is angry at God for allowing this to happen to her and her family, but she does a good job of distracting herself from her emotions by busying herself with work and school. A stranger, Devin, comes into her life and makes her question the way she does things. She realizes that she is living a fake life to avoid pain. And when something as tragic as a car accident happens, she finds God is pulling her back to the place where she attributes the cause of this pain--Nigeria, the place of her childhood and the place of her rape, the place she fears the most.

Agent Michael Downing buried his faith the day his wife was murdered. Now, searching for her killer, he moves to the town of Seaborne. There he finds a town shrouded in mystery and the story of the ghost of the Lost Lady. When agents find evidence suggesting a woman is involved with the killer, Michael becomes suspicious. On one stormy night, he apprehends the Lost Lady, Elena Schilling and learns the tragic history of this helpless young girl. Abused and abandoned, she had disappeared 17 years earlier and raised herself alone in the treacherous wilds of Maine. In the end, Elena is kidnapped by the killer and Michael races against time to save her. In a violent showdown between good and evil, Elena, a lost young girl, finds the courage to stand for her faith against the killer and Michael is confronted with a life-changing lesson on the power of true faith in Christ.

The tiny town of Heppner, Oregon, is decimated in less than an hour when a flash flood hits the town in 1903, killing almost a fourth of the population. Even worse, four-year-old Lilyann Harmon and her younger brother are abducted in the confusion and darkness following the flood. The book shows God working to bring healing and growth in the wake of disaster. Lilyann and her brother suffer neglect in Portland for several years, then are abandoned at the home of a loving couple on a small farming island in the Columbia River. There they begin to blossom, only to be claimed again two years later by a man who calls himself their father. He takes them to The Dalles and uses them as a cover for his illegal activities. Only when he directs Lilyann, in his dying words, to return to Heppner does she find her true father.

The main character, verbally and physically abused, suffers scars affecting her character and personality. This has also determined how she views herself and her interactions with others. The writer has tried to portray how such abuse, invisible outwardly, can cause deep inner grief. But through the care and help of Christians truly living their faith, she finds out there is a God who loves her. With her new-found trust and peace in God, she begins to heal. And a young man, who takes the time to look below the surface, gives her love and hope for a future together.

Nathan Piece, ending a career as a South Pacific Bible translator, finds his plane must make an emergency landing on Tarawa atoll where he fought during WW II. Telling his story, the reader learns Nathan was raised in a strict Christian home in Tacoma, Washington. But Nathan, chafing under his father's directives, joins the Marines and ends up fighting the Japanese in brutal war-torn Saipan. Later he returns home disabled and discovers God's will for his life, a wife, and a calling to the mission field.

The biblical account of Israel's journey from the eastern plains of the Jordan to Gilgal, their first settlement in Canaan, is filled with more genocide, plague, sex, and war than today's front-page news. What spiritual benefit do these stories offer us today? The book attempts to bring this tale of mayhem and miracles to life, offering a fresh perspective on an ancient world and an intimate look at the challenges of coming of age in a time of violence and social upheaval. This researched and imaginative biblical novel is drawn from material in Numbers through Judges. It is the first of a trilogy on the settlement of Canaan as seen through the eyes of six minor characters from Judges who would have experienced these events in their youth.

In this humorous mystery, Tabitha Mackenzie, an unemployed hearing impaired cytologist, struggles with the sin of covetousness. Believing it will give her time to pursue a lawsuit against her husband's wishes, Tabitha and her hearing dog, an English Mastiff named Reese, fly to East Anglia, England, to work for a former employer and friend, Emily. Upon arriving, however, she discovers Emily's true reason for requesting her help--she believes she is the sole witness to a murder the police say never happened. Tabitha and Emily follow clues that not only lead them to the murderer, but also to the truth that greed kills and only God can satisfy one's needs.

This mystery/suspense novel presents a city under siege in the midst of spiritual warfare that believers face every day. The story looks at a young man with a dark past and an amazing gift, his girlfriend who finds answers in the past, a clever old counselor at the vanguard of the ensuing warfare, a troubled teen who threatens the core of a family, and a praying team under extraordinary attack. The themes include the hidden mechanics of fear and the still-developing science of memories.

Here is the story of a homeless boy living in the town of Bethlehem and his miraculous experiences at the birth of Jesus, then again many years later at the time of his crucifixion. The work is in the spirit of The Giving Tree or The Tale of the Three Trees. The writer reports that over four years the group reading of the book has captivated the young children and touched the listening parents and grandparents. The themes include the all encompassing love of Jesus for mankind embodied in his sacrifice for all.

Two years after inheriting her parents' successful imports business, Gina Messina cannot imagine herself helping a remote village in Uganda and considering a marriage proposal from a native Ugandan. But this is a dynamic story of belonging, faith, and God's grace.

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" becomes tragically real on the campus of Emerick College. The innocent acts of three people ignite the Pennington Place fire with its life-changing consequences for everyone involved. The situation is further complicated when a young Somali refugee, driven out of hiding by the flames, seeks sanctuary in the home of a professor ill-prepared for the results of providing hospitality. By offering pastoral care to victim and perpetrator alike, the campus minister is quickly drawn into the investigation. Far more difficult is discerning what to do with the frightened illegal alien whose presence 'above ground' puts his life in danger. The recently married duo, Ruthalice Michels and Clifford Mowry, campus minister and professor of biology, are caught between their longing to respond from the heart and the requirements of the INS.

In the classic battle of good and evil, the novel depicts the spiritual battle and influence of demons, angelic guardians and the dysfunctional family that is touched by the spiritual activity. The novel is woven around a single mother and her daughter, their struggles and triumphs in day to day life, and the impact of spiritual warfare has on their lives. The mother, Jessie struggles to vanquish her past and correct mistakes while the daughter, Nikki, deals with the overwhelming events. The work attempts to portray the insidious workings of evil and demon activity and not the Hollywood monster form.

The story opens in the midst of a blazing fire that is devouring an orphan's home near Chicago, IL. The young lady that serves as teacher and caregiver, Sara Anne Caldwell, is attempting to get her charges to safety. Her new husband is curiously absent. Details of her life and her present situation are purposely veiled so that the story can unfold on its own during the following chapters. Matthew Caldwell's background and upbringing begins in chapter two. During the 1930s, Matt and his brothers were taught the detailed methods of arson by their father, Charles, a Russian immigrant. The story progresses quickly with explanation and character detail until Matt is 21 years of age and he senses his past breathing down his neck. The Caldwell's connection to a wealthy investor, Mr. Randolph Lawton is demonstrated throughout the first five chapters which includes pictorial accounts of both families, their attitudes and habits, and how they are mysteriously tied to one another. I will continue to develop and intricately mesh their families in unexpected and surprising ways, writing past events interspersed with the story's current themes. The story will eventually progress in real time until I conclude the first book, holding the reader suspended in an unknown context that will draw him to the next installment of the series. Throughout the story I will include personal reflection and human failing that will ultimately lead certain characters to seek God more intimately, while others who are gripped in the stronghold of sin will feel powerless to embrace what they witness in those closes to them.

As a victim of date rape and a single mother, Kendra struggles with anger, distrust, and feelings of abandonment as each person in her life fails her. Her father has died at a young age, her mother remarries and moves away, and her romantic life also disappoints her. When she turns to God as her heavenly father, she begins to find hope and comfort. However, she is horrified when she meets the man who hurt her and learns that he is now a Christian and on good terms with her new circle of friends. When Steve learns that he has a daughter, he wants to be involved in the child's life. Kendra wrestles with issues of trust and forgiveness, and questions whether Steve would be a positive or harmful influence on her daughter. As she gradually takes small steps of forgiveness, they are both able to find healing in their relationship.

In the wake of the American Civil War, Becca Twain's secure world quickly unravels. First, she struggles to approve of her sister's marriage proposal, and second, Becca's dear friend burns bridge between them when she can't return his growing affections. Lastly she throws herself into a marriage with a man she hardly knows and is ultimately left widowed and "in the family way" after he is killed in a battle. With nothing else to cling to, Becca comes face to face with the only One who has known and loved her all along, and she must decide: will she stop relying on everything but Him? Matthew Moore thought he grew up with Becca for a reason, thought he was meant to love and protect her one day as her husband. How then can God allow her to refuse him? How can He let her marry someone else? As Matthew struggles with confusion and keeping the balance between affection and a proper distance, he becomes a shell of a man. Only then does he really see that he's been loving Becca in God's place. As the first installment of the "Heart's Desire Saga," this three-book series is devoted to teaching readers to recognize and fill the God-shaped hole in their hearts.

The Keepers is about courage, forgiveness, and hope. Carl and Ronsee, two young Keepers, discover a drowned stranger in a forest spring and begin a journey they never expected. On the quest that follows to rescue the Prince of the Silver Caves, who is a prisoner in the Depth Lands, Carl and Ronsee, together with a small band of Keepers and Ejin the prophet, encounter the real enemy who is plotting to control earth's waters. Betrayed and imprisoned, Carl learns that not all the Depth Dwellers are the enemy and he must choose if they will trust their lives to one of them. He must also choose how to deal justly with, even forgive the Keeper who betrayed them. The sacrifice of the Prince and Ejin to turn the tide of battle brings victory for the Keepers, courage to forgive a defeated enemy freed for the death of the Dark Stone Lord, and hope for the future. Most of the story takes place in the Silver Caves and below in the Depth Lands.

The writer states, "I'm a sixty-two year old reader who's discovered that there are very few books with older heroes and heroines. So I decided to begin my manuscript with a fifty-two year old woman named, Frances, who has built a wall between herself and the God she once loved." Using suspense and romance, this inspirational fiction develops as Patricia's friend, Ian, struggles to keep Patricia safe from a second murder attempt on her life. Finally a mystery turns up and once it is solved changes the lives of Frances' family forever.

Jane and her sister Kate are two girls growing up in the rural backwater that was the Isle of Wight during the 1970s. Lonely and confused amongst the eccentricities of their family and their parents uncomfortable relationship, they find themselves suddenly taken back to a time when these various people were young and living through events that had only ever been presented to them as gilt-edged legends. This glimpse of a magical, irretrievable world forces them to question who they are and most importantly who they are before God. They must develop a sense of compassion and learn how to forgive.

In the jungles of Papua New Guinea live the Hewa tribal people. The life of the Hewa includes murders and payback killings, violent raids, fearful superstitions, and despair. Faced with a stronger tribe and helpless to defend themselves, they have hope that the pale face foreigners they have heard about can rescue them by telling the story of how to keep from dying, and so go on living forever. The village sends a man to request that one of these foreigners come to live with them. Though the names of the tribal people and the order of events have been altered to create a more readable novel, the book is based on true stories that have been told the writer by tribal friends. It will be natural to write a follow-up sequel or two to this book. The second book could detail the entrance of the missionary team and the presentation of the gospel, while the third would depict the gospel's effect on the lives of the Hewa tribal people. The work shatters the myth that isolated people groups are happy the way they are,

Annie is a non-believer, living in a near-future world decimated by evil forces. Christians have become endangered species. This story follows Annie's spiritual awakening with the help of a band of resilient Christians, fighting daily for their survival. Malevolent abominations of nature roam the streets, harassing those who try to eke out an existence in a world without compassion or care. Against this dismal backdrop, Annie finds friendship, the love of a Christian man, and, most of importantly, a connection to the God that protects them all. The story is fast-paced and full of supernatural adventures. But at its core, it illuminates the "less than perfect" nature of humans and their choices. It also reminds the reader of the inner strength and joy that comes from a relationship with God.

Does innocence outweigh guilt when one violates the law, if doing so benefits the greater moral good? After finding smuggled diamonds in his luggage after departing the diamond country of Sierra Leone, the protagonist chooses to break the law by keeping the contraband for a greater cause: returning their value back to the country in the form of a hospital. In doing so, he violates English law in London and faces terrorist smugglers in their attempts to find him and the diamonds. Two beautiful women in London become part of his life: one, a flirtatious prodigal, who markets the diamonds; the other, a Sierra Leonean barrister saint whose late mother is English. The unreachable saintly barrister is the challenge for the protagonist, both emotionally and professionally. All three have idiosyncratic shortcomings. Of the two women, one makes him millions for the hospital project in Africa, the other leads him back to the faith he rejected as a youth.

This is the story of Srenna James who is tragically left an orphan in pre-World War II Australia and finds God's unfailing guidance as he prepares her for a young family in the beautiful sheep country of New Zealand that truly needs her tenacious spirit and compassionate heart. Along the way she learns that in order to encourage forgiveness and healing she must also receive forgiveness and healing for her past. Though her initial meeting with their brother is rocky Srenna finds a common ground with Matthew Patton to keep his orphaned siblings together and at the end of the challenge they both learn an unforgettable lesson about God's love and faithfulness. They have always been held by him, always been forgiven by him, and always been in his "gaze."

King of Harkan is a completed 108,000 word Christian fantasy that is set in the fictional lands of Seerling and Harkan. This story is targeted for adult and teen readers and is similar in nature to Karen Hancock's series Legends of the Guardian-King. This novel revolves strongly around the themes of forgiveness and deliverance while focusing on the lives of young married couple, Toren and Astril. Toren is the grandson of a disturbed King from the land of Harkan, and his new wife is the leader of Seerling. Their two lands have been embattled with one another for ages, making their love that much harder to preserve. In the shadow of a looming war with Harkan, Astril finds herself confronted by a generational evil that threatens to turn her from the One True God. Toren anguishes over his wife's painful struggle while searching to find his place in the strange land of Seerling. Meanwhile, a threat more dangerous than either of them can imagine waits patiently to strike.

In this age of global trade and international travel and education, the possibility of Christian evangelism has been greatly expanded. It is unnecessary to travel to the ends of the earth - the ends of the earth have come to us. International students are on every college campus, and many of them have never hears a clear presentation of Christianity. Million Mile Journey is a novel with apologetics. Each of its twenty chapters touches on a particular point of Christian doctrine, but it is woven into the body of the narrative. The purpose is to present an accurate and unintimidating picture of our faith through the experiences of a foreign visitor. Arguments are presented in a realistic way to a protagonist who is skeptical, yet very likable. The intention is that skeptical readers will identify with the protagonist and with his spiritual journey, allowing him to ask the same questions and wrestle with the same issues that they have. For Christian readers, the story will be an encouragement, and a poignant reminder of their own journeys.

This novel was written to reveal a new perspective on spiritual warfare. Based on a number of true stories, the novel addresses the spiritual vulnerability of today's youth, the importance of knowing scripture, and how to have the courage to take a stand, even in the "un-winnable" situations. The characters in the novel struggle with the death of a friend, intra-family betrayal, and direct confrontations with the demonic. The novel describes how Satan forces youth into the spiritual battle, and how God can use them for his glory. This novel's purpose is to open the eyes of readers to the spiritual realm and reveal that there is much more to Christianity than what meets the eye. This is the first book of a series.

As World War II nears its end, twelve-year-old Luke "Skeets" McLendon and his best friend Will Davis fall for Lydia Powell, a beautiful, recently orphaned girl their age whose custody Skeets' aunt had temporarily assumed. When an attempt by Skeets and Will to protect Lydia from a violent uncle brings about tragic consequences, Skeets learns a painful lesson about love and loss.

This character-driven novel revolves around the idea of acceptance. The storyline features Olivia Caldwell and Marion Stiles, best friends in high school who lose touch during college and become reunited thirty years later. The story follows Olivia, a forty-eight year old divorced mother, as she rebuilds her life with Jack Waldron,a New England farmer whose fine character exemplifies that of Olivia's father, with memories of Marion becoming more commonplace. When it appears Olivia has finally found happiness she suffers a tragic event and becomes plagues by a sense of regret. As the story progresses a critical component of the storyline, purposely hidden from the reader, is revealed- the discovery of Olivia's father just eight years earlier. The crisis of the story is resolved when through a brief and unusual reunion with Marion, Olivia is able to accept the circumstances of the past as well as her own self. The book sends a message of hope and inspiration and stands to prove the difference acceptance and faith can make in one's life.

Inside a secret hiding place in the attic of the old Chamberlain house in Petersburg, VA lives a diary that has not been touched in over a hundred years. Moving a table, fifteen-year-old Em steps on a button releasing the latch. Hiding the diary in her pocket, Em takes it home to delve into its secrets, which to her shock include the mysterious murder of Robert Chamberlain and the lost Confederate gold. Before Em can return the diary to the attic, God answers her desperate plea to change history and sends her on a mission back in time five days before the murder. Before she can convince herself that she has really time traveled she trips and is knocked unconscious. When she regains consciousness, Em is dismayed to discover she has no memory and doesn't recognize the strangers around her. As she recuperates with the Chamberlain family, a feeling of dread plagues Em. There is something she needs to remember and time is running out . . .

This Christian romance (historical fiction) develops the life of the writer's grandmother, Ivey Ellen Berry and her sister Rachel.

The characters depicted here are "nice" people--helpful, concerned individuals who care deeply for one another. And while events have made each of them look to God for help, knowledge, position, fame and riches make it difficult for them to see the need of reliance on anyone or anything. A hospital chaplain is a key figure in introducing these families to the Word of God. The marriage of Judith and Jonathan, and later, the marriage of Martha and Chaplain Garrett are the key players in the story , along with the sudden and untimely death of Judith and her unborn baby. How crisis and tragedy are handled is a lesson in the school of Christian living.

In what might be called an apologetics novel, Beswick extracts the young Brahmin seeking enlightenment from Herman Hesse's short novel Siddhartha and propels the character through actual history. Siddhartha encounters Thoreau and Emerson, Jewish scholars in Dachau, the intellectual element of the 60s counter-culture, the budding Jesus movement of the late 60s, postmodern relativists, Islamic scholars, and Christ himself. Along the way Siddhartha loses what Hesse gave him (the illusion of peaceful integration into the unity of all things) in favor of an understanding of the voice behind the world, the Creator.

This is a contemporary romance, the first of a series which is set primarily in Hawaii and centered on a large, boisterous Christian family. It includes a glimpse of what life in Hawaii is really like, including a touch of Hawaiian pidgin. Steve Jeremiah is a professional football player who spends his offseason in Hawaii. When his car breaks down he meets auto mechanic and war veteran Heather Shepherd and her family. They face issues that include their pasts, their vastly different lives, and remaining true to God's will, including sexual purity. Even as they reach the point of commitment, Heather faces down a gunman at her brother's school. While she averts tragedy, she herself is wounded. The stress brings out character issues in both of them that neither had wanted to look at. Their relationship seems to be at an end, but both of them are confronted by family members who make them rethink things they had believed about life.

In 1970 "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll" ruled supreme in Point Collina, an upscale beachside resort. Nowhere was that more true than at the local high school, and that scene was ruled by Denise Kendall, tennis captain and daughter of the most prominent man around. But this happy life of "peace and love" was rudely interrupted when Madeleine des Cieux, a foreign student, started to perform miracles, including healings and throwing tennis matches. Now the school, the government and Denise herself are forced to scramble for damage control, not only with Madeleine but with her ex-boyfriend, Jack Arnold, itching for revenge, and her perennial enemy, the development heiress Terry Marlowe. Both disaster and triumph end up on everyone's plate in a world which is being rapidly reshaped both by and for the participants.

Growing up inside the walls of a 21st century kingdom, Princess Elizabeth Afton's life was proclaimed by the media to be every girls' dream fairy tale. But when breaking news of her father's cancer forces the King to resign, the 17-year-old princess is torn away from the only life she's ever known. As the media haunts her with rumors of war, Liz whispers a prayer which brings her face to face with the One she has ignored for so long. Will she reach out and accept the faith of her family and friends? And when faced with the decision, will she choose to walk away, or risk the secret of the key to save the kingdom she loves? In this contemporary story of fame and faith, young adult readers will journey alongside Liz as she discovers the true King in her life and the royal role she was destined to play.

The story takes place in 1790s northern Britain. The hero is a Scot named Gerry MacGregor. As the book opens he is 24 years old and living in Yorkshire as a lowly worker in his uncle's stables. Though Gerry's life has been filled with loss and sorrow, he is a dedicated Christ-follower. The other main character is 19-year-old Christine Boutiller, an orphan from America who has traveled to England to find her late mother's family. Unable to locate them immediately, she ends up staying at Heathercrest House (the name of Gerry's uncle's estate) and working as a servant to pay for food and lodging while she waits for news of her family. Gerry's uncle, Jacob Yardley, is a bitter man with a deep grudge against his nephew. Christine finds herself in the middle of one of Yardley's plots against Gerry and acts so rashly that it merits a death-sentence. Gerry offers his life for hers, and after he is nearly killed in the process, the couple find themselves in a whirlwind of adventure: marriage, a journey north into Scotland, and being relentlessly pursued by Gerry's uncle. For Christine, the whole thing becomes a journey from unbelief to faith in the one that the Gaelic-speaking Gerry calls Iosa Criost, Jesus Christ.

Lilyan Cameron joins the Patriots to save her brother, Andrew, from a British prison ship in Charles Town Harbor. The sheltered portrait artist is swept into a world of clandestine meetings and secret passwords, and into the arms of Nicholas Xanthakos, a captain in the colonial militia. Lilyan, more accustomed to bringing life to a canvas, is forced to use her skillful hands for a deadly purpose, killing a British officer to prevent him from raping her best friend, Nicholas helps Lilyan escape to safety among camp followers attached to Francis Marion's partisans, where they marry. Nicholas sends her away to a Cherokee village in NC. On her turbulent journey, Lilyan draws upon her faith to survive an attack by bounty hunters, to nurse Andrew back to health, and take part in a scheme to fake her death as a ploy to stop her relentless pursuers. Nicholas learns of Lilyan's death and vows to avenge her murder. His search leads him to the village and into his wife's joyful embrace.

Jesus at Twelve is a factual novel covering the time of Passover when he was 12 years old. Details of life as Jesus knew it is shown from historical sources to give Christians a better understanding of his time on earth. The idea is to experience things as he did by the walk to Jerusalem, the celebration of Passover, the opportunity with the Sanhedrin, his home life, the work of a carpenter at Nazareth, teachings from prominent rabbis of the time, and many other details. These are things that Christians need to know of our Savior and few people are aware of this information. The reader will get a revelation of the life of Jesus in accessible material.

Miriam Cahill is a young woman growing up in the 1950's Texas, the eldest of four and primary target for an abusive father. The most important relationship in her life is that of her mother, but Christine Cahill's death changes Miriam's world forever. With her family's support, she finds the courage to seek her own way in the world, but her independence, unfortunately, comes at a great cost. When brutally raped on a blind date, Miriam again finds herself confronted by childhood doubts and fears. Ignoring the attack proves no solution, however, and finally she admits the rape to her family. To complicate matters, Miriam recognizes her growing feelings for Sonny Williamson, the seminary student who ultimately helps her to face not only the toll of being raped, but her father's emotional abandonment. Losing Mama tells the story of a young woman caught in an emotional hurricane, lost in a storm of self-doubt fed by a lifetime of brutal rejection. Her story is told through flashbacks as well as the weaving of her journey through the events that compromise one pivotal, challenging year.

Shadows is a supernatural thriller, targeted at children 12 years and old, as well as women, in which the relationships are as important as the supernatural element. It features angels and demons to show how the spiritual realm influences people's thoughts without their realizing it. The main plot involves the spiritual battle over 12-year-old Katie, in whose brain God has deposited a scientific gift that could greatly alleviate human suffering. Satan hopes to corrupt the girl so that she cannot use her gift, but if that doesn't work, the demons plan to use a sociopath to kill her--the villain will not succeed, and it is made clear at the beginning that he is asexual, no sexual desires at all. The main relationship stories involve the attempt by the girl's father to win her love, two romances, the often humorous problems of the girl's grandparents' marriage, and the involvement of the girl's best friend's mother in Wicca as she attempts to improve her life. A dog is a major player in the story, used by God to soften Katie's heart and, ultimately, to help rescue her from the villain. The subplots make this story long--too long for most traditional publishers to take a chance on, so I self-published it as an e-book for Amazon's Kindle.

Heart in the Desert, Hand on the Mesa is a historical romance outlining the story of Robert Carlisle, a lonely missionary living under primitive conditions in the Laguna Indian village in New Mexico during the last months of WW II. Robert is afraid even to hope that someone would be willing to share such a life. His prayers seem to have been answered on the arrival of Minerva Cagle (Minna), a reluctant teacher who believes she is only there for the summer in order to pay off her school loan. Minna is distracted by the fact her brother and his best friend, (her sweetheart she hopes to marry at war's end) are in the thick of battle in the Pacific. Will Mrs. Salita, the landlady, be successful in getting Robert and Minerva together? Will Minna's brother and his best friend survive the war? Will Minna ultimately find her heart in the desert, and what is the significance of the hand print on the mesa? The work will appeal to readers seeking the sweet love story with an exotic setting and a glimpse into another culture and language.

At the core, this is the basic struggle of good versus evil surrounding the protagonist: Eric. The story is set in the future where the powers of God have become more commonplace. Man's science calls these powers Psionics, abilities of the mind. Eric and his fiancée, Michelle, know better. Even with that knowledge, Eric has not committed his soul to God. The Devil and his minions want to keep it that way. Through their manipulation, Eric is beset on three sides to keep him from converting. Michelle, armed with a vision of the future, is determined to change the outcome where Eric turns irrevocably to evil.

Focused is a poignant and witty insight into the heart of a middle-aged woman who faces mood swings, empty-nest syndrome, the death of her parents and the possible dulling of her marriage, all the while questioning how it affects her walk with God. This fiction speaks to the average adult woman about all aspects of her life; whether her decisions have been worthwhile and if she has pleased God or just disappointed Him and everyone else along the way. But more than that, it reveals God's grace and how He can use each of us even in our weaknesses.

This novel for children, ages 10-15, combines humor with a resounding message of divine grace. Even Angels Cry follows the growing relationship between a boy and his guardian angel, and offers humorous glimpses into the daily life of one of heaven's most reputable, and pompous, guardians. A veteran of the Demon Wars, a master of the flaming sword, a professor at the University of Heaven at Paradise, and an author of numerous books on the subject of humanity, Gideon learns compassion and humility through his relationships with his appointed charge. Corey Scott, through the influence of his guardian, becomes a Christian of strong conviction that sustains his spirit through the trials of adolescent life. The two become close friends, and Gideon forgets about the rules, the system, and the technicalities of being a guardian angel that he has developed over centuries of guardian experience. Gideon, although powerful, cannot prevent the occurrence of Corey's terminal illness. In his despair, Corey forgets his childhood love of God and is a willing participant in a cult ritual. Despite Corey's perceived fall from grace, which becomes an almost insurmountable spiritual barrier, his lesson at the throne of God is a lesson for all humanity. Divine grace forgives all human failings and is extravagant beyond imagination.

Life in the early 19th century community of Port Dalhousie is mundane for everyone except Deborah Fox. At just 18, she has already lost her mother, her sister, and three of her brothers, and her father is incapacitated by illness. As anger seeps in she turns her back on God, blaming him for the misfortunes. Jake, a handsome, young lake captain, befriends her. He promises to discover who burned down her home, but his task becomes much more complex when he falls in love with Deborah. What can he do when he discovers that she has become entangled in an evil conspiracy that now endangers her very life.

Abby Stevens had always dreamed of becoming a chef so she decided to travel to Tuscany, Italy to do just that. Once she arrives and begins her classes, she finds that she not only improves her culinary skills, but also finds the key to her heart when she meets the dashing and debonair Antonio Pasquini, who just happens to be teaching the classes. Antonio sets to the task of teaching her the meaning of love as well as how to create enticing culinary delights. Over time, she not only falls deeply in love with Antonio, but also finds a place in the family that she had longed for. This is a heart-warming story about good food and romance that is found in the enchanting surroundings of Tuscany.

Three years ago, Joan Bancroft lost her husband in Iraq and is now living a low-key, lonely existence with her eight year-old son Tod. Enter Hank Barnes, an obnoxious meter reader who, within minutes of walking into her back yard flips her life’s switch from low to high key. Hank promptly moves into the house next door to Joan's in order, unknown to Joan, to keep track of suspected counterfeiters in the house next to his, two doors down from Joan's. Hank Barnes is, in fact, an agent for the US Secret Service. Joan, a committed Christian, finds herself strongly attracted to Hank, who promptly makes himself rather irritatingly indispensable around her household. Joan knows that as a believer she has to watch her heart with non-believing Hank. Then Joan discovers Hank's true occupation, and slams shut the door of her heart. How Hank opens that door, how he opens his own to the Lord, how the counterfeiters are caught, and how a dad for Joan's son Tod is provided by the one who gives abundantly of himself to all who trust him, forms the rest of the story.

Set on a Christian college campus in Nebraska, the story illustrates how God uses tragedy and upheaval to reach people for his purposes and glory. Drew, the Dean of Students, lost his wife and unborn child in a car accident. Allison's father died of a heart attack and she has struggled academically and financially ever since. Chris, the student senate vice president, suffers the devastating effects of his dysfunctional family. As they strive to rebuild their lives, the chaos of suicide, abortion, addiction, abuse and crime engulfs them. They fight to maintain control, yet are beaten down by questions that have no answers and Satan's deceptions. When they reach the brink of hopelessness, God pulls them back from Satan's grip. Their eyes are finally opened to God's will and they experience redemption and renewal. Miracles unfold, both earthly and eternal, as they yield to his plans. The message of salvation is clearly presented.

In Dreams of Ivory, the fictional life of an orphan slave girl in the Middle Ages embodies God's redemption, forgiveness, and unfailing love toward each of us. The protagonist becomes Princess Ivory, who deals with such widespread issues as overcoming low self-esteem, facing a dark past, waiting on God's timing, and having compassion for others. Readers get a fresh understanding of our adoption as children of God as well as the close relationship we can have with God the Father (King Abba), Son (Prince Emmanuel), and Holy Spirit (Queen Opal). Non-believers will have a chance to see the entire plan of salvation in allegorical form before realizing that they are the main character and have the opportunity to find freedom through Jesus' sacrifice. The novel could be coupled with a study guide entitled Ivory's Insights that would help readers apply the diverse lessons to their lives.

This is a story of men who, to their dismay, are chosen by God to thwart Satan in his timing, forcing his hand prematurely in his bid to claim the world as his own. They first cried, "Not me Lord, find another" and then fell to their knees and cried out, "Send me, Lord. I will go." It is the search for a man named Michael, whose parents were last seen in a small town in Arkansas several months before his birth. He was an instrument of God from the beginning, chosen by God long before he was formed in his mother's womb. An evil man searches also, seeking to destroy, as he sought to destroy in ancient days. Christ comes for his church like a thief in the night, just as he said he would . . . leaving one man and one woman to tell the rest of the story of salvation.

In the midst of her normal college life, Kate Arnold is visited by a being, who reveals that her brother, Jonathan, has been keeping a secret. When pressed for answers, Jonathan explains that Kate has a destiny to fulfill – in another world. After much soul searching, Kate returns to her homeworld with two warriors, Ruark and Wilyam. They are met by Sabriel the ancient, and learn that the evil Lorcan plans to dominate Sunlee. Sabriel sends them on a mission to a faraway region. On the journey, they are pursued by a demon (Seanan), who replicates Ruark's body and takes his place. When they finally reach their destination, Wilyam is forced to fight Ruark to the death. Now, Wilyam and Kate must discover Seanan's betrayal, find a way to rescue Ruark, and face the looming battle with Lorcan. As the story closes, Kate learns the real reason for her journey. Filled with spiritual themes and symbolism, the story presents the gospel in an allegorical way.

This is a murder mystery, written with literary standards. In Laurelville, Ohio, a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians, nobody knows why Hannah Marshal drowned in Laurel Creek in 1937, but twenty years later, her niece, Ruth Sherman, takes it upon herself to find out. With only a few rumors, old newspaper clippings and the guidance of a retired sheriff, Ruth begins to uncover the events surrounding Hannah's death. She finds herself on a journey into the past, the traditions of a southern Ohio Pentecostal church, and the shadow side of the Holy Spirit among serpent handlers. Along the way, Ruth discovers her own spiritual gifts and uncovers the unspoken shame in her family.

Self-absorption has always been the name of the game for Maria, in an effort to serve who she believes is number one: namely, herself. But in an uncontrollable turn of events, her disconsolate step-sister will be moving in with her after a nearly-fatal attempt to take her own life. Now there is a number two in the picture and she's bringing with her the same nagging questions Maria has been all too happy repressing. In searching for some invisible strength great enough to carry them both, Maria only manages to perceive her own weakness. Thank goodness her handsome co-worker Nate seems to know who the true number one is. He might be the only one she'll listen to, and only then because she has secretly grown to love him by his own unfailing example. Nate shows the two sisters that only by accepting the hand of God on their lives will be able to forge a future of purpose-together.

The Cloak and the Parchments is historically plausible fiction, but also a theological study. Set in 64 AD against the backdrop of the Great Fire in Rome and told in the first person by the author of the Gospel of Mark, it relates his journey from Ephesus to Rome, his crisis of faith, and how he comes to write his gospel - the first to be written - under the competing influences of both Peter (who views Christ through the prism of Jewish Messianic tradition) and Paul (who views Christ as God incarnate come to save all mankind from the consequences of its sin). It touches on a number of issues ranging from the meaning of salvation to the nature of the Eucharist to the problem of evil to the relationship between Christianity and Judaism and, most crucially, to the implications of the divinity of Christ.

Two girls, struggling with their beliefs finds themselves on an adventure to find Heaven's Seven Seals. They have help from the Archangel Michael and David the Shepherd Boy. They try to stay steps ahead of The Shadow of Evil who wants the Seals and will do anything to get them. Along the way both girls learn valuable lessons and the truth about what they believe. This is the first book of seven. Each book deals with a Seal and a different biblical character. The Silver Locket is a hidden treasure. The seals have their own surprises.

The manuscript, written from a Christian perspective, is a love story of admirable characters struggling with adversity. It stands apart from most novels in addressing the plight of the handicapped and those who love them. It is in the vein of the stories of Nicholas Sparks and the older Love Story of Erich Segal with tragedy and separation and undying love making for seemingly impossible dreams. The heroine, a young professor, confronts her muscular dystrophy (MD) and its progressive and genetic implications, while at the same time falling in love with a man who truly loves her. Dare they? What challenges will they face? Then the worst scenario happens and she is incapacitated and they are separated. Years later he tries to find her against impossible odds.

Mireille Lapides, daughter of French Holocaust survivors, flies in 1965 to Israel to serve for six months as a volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces. Here she experiences a stillborn romance with native Israeli Yoram Ben-Levi, and through Yoram's family Jewish spirituality lived out through faith in Messiah. Her struggle with her Jewish identity, however, and the confrontation with her God and his Messiah do not reach crisis point until she returns to Israel 22 years later. Mireille is forced to re-evaluate her atheism and 2,000 years of Judeo-Christian history.

In a secret dwelling deep inside an Arizona mountain, a famous Christian scientist and many other refugees hide from world powers that hate Christians and Jews and seek to use Dr. Elias Silverstein's inventions to rule the earth by force. Agnostic Jake Trent flees from the same evil people after he is falsely accused of treason. He stumbles into the amazing cave where he is surrounded by believers. While the outside world is in chaos, the residents of the hideout experience supernatural protection. However, one day the enemy pinpoints their location, causing upheaval and change.

This Christian allegory seeks to help readers identify their soul hunger for the living Christ. Its theme is the need for, the provision for, and the great cost of redemption. It begins with the fall of Satan from heaven and continues to the glorious conclusion, the fulfillment of God's plan to bring his children back to himself. Twelve-year-old Chris Kellerman, a resident of Caravel, an Eden-like community just outside the Celestial City, decides on the spur of the moment to disobey the cardinal rule never to venture outside the Great Wall. This misjudgment lands him in the domain of Satan, or Apollyon, the Dragon, who is consumed by his desire to avenge himself on the King for his expulsion from heaven.While the story deals primarily with the king's provision of a savior, the struggle that Chris's family and friends go through, and the strengthening of their faith in the process, are also major themes in the story.

This 85,000 word novel set in the American South and in China deals with a lawyer who must re-learn the values of mercy and forgiveness, two words not readily found in a legal dictionary. The protagonist is Hunter Morgan, an attorney who has never known a losing streak. Hunt's wife cajoles him into the international adoption process. While grudgingly awaiting the child's referral, Hunt unwittingly becomes a rogue prosecutor in a notorious murder case, joining the community in a rush to judgment. But Hunt is blindsided as he travels to China, discovering a simpler and less pretentious life. His heart is captivated by the orphaned child and Hunt becomes convicted of his need to be adopted into God's family. After Hunt returns home, he discovers that he has convicted the wrong person. Then the real murderer tries to kill Hunt.

An 8 year old Jewish boy, Jacob is kidnapped in Amsterdam in 1763, brought to America, and sold into indentured servitude to a brutal master. After five years, he escapes and makes a life for himself and his adopted brother on the colonial frontier. Captured by Iroquois Indians and adopted into their tribe, he misses his brother and his betrothed yet learns to love his new family. Eventually he returns to his beloved, but becomes embroiled in the War for Independence. Throughout his ordeals he struggles to retain his identity as a Jew while integrating the Christian beliefs of his friends and the noble aspects of the Iroquois. The story could be published as one book of 120K words, or broken quite easily into four books of 30K words: Jacob's Bondage, Jacob's Youth, Jacob's Exile, and Jacob's War.

Big Houses, Small Houses is a 45,000-word Christian, suspense, romance novel. Julie Anderson, a successful greeting card writer, desires more success to build security for herself and her son. A murder, her wayward son, and an aunt who leaves a mystery concerning a missing miniature painting, all conspire, along with a handsome neighbor, to take Julie on a path away from her road of independence and back to Christ.

Death of the Jaguar II focuses on the environmental disaster that follows the cutting of the Brazilian rain forest, the destruction caused by agri-business farming, and the exploitation by gold and diamond miners. The setting is at the edge of the jungle. What can one young Brazilian woman do to stop the wanton destruction of the land? Can she battle to stop the annihilation of Indian villages and whole species of animals? The heroine, Neide finds those who will work with her to confront national agencies and police; those that should be advocates for indigenous peoples and the environment. Surrounded by corrupt leadership seemingly her every move is thwarted, so much so she appears to be digging her own grave. What are the experiences that encourage Neide and how do her struggles change her approach to spirituality and romance?

Jessica Solomon is a college sophomore who has forsaken the faith of her parents in order to live a life of moral licentiousness and academic elitism. After her one-night stand with Jake at a frat party, Jessica doesn't think about him twice until she discovers she is pregnant with his child. When baby Natalie is born, Jessica and Jake find themselves cast into a world of chaos and uncertainty, as their daughter is transported to Anchorage and declared significantly brain-damaged. Jake promises God to straighten up his life if God heals his daughter, but soon realizes there's more to salvation than just doing good deeds. Jessica finds herself drawn back to the Lord during her time of sorrow, and wonders if Jake is part of God's plan for her own future. Mark and Rhonda Solomon watch as their daughter must decide whether to remove baby Natalie from life support or transport her to Seattle for invasive brain surgery, and wonder if their own marriage will survive this family crisis.

Jessica Solomon is a college sophomore who has forsaken the faith of her parents in order to live a life of moral licentiousness and academic elitism. After her one-night stand with Jake at a frat party, Jessica doesn't think about him twice until she discovers she is pregnant with his child. When baby Natalie is born, Jessica and Jake find themselves cast into a world of chaos and uncertainty, as their daughter is transported to Anchorage and declared significantly brain-damaged. Jake promises God to straighten up his life if God heals his daughter, but soon realizes there's more to salvation than just doing good deeds. Jessica finds herself drawn back to the Lord during her time of sorrow, and wonders if Jake is part of God's plan for her own future. Mark and Rhonda Solomon watch as their daughter must decide whether to remove baby Natalie from life support or transport her to Seattle for invasive brain surgery, and wonder if their own marriage will survive this family crisis.

The work introduces readers to some truly great winners in the game of life who demonstrate the victory of the human spirit when touched by the power of the Spirit of God. These short stories tell of individuals and families who face times of decision that call for the best of spiritual reserves, such as: job loss, cancer diagnosis, death of a child, loss of faith in a leader, an abusive marriage, the nursing home decision, a terrorist threat, personal humiliation, war injuries and spiritual poverty. While the author is committed to Christian theological and counseling principles, the stories are written to speak to the heart for lay readers who seek a word of Christian hope when life seems to tumble in on us.

Alex had what most people only dream of having. A dream house that he built for himself, a thriving construction company that he ran with his brother, a close relationship with his mother, brother and sister, a warm caring church that he attended weekly…. So his family didn't understand when he decided to spend the summer in Chicago. Contacts from the Spanish speaking Pastor he was visiting led him to offer his construction know how in exchange for a place to stay at Widow Sanchez's house. Little did he suspect that widow Sanchez was a redheaded spitfire who had five adorable children, a live-in mother-in-law from Peru, and a very busy life. As the summer rushes past, Alex questions if God's purpose for him here is a visit or to find a new home and maybe even a family to belong to out in the cold Midwest?

When an informant delivers an ominous letter to FBI Agent David Browne, he comes face to face with an international fugitive and assassin who may be planning a devastating attack on America. While the FBI launches a nationwide manhunt, David searches for his mysterious informant convinced she knows more than she has shared. Jane Alexander's past is filled with pain and guilt - making it hard for her to trust anyone, especially an earnest FBI agent. In a race against time with thousands of lives in the balance, David and Jane must each search for answers to the questions that could change their lives forever. Could the secrets from Jane's past be the key to stopping the terrorists? Or will her secrets destroy them both?

Struggling to find the meaning behind her father's betrayal, Jet needs time to sort out the pieces of her life. Undaunted by the challenges of managing corporate affairs, fearless in her dealings on Wall Street, she has been accustomed to success, but as the new owner of Twin Brooks Farm she encounters nothing but failure. When the farm truck is forced off the road and into the creek, Jet realizes the problems on Twin Brooks Farm are more than just a run of bad luck. Wall Street hadn't prepared her for dying livestock, delinquent renters, or the deaf mute who is determined to make Twin Brooks Farm a success and to keep her from escaping back into her old lifestyle.

The Prince of Merica is fiction written for youths (age 10-14). A young prince (Garin) is tired of his lonely existence at his parent's modern castle and decides to run away in order to make his own way in the world. A chance meeting with one of the poorest farmers in his father's country leads to a close friendship and a clearer perspective for Garin on the world's troubles. Following a life-changing adventure with this farmer and his family, Garin returns home motivated to live out his new, less self-focused philosophy.

American Christians believe we have the first amendment right to worship unmolested by the state, the second amendment right to defend our homes via private gun ownership, the fourth amendment right to private phone and internet conversations, and the ninth and tenth amendment right to all the other rights not specifically afforded to the federal government by the Constitution, rights that belong to the people or our sovereign states. The writer believes recent legislation and executive orders have suspended those rights. In fact, those Americans who still believe the Bible and support the Constitution are The Last Americans.

This first in a series of Angel Hunter books, weaves several characters from varying backgrounds for an adventurous journey into the hidden realm of the spirit world. Staying true to biblical principles, the book brings to life a roller coaster ride between heaven and hell. The silver cylinder, which was sent to earth the same long-ago day a third of the angels were expelled from heaven, is the focal point of the plot. Archeologist Professor Jacob Kendall, his daughter Sara, and a group of college students find the cylinder on an archeological dig in northern California. Dante, a fallen angel, has waited centuries for the cylinder to be unearthed. These characters, along with two angels of light sent to protect the cylinder, battle each other and with their own emotions as the mysteries of the cylinder unfold. Angel Hunters are what their name suggests: a group of ex-military now turned mercenary, with extensive financial backing and a secret member that allows them to track down and capture angels. The Angel Hunters also want the cylinder. The contents of the cylinder, why each group is intent on possession, plus how these beings from different backgrounds and realms interact, will keep the reader entertained and wanting more.

My work describes Martin Weidmann's life in Germany before, during and after the third Reich, and how the rise of a totalitarian government insidiously affected the lives of ordinary, working, non-political people. Schooling, friendships, church and religious organizations impinged. Faith in God was discouraged. Labor camp and the military cruelly tried to stamp out any individuality. Poorly equipped soldiers, appalling conditions and losses led to bitter and faith-less soldiers. While POW of Americans, his faith in God returns. Return to a defeated and devastated Germany brings more loss, but the future holds promise.

The cutting of the jungle in the Amazon Basin in Brazil during the mid 1980s is the setting for Neide, a young woman pilot, to take action against government corruption in an effort to save the Indians and animals that are threatened. The heroine's air taxi service gives her a base to work against agri-business farming, the exploitation by gold and diamond miners, and the illegal cutting of valuable timber for export. The heroine grew up in extreme poverty and is deeply moved by touching the beautiful hide of a jaguar, so that later in life she begins a crusade against powerful government forces. Over the years she makes a significant difference. The heroine's struggles impinge on her own personal life so that she looks at Christian spirituality and romance in a new way.

Human knowledge is limited, not in the sense that there are endless things we could know but don't--the current surface temperature on the far side of Mars, for instance--but that there are things we could never know. To this, most would agree. However, when asked to work out the implications of this, that agreement would evaporate. The modern secular view would essentially declare such superhuman knowledge insignificant. A Significant Gap is the story of a scientist (Michael Howard) returning to his Midwestern hometown who discovers just the opposite, quite to his surprise. Knowledge is bounded in a way that reality is not; the gap between what can be known and what exists cannot be closed. Nevertheless we can see beyond this gap, even if only through a glass darkly. What we see there, we can know. But to the usual troika of necessary conditions for knowledge--justification, truth, and belief--we must add choice.

The work was originally published in German in Switzerland in 1982. The book is the story of a woman wrongfully accused of and killed for witchcraft. The English rights are available, and the author is interested in an English translation. The last witchcraft trial in Europa was held in 1782 in Eveline Hasler's home canton of Glarus. A servant woman, Anna Goeldi, was accused of having bewitched a child of the physician household in which she worked, making it crippled. The accused confessed under torture, was sentenced by the city council and executed. Sources show that the trial provoked great controversy in Europe even at the time. The courts in Glarus were ridiculed and criticized by more enlightened cities in Switzerland and Germany. In her novel with its beautiful simple language, Hasler attempts to explain how a witchcraft trial could come to take place in the heart of Europe during the heyday of the Enlightenment. She also draws parallels to women's fight for equal rights two hundred years later.

Everyone is familiar with the oft-told tale of how Noah in his wisdom saved the future of the human race an all animal species through his obedience to what he believed God was instructing him to do. But few have hard the additional story of the bow that coincidentally wound-up on the ark and how it was used to save the women from a leviathan attack, thereby ensuring the continuation of humanity. And, how exactly did God talk to Noah? Can we truly relate to his story? Is the ark believable? Could it happen today? In the style of Edward Rutherford's historical fiction, the work begins with the funeral of Adam, and from there unfolds the centuries and circumstances that preceded the flood with realistic characters and plausible answers, putting to rest those Genesis nay-sayers. This is the first in a 4-part series of biblical fiction, which will also include The Tower and the Caves, The Flies and the Bull, and The Merchant and the Pearl.

America has just fought the Civil War and young John Stevenson, fresh from Scotland, is captivated with the noble idea of teaching the freed slaves. Sent to Texas by the American Missionary Association, he lands in the middle of trouble. Battling hate, a deadly epidemic, hurricanes and shady politics, he is rewarded by devoted scholars and the love of a woman. A novel based on actual letters and documents of a teacher of the freedmen, the story bring to life the sacrifices and challenges of these devoted and little-known missionaries.

Willis Cameron flies to Africa to work as the adult-education specialist in a large government development project. He longs for a fresh start but carries with him oversized emotional baggage: scars from a shattered romance and moral descent into alcohol and drugs, extreme wariness about relations with women and uncertainty about his purpose in life. At a dinner part he meets and falls in love with a missionary nurse who is engaged to a Canadian doctor. Esther Ferguson's vital Christian faith quickly conflicts with his scientific rationalism and agnosticism. Spiritual sparks fly as a car accident brings the two closer together. Esther accuses Willis of discarding something he has never fully examined and challenges him to read the Bible. Willis responds and through careful study is forced to accept the inspiration of Scripture and his own falling short of God's mark. The Holy Spirit eventually illuminates a Bible verse, sealing the new covenant with Christ. Esther's ambivalence toward Willis reaches a climax when her fiancé arrives in Ghana for a visit. Two days in Accra reveal his shallowness and force Esther to break the engagement. In a dramatic and satisfying conclusion a second accident helps forge a spiritual and romantic bond between Willis and Esther.

Eternal Words follows a professor of linguistics, Chaz Donovan, as he tries to unravel a mystery concerning ancient writing on clay tablets and later travels to a remote south Pacific Island to find members of a lost tribe who speak a strange, non-Polynesian language. Chaz's parents had been killed when he was in college and their deaths had shaken his belief in a loving God, although his aunt Verna, a Pentecostal Christian, constantly pleads with him and prays for him to re-establish his relationship with God. Verna regularly gives him supernatural "Words from God." This book allows the reader see Chaz face grave danger on the remote island, fall in love, regain his faith, and ultimately discover that all of these languages (Verna's words from the Lord, the clay tablet inscriptions, and the language of the lost tribe) are related, and, in fact, are "eternal words."

Rev. Daniel Jordan, pastor of Barnabas Baptist Church, organized an apologetics conference, and invited the local media and clergy to dinner at the Clever Caracal Restaurant so they could meet the conference speakers. Before the scheduled question-and-answer session though, an attendee made the mistake of standing up, taking a bullet intended for one of the speakers. To make matters worse, the deceased was a hit man hired to fulfill a contract. So who were the intended targets? Reverend Jordan, with long-time friends detective Bob Mullins, attorney Barry Logan, talk show hostess Shelly Mourning, former Ambassador Eddy Salmon, and athletic trainer Jen Logan join forces to uncover the murderer and who it was that hired the hit man. Along the way, they confront a cult called the Day of Jezreel. Can these former high school friends put the pieces to the puzzle together before the conference ends or the killer tries again, whichever comes first?

Amnesia . . . sequestered clues to a murder mystery . . . a dark family secret. Deep in the Appalachians is a tiny but wondrous valley called Sweetwater. Mysterious forces, both good and evil, have converged there to produce a tender but compelling story. Through occasional flights of fantasy, Jesse Gernon gets to peep "behind the curtain" and catch a glimpse of the Gloryland. What he discovers there may prove to be far different from anything you have ever imagined, but come see for yourself and be prepared for the unexpected.

Abbie Richardson and Keith Haliday have suffered devastating loss in their lives. Both share a common link - Abbie's dead husband, Joe. Abbie believes God has abandoned her. Timothy House, a unique residential school located in eastern Tennessee, makes an unexpected offer for Abbie to join their faculty. A mysterious letter and a serendipitous meeting at Camp 4Ever, the school's summer camp, bring Abbie face-to-face with Joe's old college friend, Keith. Keith is slowly putting his life back together after losing his wife and two teen-age children in a fiery car crash. Now a member of the faculty at Timothy House, Keith is rebuilding his trust in God one step of faith at a time. The question is, can Abbie? Can she be persuaded to open her heart again-- to God's love and Keith's?

The Surface of the Deep merges the narrative of the rise and demise of the world's most ancient civilization with a contemporary thriller of undersea exploration. We walk alongside the Tolideth, the father of the shipbuilders, as he struggles to save his family and remain faithful in an age of treachery. He must obey his God and build a refuge from promised impending doom while the powers of that age strive to devastate the family he cherishes. This primordial narrative is set alongside the story of Commodore Anthony Hosea who is commander of the USS Coronado. He also fights to save his family from cataclysmic forces even as he leads a team of explorers to locate the source of intense radiation below the surface of the Pacific. What they will find in the furthest depths of the ocean will challenge man's views of his origins and his final end as the ancient and the contemporary collide in The Surface of the Deep.

This story of love, sacrifice, bondage, oppression and most importantly, of victory takes place in a divided world. Reya's life has been one of peace in the lush northern country of Puria, while Mirana is mute and knows only misery among the Gailen people in the southern desert called Barren. When her fiancé is abducted and forced into slavery, a devastated Reya makes the decision to risk the journey into a strange and troubled land to use her dowry to buy him back. Meanwhile, Mirana is intrigued by the Purian men who have come into her father's household as slaves. She proposes escape if they will take her with them. There is a powerful twist as the two girls meet that leaves Mirana able to speak, teaches Reya a lesson about sacrifice, and begins a chain of events that will lead to the end of life as they know it. Reya wanted to find Ellis; Mirana wanted to find a new life; both of them found something they did not know they were looking for--their Creator, Abbah.

When a Christian Cenobite monk of the fifth century, AD, comes to trial for heresy, he relates the events of his various missions. On a mission to find out the source of heresy among barbarians, he is sent to a fortress where many Ostrogoths had been imprisoned. These prisoners had sought refuge from their own king and the Huns, for whom they had refused to fight. Though they had hoped to pledge loyalty to Rome, they found themselves persecuted by a wayward priest bent on finding a fabled stone believed to hold power over the weather. The protagonist becomes aware of the priest's schemes and becomes hunted by the priest. Eventually he comes to trial for allowing the imprisoned Goths to escape and accompanying them on their quest for redemption, to destroy the Huns, and to protect the Christian church. The trial raises many issues of doctrine and the purpose of the Church. The story reveals well-hidden forces at work for and against the Church and in the shaping of its history and of the world.

His Will is written from the perspective of Buddy, a young boy at the beginning of the novel who experiences childhood in the 1950s, adolescence in the 1960s, and the pressures of young adulthood in the early 1970s. Often filled with humor, the story is anecdotal and reminiscent of a simpler time. Based loosely on the apostle Paul's conversion, His Will reminds the reader that God's road will eventually lead to His purpose for good--despite our taking many detours along the way.

Circle of Doors is a modern mystery/adventure story chronicling the experiences of Ethan Grey, a scientist who receives the video journal of an anonymous young woman. The journal could be from another time, and its arrival pulls him out of a spiraling hopelessness caused by the loss of his family and career. Grey begins to consider scientific possibilities once arbitrarily dismissed as impossible. These new thoughts make him wonder if maybe the cynical ideologies he holds against his wife's "god" could also be in doubt. Prompted by Alex, a friend he meets by "coincidence," he sets out to find answers about the journal. One night after another horrific nightmare, Ethan finally reaches his end and attempts a prayer to ask for help from "his wife's god," whom he still isn't sure exists. In a subsequent and astounding experience, a strange man relates an incredible story of what is happening to him and why. To fully understand the meaning in the answers he seeks, Ethan must retrieve an ancient vessel lost 4,000 years before and complete its journey to a sacred place - a journey made entirely on "faith." Meanwhile a deadly and evil presence undermining our world's economics holds claim to the vessel and its power and is planning an incompressible deception now known only to Ethan and an extraordinary young woman who kept a journal.

Ten-year old Bobby suffers a badly broken leg. After surgery the body's bone building cells, called osteoblast and osteoclast or Bone Blobs, go to work. However, they come under attack from what seems to be Bobby's own antibodies. The bone blobs form teams to investigate the body's systems and find where the invaders are coming from. Forces are at work outside the body as well. When Bobby's four friends learn that he may lose his leg, they blame the doctor and set out to stop him. The four ten-year old boys quickly find themselves at odds with the police and their parents while trying to convince them that the doctor is at blame. The doctor has developed a virus that disguises itself as antibodies and attacks bone blobs. He is secretly experimenting on patents trying to develop a new drug and getting kickbacks from someone in the prosthetics company. The players and evidence come together just in time to save Bobby's leg. In the process, Bobby's family learns something about grace and forgiveness.

The book follows a group of warriors appointed by God called the "Chosen." These warriors can see every demon and angel that roams the earth and hides behind each human action. Together the chosen fight battles in falling churches and they banish demons that taunt politicians and lazy Christians. By destroying the demons, the chosen bring revivals, stronger Christians, and a more unified society. After the strongest warrior "falls from her walk with God," she goes through life as a "human" once again and deals with issues such as guilt, pride, jealousy, anger, and more. Meanwhile, humankind is being influenced by a "Hitler-like" politician who will force them all to wear the mark of the beast unless the chosen can stop him.

This is a story of sin, deception, undeserved conviction and punishment, and eventual redemption. Protagonist John Hatcher, a former news reporter becomes press secretary to the governor and finds himself a rising star in state politics. John leads a double life. Having married into wealth and the means to position himself in the national political machine, John carries on an extra-marital affair. His life changes when the paramour is murdered. John is convicted of her murder. Everything good is gone. A former colleague, Herb Bowen, a Christian visits John in prison. Extreme bitterness eventually gives way to contrition and acceptance of God's grace. DNA eventually proves John is not the killer. Released from prison, and released from his former sins, John seeks a new start in Christ.

1640, off the wild New England coast. Exiled by Boston's Puritan elite to Red Moon Island, these determined Christians suffer escalating deprivations, quarantine, mutiny, murder, and pirates overpowering them until they discover how to free themselves with their faith.

The Great, Great Blue is based on a phrase from the Lord's Prayer: " . . . forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Baxter Zogg hasn't been home in 22 years and now he wonders why he made the trip. That is, until he remembers the need to put Dad's sins into perspective, give and receive forgiveness, and win back Karen his wife. Dad's demented, sister Judith is bent on ruining Tribute Harbor, and this old Connecticut estate has a unique former life all its own. The discovery of 38 human skulls only triples the scope of his Dad's sins, or so Baxter thinks as he goes deeper into former lives lurking in the cellars and shadows. So what does a demented man, a soldier's Journal from 1668, and this old mansion reveal about the path the Father asks us to take? 108,000 words; Adult Christian and General fiction markets

On its face, Russian River is a rollicking adventure story about a war between Russian and American fur traders in California at the time of the American occupation, depicting in microcosm the intense struggle among nations and races - Yankees, Europeans, Mexicans, and Native Americans - for possession of the territory. But at its heart, it is the story of one man's search for redemption after committing a brutal crime in the name of God. Exonerated by state and church, this man nonetheless condemns himself, and rejects all of the ideals which he believes falsely led him to err. He even challenges God to destroy him, as a demonstration of divine morality. But when God does answer, he discovers a solution he never anticipated, one that he can only take up at the cost of his own life. Although animated by Christian themes and principles, Russian River addresses universal concerns that should also have appeal to the mainstream market. It shows the power of God working silently and mysteriously in a world fraught with perplexity and danger.

The Awakening is a science fiction tale dealing with many of the bioethical issues currently facing our society. The book addresses the ethics of in vitro fertilization, the production, use and destruction of frozen embryos; sperm donor babies; genetic engineering; trans-human combinations (chimeras); pharmacology; eugenics; and nanotechnology. Through story, the difficult issues surrounding the use of the new capabilities available through biotechnology are explored. These include lack of consent, lack of identity, lack of family heritage, the power to design and control human evolution, the responsibility to use technology for the good, the effect that new technologies may have on society and civilization, and the potential loss of humanity. This book is not intended to be a technical treatment of the topic. It is intended to be an introduction to the issues by seeing how these new technologies could play out in a real life situation.

The work is based on a phrase from the Lord's Prayer: " . . . forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Baxter Zogg hasn't been home in 22 years and now he wonders why he made the trip. That is, until he remembers the need to put Dad's sins into perspective, give and receive forgiveness, and win back Karen his wife. Dad's demented, sister Judith is bent on ruining Tribute Harbor, and this old Connecticut estate has a unique former life all its own. The discovery of 38 human skulls only triples the scope of his Dad's sins, or so Baxter thinks as he goes deeper into former lives lurking in the cellars and shadows. So what does a demented man, a soldier's Journal from 1668, and this old mansion reveal about the path the Father asks us to take?

1640, off the wild New England coast. Exiled by Boston's Puritan elite to Red Moon Island, these determined Christians suffer escalating deprivations, quarantine, mutiny, murder, and pirates overpowering them until they discover how to free themselves with their faith.

Rebekah Larson is a single 29-year-old high school English teacher who loves her life and her students. When a simple foot surgery hospital billing goes wrong she falls (literally) into the hands of the hospital administrator, Matt Harrelson. Their whirlwind courtship and wedding are everything Rebekah dreams of until Matt becomes increasingly involved in a spiritual pursuit. Through a young couple they meet at church, he finds the answers in a relationship with Christ. Rebekah struggles to understand why the true love they've found for each other is not enough to satisfy him. And if she's honest - her own fears and moments of emptiness didn't disappear when she said, "I do." A rebellious teen from one of her classes, as well as her unexpected pregnancy and Matt's tenuous hold on his hospital job, lead her to accept the truth of Psalm 107:9--"For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness."

This is an adventure story adapted from Proverbs 25:11, which states that the words we speak influence our behavior. This story is written to minister to children between the ages of 10 and 15 years. The inspiration for this story came from the writer's involvement in a counseling ministry, where the root causes of emotional problems were traced back to childhood hurts. Timothy Torrens has an encounter with "Wisdom," and then takes his friends on an underground adventure where they confront the roots of their negative past. With the help of "Wisdom," Timothy shows his friends how to overcome the past and look forward to a positive future. Timothy draws encouragement from Daniel who lived through the Babylonian captivity in 600 BC.

Jake Martens is not an ordinary java junkie. His pact to amass a fortune with the black gold he holds in his cup drives every move he makes. He's the son of a Mennonite coffee farmer in Brazil, and is a prodigal with a grudge. There might be casualties along the way, but in his quest for justice, Jake will not be one of them. Black Gold takes a look at the human side of coffee production. Christian subsistence farmers in Mexico struggle to keep their sons from the temptation of illegal immigration and strive to meet the demands of buyers. Two businessmen complete for Jake's consulting services as he predicts the weather patterns that affect the lucrative coffee futures market. Karen Bates, the young morning shift manager at the Daily Grind, is caught in the middle of Jake's struggle. It is unclear if their friendship and adventurous journey will bring Jake back to faith or to despair; back to his home or deeper into a world of corporate deception.

in 1951 the body of an unknown white man is found in the Mississippi River. Two black men discover it while fishing. A young boy, Jake Conner, visits his country cousins in the small Delta town of Cotton City and begins parallel journeys discovering the dead man's identity and the fate of other characters throughout the book. Along the way, Jake befriends a stalwart black man who has recently returned from the Korean War. This man teaches Jake that Confederates were neither black nor white, but actually were gray, establishing a common bond between the two races. Throughout the summer, Jake learns of dark forces from the past. With the camaraderie of his family, the acquaintance of a simple-minded sharecropper, and the eccentricities of a strange woman he meets on a bus, he also gets a glimpse of the future of the agrarian land of Mississippi.

This is a dramatic Christmas tale about young Chris Ballentine, his mourning and weary family, and the three men living temporarily in mountain hobo camp in Pennsylvania. Combining several essential elements of the Christmas story within a current time period, the story imparts by example God's selfless gift of his son through the men's personal sacrifices, generosity and assumed risk. While the story features a fourteen year-old central figure, its broader appeal is to families.

Wrestling with his domineering wife's accidental death, the beloved pastor of a large southern church grieves his sour marriage while grappling with his part in allowing it to deteriorate. As his heart slowly heals, he and his church assume he will eventually remarry. In their mind's eye, one particular widow in his flock seems to hold the key to the pastor and the parsonage. God, however, has a different plan in store, one that forces the pastor, his married children, and the church to look at grace in a way they never have before. His plan includes an abused, divorced single mother with a young daughter who has been absent from any church for a decade. Hand-plucked by providence, this world-weary woman must decide where God has been for the past ten years and whether she wants him, let alone the man of God, to be part of her life. As she ponders her circumstance, the pastor himself faces old failures, his dead wife's journals, and the opportunity to learn life lessons he never knew existed.

Extrapolating today's media-led rejection of Christians as stupid, this Space Trilogy is set in the future at a time when Christians can only be farmers in rural ghettos. As a youngster, Alicia develops a love for fixing mechanical things. The spaceport near her farm is desperate for mechanics, giving her an entrance into a forbidden career, wherein she rises to captain of the powerful spacecraft Horizon. Today's science does not realize the power of assumptions to derive seemingly logical, but incorrect conclusions. This trilogy explores many of the common assumptions that have led us to incorrect conclusions: evolution, the size of the universe, the power of logic, the assumption that only the foolish believe in God. The God Protocol also deals with deeper topics than the typical salvation and trust-in-the-Lord fare, such as pursuing your gifts, hearing God's voice, and understanding his ways.

The theme is Christ's personal activism working through the lives of his believers; the setting is military; the time frame is 1945 through 2020. A variety of characters, from different environments and beliefs, are all unwittingly used by Christ to fulfill his purpose. The story follows a lad from a Christian home as he grows to manhood and becomes a decorated US Navy fighter pilot, the girl from the dysfunctional family down the street who is molded into a Christian by the lad's mother and becomes his wife, an atheist with a genius IQ whose goal is to be the Navy's top admiral, a Muslim who believes he is following Allah's will to destroy America, and a Satanist who may or may not be the Antichrist (let the reader decide). The story includes angels who periodically intervene.

This book explores the conflict between expansive spirituality and fanaticism, the strife at the fundamentalist level between the three Judeo-Christian religions, and the harmony that has always existed at the mystical level. The manuscript reflects both the brutality of the times and the inspiring actions of the few, a novelized reconstruction of a critical twenty-seven year period of the Knights Templar's history between the years 1288 and 1315.

A Christian allegorical story to appeal to girls aged 8-12, about a little girl who steps into a picture of the house-on-the-rock in a book of Bible stories, and meets Jesus there. The "little house in heaven" is inside the house-on-the-rock, and has her name on the door. It is one of the "many mansions" that Jesus said are "in my Father's house" in the Bible. As things happen to her in her earthly life, these buildup "treasures in heaven" to furnish her little "mansion" cottage, which Jesus shows her on her visits there whenever she steps into the picture.

The plot follows a father and a son as they each struggle to find God's purpose for their life in the midst of a world that has been stripped down to a bare existence following terrorist attacks. At its heart, the novel is a romance, or rather two love stories wrapped around each other. The story is a platform for examining father-son and husband-wife relationships. The setting and style are designed to strip away all the mud and grime of life and reduce the characters to their base emotions. The story is meant to speak to all of us who are working too hard and neglecting our core relationships to the point that there is very little fulfillment and meaning in our lives. When the heroes escape an oppressive life, it is through submission to God's will, not by their own strength or by some unique gift or supernatural circumstance. The book gives a voice to the inner discontentment with life that is defining our culture, but with a message of hope that we can step out of the darkness to something more meaningful.

Susan Moore is the eldest of three sisters and the "quiet" one. After her fiancé dies in an accident, she isn't sure she will ever fall in love again. But when her father counsels Paul, a young widower, Susan feels a pull from God toward this man. Their marriage begins with a decision to love each other, and both husband and wife are blessed when the emotions follow. The Quiet Daughter Speaks is a family story set in Texas in the 1950s. The primary theme then explores the beginning of a love relationship as a decision rather than an accident. Other themes addressed include single parenthood, teenage rebellion, and learning to listen to and hear God.

As a young man, Jacob Adams was a rising star in the emerging nuclear power industry. Fresh from college he was hired to help design the world's first nuclear power plant, which was being built in his hometown. But when an accident takes the life of his only son, Jacob turns to alcohol to ease his pain and guilt. He becomes an alcoholic and eventually loses his job, his family, and his faith. Three decades later he lives in poverty in the shadow of the defunct power plant where he now works as a janitor. Through a series of random events he becomes trapped, alone, in the dark recesses of the plant. During his forced sobriety Jacob finally faces his past and begins a spiritual journey like none he has ever experienced. Meanwhile, as the mystery of his disappearance widens, the lives of many in his small hometown are affected. Long-buried secrets come to light as friends, family, and police join the search. But will they find Jacob before it's too late?

This is a contemporary Christian novel about single mom Charity Adams and her search for her missing son, TJ. Can she find God in her search as well? Charity knew she was taking some risks leaving TJ alone while she worked two jobs. Now her son is missing, she has lost her job and nearly broken her foot, all in the space of a few hours. When she stumbles on the steps of Victory Assembly Church she encounters ex-motorcycle gang member turned Pastor Rick Thorne and the unorthodox members of a church that "is not your usual Sunday morning experience." Hundreds of miles away, TJ arrives on the porch steps of an elderly, widowed and childless woman with a curious cat and the best bologna and mayonnaise sandwich around. As TJ tries to figure out the best way to get back to his mom, he forges new friendships with Ophelia Davis and her watermelon growing neighbor Thad Callahan. It will take a disaster to reunite Charity and TJ. Have they finally found a good place?

Susan Moore is the eldest of three sisters and the "quiet" one. After her fiancé dies in an accident, she isn't sure she will ever fall in love again. But when her father counsels Paul, a young widower, Susan feels a pull from God toward this man. Their marriage begins with a decision to love each other, and both husband and wife are blessed when the emotions follow. The Quiet Daughter Speaks is a family story set in Texas in the 1950s. The primary theme then explores the beginning of a love relationship as a decision rather than an accident. Other themes addressed include single parenthood, teenage rebellion, and learning to listen to and hear God.

What really happened to the treasures of Herod's Temple after the sack of Rome in A.D. 70? Their fate is shrouded in mystery. Former art historian Michael Grammaticus, Jr. is awakened suddenly one night to learn that his parents have been killed in an automobile accident. Soon afterward, he receives a mysterious envelope in the mail. Trailing it leads him to Rome and to a fascinating world of medieval art, ancient Jewish catacombs, and a dangerous mix of religion and international politics. Descended from an endless line of Greek scholars. Michael can't resist being drawn into their cryptic world, and soon the same relentless forces that destroyed his father begin to hound Michael as well. In Rome he is thrust into relationship with his brilliant but impassive grandfather, as well as a beautiful and outspoken professor of Greek. With both, the sardonic and emotionally repressed Michael forges an often tempestuous partnership, as the clues lead him not only to the reasons for his father's death, but also to a discovery of something far greater than the temple treasure.

The story, set against the backdrop of a killer pandemic, is about a crisis of faith, choices, and the consequences of those choices. It is a story of how the main character changes from someone who is angry with God, into someone obsessed with the power to heal no matter what the cost. It is also the story of plans and how these plans are subject to God's overall plan. The fallen angel, Chemosh, ostensibly seeks forgiveness. Father Jacob, at first plans to help the townspeople. Asmodeus, another fallen angel, hopes to show Chemosh's betrayal of Lucifer. Cardinal Lazetta plans to be elected pope by any means. In the end it's God's plan that prevails.

This is a fictional account of a man, a Christian journalist, who, while at a spiritual retreat, is given the privilege of doing a story/report on hell. He is escorted there by an angel, and (at God's direction) escorted through hell by a fallen angel. The book is short, but poignant.

Danica is about an abused girl who grows up and uses her misfortunes to help others, sometimes to the detriment of her own safety. Her life is filled with characters she helps and who help her with many surprises along the way.

23 December 2012 portrays a world where most of humanity lives in domed cities ruled by The Jaal, a leader who is loved and admired by the dome's inhabitants - but who is really evil. A resistance movement with two bases attempts to organize a mass migration into space. The title refers to "Operation Retrieve," a group sent out by the resistance to investigate a mysterious dramatic event that happened on December 23, 2012, and which gave Satanists ascendance. A young man named Nick makes contact with the resistance, and through them is exposed for the first time to the idea of God. He sets about exploring the validity of God's experience and in the process discovers secrets about his own past. The novel ends with revealed secrets and a battle between good and evil. The characters realize that no matter what the circumstances, they must never lose hope and faith in God's promises.

Detour to a Dream is the story of a modern day Jonah, but instead of being caught in a literal storm at sea and swallowed by a whale on his way to eventually obeying God's command, Jonah Dunningbrook's journey is detoured by the death of a friend, love of a woman, the tragic death of his family, and by his own disobedience and rebellion. But the love of another woman and her daughter, who have suffered their own loss, set him back on the right track, only to have the birth of a handicapped child derail him again. He battles alcohol, living in the streets, muggers, and thoughts of suicide, but with the help of an old friend he finds love and redemption and eventually back to the road that had been set before him and the fulfillment of a dream.

Juan, a small town mechanic of mixed parentage and religious traditions and steeped in the local history and traditions of the Anishinabek, (Chippewa) takes his faith seriously and strives to understand what God wants of him. One summer, at the turn of the second millennium, Juan recruits a cousin and several friends to accompany him from Bemidji to St. Paul, to discover and proclaim God's expectations of service to others. As the band travels through farm country and small towns toward St. Paul, they touch many with their message and their service to the poor and the marginalized. But some are not happy; to them Juan’s message is critical of those who exercise civic, corporate and religious authority. The tension between their message of service and the way of the world comes to a head in St. Paul, seals Juan's fate and changes forever the lives of his companions.

Set in the American Civil War, the story is told from the first person perspective, a father writing to his three children many years after the war. During the summer of 1862, a thirty-four-year-old store owner, husband and father believes he is called to leave his comfortable life and volunteer for service in the Union army. He enlists in the 14th Connecticut Regiment, which is sent to the front to join the Army of the Potomac just prior to the Battle of Antietam. The historical exploits of this regiment provide the backdrop for the novel as this Connecticut Christian endures two years of physical, emotional, and spiritual trials. There are scenes of joy and laughter, of bitter conflict on the battlefield, and several of deepest sorrow that just might provoke a tear. In the end the man, changed by his time at war, returns to the familiar comforts of his home and family. The man finally returns to the familiar comforts of his home and family, but several years later is led to journey through the theater of war once again to learn a life-changing lesson from a simple backwoods woman from North Carolina.

This historical romance with an element of suspense begins in Atlanta, Georgia and moves to the Arizona Territory in 1882. Mary Charlotte Stuart is marrying Monty Ray Hendrickson--or so she thinks, until she arrives at the altar and finds a stranger standing in place of her fiancé. She looks to the parson for help, but he, too is a stranger. Mary Charlotte gets to Arizona, but not as she and Monty had planned. The husband, she only knows as Sam, is murdered and Mary Charlotte finds herself in the Cochise County jail in Tombstone charged with both murder and horse theft. Within the confines of the jail cell, and with the help of a Christian woman who befriends her, Mary Charlotte is able to let go of the bitterness she has carried since childhood. Only moments before the judge sentences her to the gallows, the real killer confesses to the crime. Monty and Mary Charlotte reunite and marry before moving to their ranch. With God's help, they will work through the shadows that shroud their home on Amethyst Mountain.

In 19th Century England, young Lady Beverley struggles to prove her innocence in the murder of her father. Seemingly alone in the world, she accepts the help of Mr. Hydemark who oversees the stunned household and acts as her spiritual advisor. His counsel ultimately leads to her faith and spiritual enlightenment. Although other suspicious characters with motive come into play, Lady Beverley remains the prime suspect. Her friends encourage and aide her flight from the law, but she is eventually apprehended and sentenced to deportation. At the last minute, her maid is shot by one of the murderers and, believing she is on her death bed, reveals the sinister plot, thus freeing Lady Beverley from her harsh sentence. Naturally, Lady Beverley marries her protector, Maxwell St. Ives, also known as Lord Hampden. After all is said and done, the reader remembers the Prologue which reveals that Lord Burnside died a natural death.

A pastor on the edge of burn out. A wife near the end of her marriage. A church on its last legs. An evil hungry for blood. Mary and Audrey Bennett are a typical ministry couple with an atypical ministry life. Crushed by the unexpected death of their daughter, they find themselves serving as Mark's childhood church and stuck in the throes of depression. A chance encounter with a stranger leaves Mark shaken and disturbed, and life in the small town of Centerville, Georgia begins to unravel. The stranger's car is connected to a missing person in a nearby town. An investigation of the stranger leads to a bizarre police sketch. Two men are murdered at a restaurant still under construction. A landfill employee is almost run down by a maniac truck driver. A small boy runs away in the middle of the night. And the church is on the verge of destruction. By the time the dust settles, the church lies in ruins and the lives of everyone in town will be changed.

Ebenezer Cole, a Union surgeon during the Civil War, has seen a murder. During the chaotic retreat from the First Battle of Manassas, he witnessed the cold-blooded execution of a Washington socialite, and now feels duty-bound to pursue the killer. The problem is, no one believes him. The body is missing, and the corridors of power, both in the Army and in Washington politics, are closing on him one by one. And Dr. Cole has problems of his own, still struggling to recover mentally and spiritually from the accident that claimed his wife and son. With the help of a new and highly unusual friend, Cole will pursue justice to the ill-fated battlefield of Ball's bluff, and attempt to come to terms with a God he can't bring himself to trust again.

This work of Christian fantasy is targets young teens and preteens. Julie and Peter, ages 10 and 13, lived with their parents and baby brother in the Land between the Rivers. When marauding soldiers from beyond the mountains suddenly kidnap their parents, the two children set out on a journey to find and rescue their parents. During the trip through the forest and over the mountains to Karkom, they meet friends and foes, discover their parents (and their own) true identities, and meet a mysterious guide named Emmaus. They learn spiritual lessons, grow in wisdom and knowledge, and unite with a group of believers called the Hidden Ones, who assist them to their goal. In the spirit of The Chronicles of Narnia and Pilgrim's Progress, this children's story combines spiritual insights with fantasy adventure.

In this YA fantasy, the fate of the world might depend on the choice of a cockroach. In a world that has been all but destroyed by the greed and rapacity of mankind, the Crawling Folk live in fear, hated and despised by humans. All save two. They choose to ally themselves with fifteen-year-old Elanor and her companions and begin a long journey in search of a far-away land and a mythical Singer. As they journey across a hostile world, their quest threatened by the Followers of the Dark One, the company members must confront their fears and prejudices and discover their special strengths and talents if they are to fulfill the ancient prophecy. Ultimately, however, their efforts may not be enough, for it is not only the human travelers who must choose their path carefully. The Kin and the Crawling Folk must also choose between Aelion the Singer and Achlys the Dark One--and the choice of a cockroach could change the world forever.

This is a sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, story of thirty years in a man's life, and his spiritual growth during that time. He begins as an automobile mechanic, buys and improves the station, gets into small-town politics, and grows increasingly active in his church. He makes many mistakes along the way. For health reasons he is forced to choose between public service and church service, and chooses church service. At age fifty he reflects how good the Lord has been to him throughout his life.

This is a story of loss, redemption and love set between Edinburg and Spain. David Hidalgo is a successful Anglo-Spanish pastor leading a thriving church in Madrid but when his wife is murdered by a drugs cartel, he retreats back to Edinburgh, his childhood home. He makes a living teaching Spanish and pastoring a small, safe, elderly congregation but when the granddaughter of a church member goes missing, he has to decide whether to risk becoming involved with drug issues all over again. The gang the girl has become involved with relocate back to Spain taking her with them and David Hidalgo is the only one who can reach and rescue her. Meanwhile he is rediscovering life in a deepening relationship with Gillian Lockhart, lecturer in Scots Language, as she is challenged by his Christian faith. Both find themselves on spiritual as well as a physical journeys as they travel to Spain to look for the girl. When she is unexpectedly returned and Gillian abducted, David comes face to face with the man who murdered his wife.

This is an historical novel set in Australia one hundred and eighty-four years ago. The story is woven around a Scottish titled gentleman, his wife and sister, who emigrate to Van Diemen's Land in 1824 to take up land. Early on in the story a conflict develops between the brother and sister, caused by the dominance of the male head of the family over his women-folk (as was the custom in those days). It is Lady Catherine's defiance of her brother that leads to disastrous consequences for all of them. Things go from bad to worse until the principal characters come to know the life-changing power of a loving God in their lives.

Three young people and a U.S. Marshal risk their lives to snatch fleeing Christians from the clutches of a demonic militia and find themselves faced with the very prophecy and plagues written in the Bible as they endeavor to get Christians to a mountain safe haven.

Alex Hunter and his younger brother, Tommy, are the sons of Col. Matthew Hunter, who pilots a fighter jet for the U.S. Air Force. The Hunter family has recently moved to the fictional town of Emerald Cove, a community nestled on the Florida panhandle. Both boys are preparing for an exciting football season at their new school, Emerald Cove, home of the Seagulls. However, the start of a promising season is threatened when terrorists attack the United States on September 11, 2001, and their dad is deployed to Northern Afghanistan to fight the war on terrorism. Alex's faith is shaken when his dad is reported missing in action. Despite the turmoil, Alex earns the respect of his peers; and the Seagull football team, who have never even had a winning season, set their sites on the Gulf Coast Conference title. As the Seagulls head towards the championship game and Col. Hunter's fate remains uncertain, Alex must rely strongly on his faith in God, his love for his dad and the support of family and friends.

Jennifer is a young, successful executive working in the creative sector of a Minneapolis advertising agency. But success comes with a price and the long hours in a big city begin to claim her spirit. She finds a secret in her great-grandmothers clothing drunk that opens the beginning to a past she never knew. It also starts an adventure in search for a treasure and changes her life forever. She uncovers a factual history while unlocking the mysteries of daily survival in South Dakota from over 100 years ago. She also discovers something she lost long ago . . . herself. While Jennifer is a fictional character set in today's world, her life intertwines with the factual history of South Dakotan, Francis Steward Jones, born in 1895. There are many differences between the two characters whose lives are divided by a century of vast changes, yet some similarities remain. As she journeys into Francis's past and the secret left behind, Jennifer's future unfolds. She discovers a past she knew little about and finds the character within herself she never knew existed.

The Twinkling focuses on the life of Korle, an angel that fell from heaven under the authority of Lucifer. It explores unspoken possibilities: that of the fallen angels being given a chance to choose which God to serve, with that choice being made during their span of time on earth. The story weaves in and out of three worlds: one that is totally evil, one that is totally good and one that has a mixture of both good and evil. The "earth story," deals with sibling jealousy and the profound chaos it can cause. Paralleling jealousy clear back to the motivation that caused Lucifer to fall, this story reveals not only how abusive events were instigated by the jealous, older sister, but how they worked together for good to the victim regardless of the original intent. The story reveals the upward gain of the victim, along with the downward spiral of the abuser. There are twists and turns in the tale, with a surprise ending.

This novel centers on the lives of two well loved, happy children who suddenly face the loss of everything. It's a glimpse into a different kind of life in the run-down area of a large city where they are sent to live. Many themes thread throughout the story, especially the message of salvation and the hope we have in Jesus Christ, and the appreciation we should have for the people and things in our lives. There's also the truth that we must listen to God and obey and pray for his guidance and he will work out our life according to his will.

The novel concerns a new Christian and her attempts to sort out her life, her priorities and accomplish her dream of meeting a suitable man for marriage and motherhood. The man she falls in love with is a Christian widow who is having difficulty grieving. He has two small children to bring up and this is a struggle for him. The story deals with his uncertainty with commitment to another marriage. The novel deals with single parenthood, Christian beliefs, death and grieving.

Lisa Porter stood by her husband through two tours in Afghanistan and one tour in Iraq. She stood by him through five terms in Congress. Now he's running for president with both national and international conspiracies threatening their lives and reputations. Can Lisa Porter hold on to her faith and stand by her crusader husband, who is determined to win against all odds? The Independent Conservative Party, the ICP, breaks away from the Republicans carrying most of the Christian Right with them. Twelve years later, the ICP has a chance to win the presidency with a crusader champion and his wife leading the way. The book follows the campaign from after the convention to the Inauguration. Lisa faces bigotry, her mortality, and the reality that her husband has character flaws unbecoming his Christianity. The emotional journey of Lisa and Bill Porter's spiritual growth in the midst of a nasty political campaign provides the engine that drives this novel.

This novel centers on the lives of two well loved, happy children who suddenly face the loss of everything. It's a glimpse into a different kind of life in the run-down area of a large city where they are sent to live. Many themes thread throughout the story, especially the message of salvation and the hope we have in Jesus Christ, and the appreciation we should have for the people and things in our lives. There's also the truth that we must listen to God and obey and pray for his guidance and he will work out our life according to his will.

Escape to Danger is the story of Timon, an abused and unjustly accused young Greek slave who is filled with hate and a desire for revenge. He runs away only to encounter the Apostle Paul and his company on their way to Rome. Through their words and the shipwreck experience, Timon is converted to Christianity. He finds himself conflicted with Christian teachings. he is an illegal runaway, the property of another man. His adversary, Cassius, seeks to kill him. Why should he not reciprocate? When circumstances put Cassius in his control, Timon must decide to rescue his enemy and loose his freedom or let the man drown and compromise his newly embraced principles.

Sadie Copper is a messenger of God, performing miracles commanded by Archangel Gabriel, and protected by a guardian angel. All her virtue is threatened by the growing influence of two evil foes residing in her small town. Will her faith be enough to defeat both a fallen angel and a discarded demon?

John Masters awakens in an unfamiliar city, initially thinking he is suffering from amnesia, only to discover it is omnesia instead. Instead of his having forgotten, everyone has forgotten him! His vocation as a pastor, accomplishments, marriage -- even his name-- have vanished from the world, and those whom he knows as his closest friends do not recognize him. What caused this? What, if anything, can he reclaim?

Hannah has two desires: a fulfilling marriage and a baby. But after five years of trying for both, neither one is becoming a reality. Her husband, Sean, is detached and doesn't share her concerns, so Hannah can only cling to the hope that if she can conceive, the child will draw them closer together. A surprising positive pregnancy test is the answer to Hannah's prayers, and she's convinced that this is the beginning of her dreams coming true. But Sean doesn't share in her excitement, and before it is even born, the child that is supposed to heal their marriage is only driving them further apart. A devastating miscarriage leaves Hannah reeling, and Sean, who never wanted the baby, blaming himself. It seems that their lost child was a pointless heartache, and not all the answer to Hannah's prayers . . . but a beautiful song and mysterious midnight awakenings are the beginning of a journey towards healing for them both.

Real Love is about a blossoming young adult who travels to another country, and ends up not only realizing God's amazing love, but also his ability to unite two completely different individuals. The main character is a quirky girl who may not be the most typical Christian, but can certainly describe his real love for her.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, why pack a pistol for protection? Such is the dilemma a burned-out therapist faces as he fights to keep his strife-filled family afloat in this novel. With faith and family crumbling, he gives into his fear following an attempted break-in at home and buys his first gun. His fascination with firearms soars, as do his feelings towards an intriguing female client, whose rapist has returned to taunt her. He confronts the rapist, accidentally shooting him. Thinking he's murdered him, he crashes under the watchful eye of a mysterious retired detective/police informant. When the therapist learns that his bullet was not the one that killed the rapist, he tracks his client down, only to be double-crossed by her and wind up fighting for his life.

The story opens with the engagement of Rebecca and John, an Amish couple living in Southern Ohio. Provoked by her declaration of love to John, this event begins to bring back memories from Rebecca's past. Returning that evening to a ring she has hidden and forgotten, the dilemma heightens. Finding an apparent solution seems impossible until Rebecca's mother sends her to their old community to help her aunt with her coming baby. There, among her familiar childhood surroundings she retraces the love she had for Atlee, in an intense sixty grade, though seemingly harmless romance. Set against the sub-plot, of a woman's obsession with her father's lost heritage. The connection with Rebecca is toyed at, but not fully disclosed. The work is part of a proposed series - Rebecca's Promise, Rebecca's Return, Rebecca's Choice.

What happens when God challenges Kayla Adams' well-established plans? An inexplicable chemistry connects Kayla and Scott, but when her dream of becoming a corporate executive is threatened, Kayla ends it. Eight years later, she bumps into Scott. Their connection still strong, Kayla struggles to squeeze him into her executive lifestyle. Shortly after reconnecting, an accident claims her memory, without which, she is unable to resume her corporate lifestyle. Gradually, she settles into suburban life with her family and Scott, hesitantly embracing new dreams. Kayla's memory is restored when Scott explains God courts his people in what is truly a divine romance. Reunited with her old dreams, she is torn between what was and what is. After several tumultuous months, Kayla realizes her new dreams have usurped her old ones, and she returns to Scott, proving Proverbs 16:9, "In his heart man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps."

When one unexpected event brings the lives of two completely opposite men together; they are thrust into the unbelievable idea of time travel. One, Tom, becomes completely absorbed into the concept, hoping to find a better reality in the past; the other, Larry, a devout Christian, questions whether re-doing or undoing an event is something that God would approve or allow. Shunning the help of friends and family, both men decide to use time travel to change events and set things right. Before long, however, both Tom and Larry become addicted to time travel, despite repeated warnings by the salesman who sold the time to them. Each time the men travel, a portion of their life is shaved off at the end, ultimately bringing on death faster than God planned. Repeated travel continues to drive the men further away from their friends and family, who suggest that every event is carefully orchestrated by God. Finally, the men are snapped out of their addicted lifestyle by the only one who can help them--Larry's deceased wife.

Fifteen years after sending her college sweetheart off to Vietnam, Barbara Mayfield travels to a reunion of her alma mater, hoping that time has not run out for her. All she has are memories of Rick Jenkins, the California surfer boy who vagrantly stole her heart and left her tearfully standing at the station. Reunited with Rick, Barbara must decide if she can forget the past and trust God enough to spend her future with Rick.

The Ascent of Mount Mandala is a parable of the spiritual journey. It tells the story of Mishel and Lorinda, who live in the land of Myrnia. While Myrnians are a race of climbers, most of them have settled for scaling the nearby peaks and not the distant majesty of Mount Mandala. As Mishel and Lorida begin their life-changing journey to Mount Mandala, they encounter unusual circumstances and tests, including a wilderness, the Lake of the Clouds, a monastery, and a valley of exile.

In this coming-of-age novel written for adults, Tina Hamilton's life is shaken when she learns that her father has a hidden, disturbing past. Tina recalls the summers of 1968 and '69, when she was ten years-old. Her father, Drew works hard to oppose the building of a theme park that will remove forever the charm of their generations-old Appalachian town. Anxiety grows as probing issues are raised, triggering a crisis that drives a wedge into the community. The real trouble erupts when Drew's past catches up to him, and Tina's confidence in a dad she adores is seriously shaken. Gradually she gains insight into his unexplained years and the change of heart which reshapes his life. The story, while espousing a Christian worldview, appeals to a general adult audience. The writer researched North Carolina Appalachian history and culture for fifteen years in preparing this book.

These are stories from Nonni, the writer's grandmother. About Nonni,the author writes, "She was wise in handling children and had a faith that was both simple and profound, and she had a theory or a story to explain everything." One day Davis found an old trunk in her parents' garage that was full of writing by Nonni. This book is a compilation of stories about and writings from a grandmother who loved her family deeply, and well.

Tucked into the hills of Bolivia, South America, a Christian School continues to receive students from all over the Americas. This second year, however, is met with new struggles and conflicts. New students bring the student body to the brink of civil war. The weather brings drought conditions that force them to live without electricity. The governments of several countries increase their hostility toward Christianity. The main focus is on two students, Peter, whose parents are among those labeled terrorists and Seth, the rebels' leader. Peter and Seth's struggle culminates in Peter being injured. This injury causes him to question God. Seth's struggle is largely his own anger. He did not want to come to South America, so he in turn takes it out on everyone else. In the end, Seth must face up to his own lack of character and he learns to be forgiven and to forgive. This is the sequel to Tomorrow's War.

In the not-so-distant future, biblical prophecies are unfolding at the speed of light. Due to the majority of the world conflicts being based around different belief systems, religious freedoms and freedom of speech are all but eliminated. Thanks to the rise in identity theft, cash flow is rapidly being replaced with micro-chips conveniently hidden below the surface of the skin. Finally, a powerful leader who has not publicly revealed himself, is controlling decisions at the United Nations with unprecedented success. In the midst of this world-wide chaos, a small group of firefighters led by Fire Engineer Donovan Law join forces seeking to restore the truth, but the government has other plans for these new-found terrorists. Engineer Donovan Law and his cadre soon find themselves battling the fires found in both the physical and spiritual realms. They know they are equipped to battle the fires in this world, the only question that remains . . . . Are they prepared to face the heat in a war over the soul?

This is a story of a roller-coaster ride into the world of the supernatural. Retired professor Ben T. Jenkins has been pining away over the loss of his beloved, deceased wife. A near-fatal heart attack sends the unbelieving protagonist into a coma and begins an incredible journey into the unknown. After escaping from a trip to hell, his journey lands him in heaven where he attempts to connect with his life-long partner. The story offers a look at how heaven and its inhabitants work out their lives on streets of gold. Intense, angelic warfare is balanced throughout by several tender, unfolding love stories. Front and center is an up close look at the character and love of God in his dealings with mankind. One world spills constantly into another as relatives and friends left behind try to work out their own lives in the shadow of their comatose dad and closest friend. Always simmering on the back burner is a mounting revival in which a now believing professor is being asked to play a major role upon his return to earth.

In the late 1880's, Philip Anderson, an orphan, finds happiness in the Dakota Territory. But the woman he loves is stolen by a rich and powerful business tycoon, Jacob, and Philip stands in Jacob's way. Philip is forced to protect life and property with a skill he loathes to have made public, accuracy with a gun. This first book of a series has many plot lines, from the mystery of his parent's death to Philip's personal desire to remain anonymous in a world that craves dime-novel heroes. Philip contends with a shootout, being framed as a bank robber that leads to courtroom drama, action in Deadwood and the Badlands, but makes friends with an ex-soiled dove, a U.S. Marshal, a cavalry commander, and many others. All this leads to the question, how much violence can a Christian use to protect himself and the ones he loves?

This is a tale as told through the eyes of a grandfather to his grandchildren, blending of faith, fantasy and folklore from Irish tradition. A group of "baby boomers" are on tour of Ireland where their leader Arthur (Papa) meets an elderly Shepherd who recognizes in Arthur a pureness of heart. Therefore the shepherd shares a secret involving the Shamrock. Later, at Clonmacnoise he meets Kathleen, the drapery lady, who actually reveals to him the fullness of the Secret Legend of the Shamrock and how the King of the Leprechauns is involved in preserving the secret. Arthur discovers an ancient map within the ruins and thus begins the Quest to solve a 1500 year old mystery as to where the stolen coin from the Pot of Gold of King Finbar VI, indeed his entire kettle, might be located. The reader is then taken throughout present day Ireland as the quest is joined by the "Roses" (Arthur's wife and friends). Through perilous events, magical intervention of the Wee Folk and evolving sleuthing techniques the "Thorn and Roses" reveal the true nature of the villainous Jaunty Cart drivers and discover the "stolen coin" and then the Pot of Gold itself. In the celebration which concludes the Quest, they also come to understand the truth of God's message.

This is a Christian adventure novel that targets the racing fan (48% are women). The venues and characters will be recognized as genuine because the author has been there--the story carries with it a sense of authenticity and realism. It is filled with action, hidden guilt, and ultimate redemption. Paul, the oldest brother of the Prevost family, is stuck in the mire of the past with an attitude to prove it. Leon, two time NASCAR Cup champion in the twilight of his career. Julius, also a NASCAR Cup driver but with much left to prove. Grace, sweet Gracie, beautiful and fiercely independent despite living in the confines of a wheel chair. Throw in a family friend and dispirited NASCAR chaplain and assorted other characters. Here is a modern day story of God's love and triumph.

The work addresses the use of death to solve life's problems. As a small boy, Mark Edwards saw his grandmother suffer and die of cancer, leaving him with a conviction that the only refuge from cancer's suffering is death. As a law student, he watched his father die a horrible death from cancer and blames the oncologist, Dr. Tom Whitby, for his suffering. Now the nightmare recurs when Mark learns that his mother, Clara, has lung cancer and Whitby is again the oncologist. Under the influence of his former law professor, a euthanasia activist, Mark sets out to terminate his revered mother's life, thereby protecting her from suffering. The novel shows how the seeming expediency of euthanasia and abortion plunges those perpetrating it into a maelstrom of guilt, deceit, and separation. It also reveals how redemption and reconciliation are still available to those who commit the ultimate expedient of tampering with life.

The book is a woman's suspense novel that asks, "What happens when Julie Taylor, a modern young Christian woman, buys a cabin in the beautiful Appalachian foothills to relax from her work as a psychologist? What happens when she falls in love with Mark Andersen, mayor of Windy Ridge, who believes religion is for women and those needing a crutch? What happens when a stalker puts her in danger but Mark thinks she is paranoid like his former wife, Moriah, who committed murder and died in a mental hospital?" The result is action, suspense, and romance until the tentacles of the stalker unwind to set Julie free.

Journeyman is a historical novel based on Timothy's journey with the Apostle Paul in Asia Minor. It is rich in biblical background while being dramatic in the fictional stories used to fill in plausible elements not included in the Bible. It's a novel of Timothy's self-discovery, calling and mission. He meets Paul in Lystra and witnesses the healing of a disabled man. He faces conflict with his father and the Jewish community as he seeks to interpret the miracle in the context of Judaism, pantheism and Christianity. He is converted and joins Paul. While journeying through Galatia, Timothy encounters the Phrygian cult of Cybele, experiences religious intolerance, engages in Olympic training and assists a Thracian family pillaged by raiding Gauls. He arrives at Troas, a more seasoned disciple, ready for further adventures in Macedonia. Historical and theological elements give the reader a growing knowledge of first century evangelism, church development and theology.

Bloodline chronicles the spiritual journey of a Christian man, Jack McGarrity, over a period of two years following the death of his family. Against the backdrop of a small Midwest city and encouraged by an old counselor, the protagonist comes head-to-head with the dark secrets of the city and joins his mentor in a search for the man's troubled son. The young man, unbeknownst to both of them, is on a diabolical mission. The three lives converge in this novel of suspense and manifestation of the operation of the spirit world in the lives of ordinary people.

If Jesus had lived in present-day America, how would people explain and respond to his body missing from the tomb and the claims of his resurrection made during the forty days before he rose to heaven? Tim Loy, investigative reporter, asks for the assignment to discover the truth about Jesus' missing body. He first interviews people who give justifications for the missing body including it was "stolen" and "he escaped." After interviewing several men and women who are witnesses to the resurrection, Tim doubts all the possible solutions to the mystery of Jesus' missing body, including the resurrection. But when Jesus appears before Tim and more than five hundred others, Tim cannot refuse the opportunity to believe Jesus is raised from the dead. Then Jesus invites Tim and his friend Jamar to meet with him and others for ten days. His teachings and discussions introduce the reader to Jesus' essential teachings. Mostly through dialogue the reader investigates Jesus' resurrection, the conviction of the witnesses, and is presented with an opportunity to hold the convictions that Jesus is alive and wants to walk daily in unity with him. Easter's Missing Body may be read as a novel or used as a discovery learning tool comparing the story with the scriptures (scriptural references are given in footnotes).

This is an allegorical fantasy fiction novel dealing with the inner workings and counsel of the Holy Spirit. The story is told from the point of view of a thirteen-year-old boy finding his way along a psychological and spiritual journey through an ancient world filled with Cyclopes, dinosaurs, and pterodactyls.

These fictional dialogues between Uncle Jefferson in heaven and his nephew, Seth in hell give readers a glimpse of both the redeemed society and the recalcitrant community, depicted in contrast. Under exceptional arrangements, both audio and video are accessed for communication. Though emotional outburts sometimes erupt, Seth generally interacts cerebrally and with measured restraint. The dialogues depict grievance by the occupants of hell, their depravity and perversion, their distorted relationships and consequent loneliness, their combativeness and competitiveness, along with their irrationality, dishonesty, boredom, meaningless, guilt, and their futile quest for pleasure through selfish pride. Heave is seen in contrast. Rather than being couched in the context of arbitrary rewards and punishment from moral justice, the conversation rides heavily on the automatic consequence of moral character and moral choice. The work is not sensationalism, appealing to an occult mentality. The conversations are presented as a serious treatment of the nature of future life, with substantive content to contribute to the literature in the area.

In Pembroke, Wales, Simon Thomas (POV), studies piano with Mrs. Davies, known as the dragon. At a musical soirée in her den, Simon meets Michele. Later, at Youth Orchestra, Flint rivals Simon for Michele and takes advantage when Simon goes to university. Michele suffers an abortion. Simon wrestles with his feelings - affection or pity? Turmoil increases when he meets Sue, an American, who has a fiancé. Accidents jeopardize Simon’s Nashville dream. The elusive Michele reappears in Paris. They grow closer, touring France with an international choir, but lose contact afterward. His career flounders. Playing for guests on Blumenfeld ‘s superyacht in the Caribbean, Simon meets a talent scout from Nashville and is prey to the seductive Bella. He bumps into Michele in London, but is depressed when she moves to Charleston, US. On a brief visit he proposes. After a visit to Nashville, he makes a surprise trip to Charleston.

He had been in the ministry for 25 years and had come to the conclusion that he was done, he had nothing else to give and he simply did not care anymore. It wasn’t that he wasn’t having success, he was, but he was dead inside, and he knew it. He could not face going through the motions of running a large church anymore, he knew that all he was trying to do was put more people in the seats, and what on earth was the point of that?
Then, in a moment, it is revealed to him why he is in such desperate straits. He has left his first love and become a slave to the machine, a machine that he has participated in his entire adult life. He resolves to get back his spiritual sanity, and share his newfound perspective with his board, staff, church and most importantly, his wife, who has emotionally checked out of the marriage years earlier. His journey will be difficult and misunderstood, and he will face many temptations along the way, from both the present and the past. Will he be successful, or will he even know what success is as he seeks to find the one that he had lost?

After a mysterious and last-minute change of professor, an expected “easy A” course for college junior Tom Middleton turns into a real class with real work and takes him on a path he did not plan on taking. When Tom finds he is stuck with a term paper on ‘Jesus,’ a subject unfamiliar to him, Tom tries to piece together the odd things happening around him—starting with that sign at the football game that has John 3:16 written on it. ‘Jesus things’ seem to be everywhere, but what do they mean? And why does Jesus mean more to some people than others?

A professor, a blue-collar waitress, an over-eager student, Tom’s own employer, and a little girl in a homeless shelter all help Tom discover that he is working on much more than a term paper. Yet just as he is getting a feel for faith, tragedy interrupts and challenges everything he has learned so far. Like any Christian’s journey, Tom’s is filled with questions, hardships, and enlightenment.

Jemimah Barraclough, happily married with four children, lives in the small north-country town of Moorthwaite. Comfortably off, she sees her children‘s sibling rivalries as the only blemish in her domestic scene of peace and tranquillity. Jemimah is a leading light in the local church and ever willing to give a helping hand, be it practical or spiritual. However, she is regarded, in certain sceptical quarters, as a fair-weather Christian who would reject God if family and possessions were destroyed.

Meanwhile, Jemimah’s husband, Bob, deftly negotiates his way through the office politics associated with his job as a railways maintenance supervisor. Then Phil, a railway contractor, arrives on the scene burdened with marital and financial problems and a cynical disregard of religion. Working alongside Bob he is initially envious of the latter’s apparently happy, prosperous life and wary of his faith but soon develops a friendship. However, he appears to be the devil’s unwitting agent for the start of a series of disasters that befall the family. Throughout all their adversity, the Barracloughs are supported by the rector of Moorthwaite, the Rev. Arthur Metcalf, who takes the family into his huge, Victorian rectory.

Phil’s eventual feelings of guilt and sympathy cause him to visit Jemimah. He is won over by her continuing steadfast faith but she still has to face her greatest trial. Will the sceptics be finally proved right?  

The Clouds of Heaven is a fictional work of Christian apologetics.  At its centre is a debate between a priest and a psychiatrist about the question of God ranging through topics such as the Big Bang, Phineus Gage, Deep Blue, Genesis, jokes, Freud, Darwin, stars and suffering, eventually culminating in the person of Jesus Christ.  The debate is embedded within a wider story that is a blend of romance and character study, with a twist of thriller towards the end.  The ideas are delivered through fun, vibrant dialogue and vivid dreamlike allegories, all rooted in the story of three vivid characters.  Dr Peter Kreeft, who has written over forty successful books in apologetics, has reviewed the manuscript and wrote that “it will hook others as it hooked me.”  He commented on how “the interweaving of vision, flashback, dream and romance with the debating keeps us going, like the alternation of prose and poetry in Boethius’ Consolation.”  Atheists will leave this book with a newfound respect and understanding for faith in general and Christianity in particular.  Believers will see their beliefs stand up against the fiercest atheist critiques.  All will be entertained. 

Dirt poor, filthy, and illiterate, Josiah Mench lives beyond the margins of polite society. Even Liam, the closest thing Josiah has to a friend, can hardly stand to be near him for long. But friendship of any kind becomes a matter of survival when pandemic tears the world to pieces. Now, the survivors—children here and there, untouched by the plague but gripped by the terror of abandonment—must hang together or die. 

Catastropolis is a book of endings. When the older generations across the globe are lost, all of the once-dependable structures of society fail—utterly, and maybe forever. But there are beginnings too, visions of what life in a new future might hold for those willing to fight for it. 

And it is here in this new, primitive age that Josiah finds his voice, and a new people find a prophet to lead them out of the brute wilderness of survival and into true community. But it is also here that heaven and hell must contend for them first.

In this life-affirming story of unusual friendship, one heartbroken woman battles insomnia. Another cannot escape the coma that traps her in a place somewhere between dreams and reality. Though they have never met, through a miraculous crossing of consciousness, they find themselves together on a grassy hill surrounded by a mysterious fog. In this miraculous dream world, Amy and Gracie form an unusual friendship. Amy finds a safe place to share the pain, guilt and despair, caused by adultery of her husband of fifteen years. Gracie, afraid to let go of life with its various demands, finds a companion to walk alongside her through her most challenging battle yet—her own death.

Rejected by her own mother, Sam, a young woman sits outside a local dive bar atop a garbage bag filled with all her worldly possessions. When Miss Bea, her best friend’s mother, agrees to take her in and protect her, Sam believes there is still some good in the world. She will finally know what it feels to be accepted and loved; no one was going to judge her with Miss Bea around.  Her caretaker, however, has another mission in mind; she is determined to save Sam from her lesbian ways and a certain fiery torment in hell.

When a young couple moves into the house after Miss Bea’s death, their newborn son faces numerous health concerns, including a chronic and potentially fatal allergy to sunlight. Darius spends the greater portion of his young life confined to a basement playroom, while his disinterested parents lead their own lives, leaving Darius to create his own little world of adventure. Neither Derek, an up-and-coming author, nor Danielle, a housewife struggling to find peace with her husband’s newfound notoriety and lengthy and somewhat furtive absences, seem to bat an eyelash at Darius’ imaginative exploits with his friend, Sam, who lives in the basement.

The path to hope winds through a foreign landscape.

At least it does in THE GAIJIN AND THE SPRING, a 74,800-word literary novel. The plot revolves around two women who must find their way from guilt and anger to hope after the death of a close loved one.

Twenty-two year old Sarah Ellery has just moved to Japan to teach English at a private school. However, she finds that adjusting to life there isn’t what she expected. That is, until she meets two other foreigners and a curious, old man one night during cherry blossom season.

Back in Middle America, Sarah’s sister-in-law, Lily struggles with her husband, Zed’s melancholic behavior and her own desire to have a baby. When depression and circumstances result in Zed’s tragic demise, Sarah and Lily, half a world apart, are left to cope with the consequences. Can they conquer their guilt, doubt, and anger before it undoes them?

Having lost her one true love, the mature but stunning Isabella marries the starchy but well-respected pediatrician Langley Morrison, hoping he will care for her and her young daughter, Desiree.  

For years, things look perfect from the outside for the Morrison women, but cracks in the surface appear when Desiree, now a thirty-something, single but sassy professional, holds secrets, affecting her relationships with her parents and men. Armed with the dismal marriage prospect statistics for African American women, Desiree decides that she needs to help God out by embarking upon a dangerous online dating escapade. 

Her mother, Isabella, wonders if her faith can withstand her broken marriage, revelations from her daughter, and a devastating diagnosis.  Desiree questions if God really will give her the desires of her heart.

Through it all, the mother and daughter journey to find the strength to push past the pain of the past, into an uncertain future with an all-knowing God.

Matthew Kingsley, senior at evangelical McClure College, falls in love with Laura.  Their love is threatened by her promise to her father to return to Africa.  Will she learn that God's will is always good?  Does God want her to marry Matt?

Matt's philosophy professor, having lost his own faith, subtly works to destroy Matt's strong faith.  Matt's father, a successful pastor, struggles to protect him, infuriating the professor.  Matt's father also earns the bitter enmity of a wealthy realtor he confronted three years earlier for an adulterous affair.

A child Matt befriended is terribly beaten by his mother.  Matt's father disappears, apparently absconding with a fortune.  Matt's professor uses these to prove God's indifference, or worse, His non-existence.  Matt despairs of life.  Can an Irish cop's simple words begin Matt's journey back to faith?  Will the realtor's plot to destroy Matt's father's reputatioon succeed?  Can Matthew overcome obvious hurdles to get custody of the abused child?  Will Matthew's thirst for eternal truth be slaked by unshakeable evidence of God's omnipotent and loving care?  Or will he choose to die of thirst beside the swee flowing fountain of life?

A Bible unearthed near Truckee, California is believed a curse by archaeologist Scott Stanley as his life leads to abandonment and despair. The young Stanford professor teaches fieldwork while attempting to discover gold coins cached by the Donner Party. Scott believes notations in the Donner Bible will lead to the gold and to security. Born into strife and poverty, abandoned by his father, and raised by his single mother, Scott learned early to depend only on his strength. With Vicki, Scott is confident that the path he set will lead to success. When Vicki announces her pregnancy and Scott argues for abortion, a rift grows, exacerbated by Scott firing her friend Jim and replaced by the scripture-spouting Andrew. But, Jim discovers Scott’s flaws and turns Vicki and the university against him. With time running out, Scott and Andrew dig. Comforted by Andrew’s family, Scott retells the Donner tragedy while they reveal its spiritual truths. Resistant, Scott stumbles on until one last tragic turn. His strength gone, Scott will end his life at Emigrant Gap. But, through God’s intervention, Scott sees that he will never be forsaken. He reads the Bible and of the course that God has set for him.

Following a chilling death threat in Chicago, journalist Tomas Andersen has come to Geneva, Switzerland, where he writes an environmental column for the EU DailyNews. Life seems secure. Then one day, he meets a mysterious man called the Steward who gives him a letter from the “Owner.”

“This is the beginning of the Reckoning,” says the Steward.

From that moment, Tom’s column, “Global Reckoning,” takes on urgency as he exposes a series of environmental dangers and disasters. As weeks pass, his words become increasingly prophetic: global aquifer collapse, Brazilian rainforest depletion, Asian plague, and a killer Arctic storm. Tom forecasts them all, and his column and blog go viral.

At the EU DailyNews, section editor Mair Bryn joins Tom, and together they respond to ongoing letters from the Steward.

It is often dangerous. They encounter gunshots, nuclear radiation, physical assault, blog exploitation, and even a “lethal” Bulgarian shoe. Finally, the enemy tries seduction. Through it all, Tom and Mair find confidence, courage, and love.

The Steward’s Reckoning is an exciting story that also contrasts environmental worldviews: dark resignation, exploitation, hopeful humanism, and Tom and Mair’s Christian conviction that “this is my Father’s world.”

War Against the Soul speaks to any person who has disappointed themselves or others and suffers the anguish of regret. The book follows the struggle of a young, confident and successful businessman who foolishly succumbs to temptation and is unfaithful to his wife. The consequences slowly ripple out into every aspect of his and others lives. The idea of surrendering control to God is an idea that he resists, then wrestles with, but eventually grasps, and he learns that God indeed does love the sinner and wishes to restore the repentant heart.

Sam feels like just another high school student trying to fit in. As the new kid in town he deals with bullies, girls, and of course homework. Yet when he unexpectedly finds out that his parents are Christians in a United States that is dead set against religious faith, Sam is faced with the most difficult decision of his life: to accept Christ or not.  Quickly realizing the costs that come with being a Christian in a hostile world, Sam learns the value of faith, family, and forgiveness.  Will he bow the knee to a Savior he has never heard of before?  Will he buy into the world's view that his parents are religious fanatics?  Will he be willing to forgive those who seek to tear apart his family?  These are questions that Sam will only be able to answer when he meets the Lord in the tempest.

Kaki has a secret. By day, she’s a sophomore attending the local secondary school, but in the evening, she’s a commodity bought and sold at the hands of gang members. Controlled by threats of violence against her family, Kaki sees no chance of escape.

Josh and Molly Wolf are the perfect couple building a comfortable life in a Northern Virginia suburb. Both work at the local secondary school where Josh serves as Security Resource Officer and Molly teaches. Molly and Josh remain childless, and after numerous miscarriages they struggle with the reality that they may never be parents. Tyler and Lana Jones live next door to the Wolfs. Married just over ten years, Tyler struggles with a pornography addiction, and Lana, unfulfilled in her role as a mother, turns to closet drinking and dreams of escape.

When Josh and Molly uncover the initial ripples sex trafficking at the school, they must break the news to Tyler and Lana that their children are involved.  

As these families’ worlds are shaken and their faith is tested, they must choose between selfish desires and preserving the souls of the children in the community.

When Dolores slips a message about God to her great grandson on the five-dollar bill in his birthday card, Little Chet writes his own disdainful message and gives it back. The next morning at church, Dolores puts the bill in the offering plate and prays for God to use it to reach someone.
As Lincoln travels from wallet to purse to pocket, God answers her desperate prayer in a modern day speculation of what Jesus does with a widow's "two coins." A single mother's car is fixed; an elderly man learns to forgive himself; a thief must confront himself; a girl chooses life; a homeless man finds redemption; and finally, a great grandson makes an eternal choice.

Midway through college, Winston Brady decided to end his life. 

He never knew where his depression came from, but he had tried everything to fill the God-shaped hole in his heart, and decided he would die from a self-inflicted car accident, so no one would really know what he had done. 

But, when it came time to go through with it, Winston realized he would have to face God and explain his sins and why he did them. 

He tried to repent, but couldn’t, so he accepted God’s judgment is just before he sent his car careening off the road into whatever awaited for his soul. 

But then, Winston woke up in an empty forest, with his car nowhere to be seen. 

Wandering through the woods, wondering if he is still alive or is now a ghost, a shade finds Winston, a shade sent to be his guide and lead him through the realms of the Inferno. 

Winston must now speak with all the Americans he would not expect to find in Hell and see firsthand what God’s mercy has saved him from.  

But, is Winston strong enough to face the horrors of the Inferno? Are you? 

The life of Benjad of the Koto clan, inhabiting the isolated jungles of Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia, was suddenly changed when his mother and father were tragically murdered by a powerful evil Shaman, Shaka. An American soldier-turned-missionary, Clay Burris, and his wife, Alice, not only rescued the six-year-old, but gave him a new life. With kindness and love, Clay and Alice introduced young Benjad to modernity and also Christian truths, some that contradicted his people’s traditions. One particular tradition consisted of mandatory vengeance. The Kotos, like most of the other isolated clans, had no word for forgiveness. Avenging a wrong by killing a member of an enemy clan was expected. As Benjad grows into a young man, the murderer of his birth parents once more enters his life and plots to kill his new family along with Benjad. The story follows the boy’s coming of age in a new culture. Suspenseful twists and humorous misunderstandings abound leading up to the final scene of a life and death struggle with Shaka in which Benjad has to choose between revenge and his faith. It ends with Benjad’s realization that only God can grasp the river. 

 

They say admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. Admitting your ongoing porn addiction in a Sunday sermon was the first step to trouble for Pastor Bobby J. The Senior Pastor lauded him for his transparency and integrity. Maybe he should have admitted his addiction to his wife first?

While he’ll argue that he’s “not hurting anybody,” Bobby must deal with the consequences to those around him. His wife, Camille, gets trapped as she tries to understand her husband’s fascination. How can he effectively parent his teenaged son who has fallen into the same habits without seeming to be a hypocrite? Being the priest of your home is more than just preaching. “Reverend” is more than just a title.

Today, more and more athletes in football, basketball, baseball, golf, and other sports are acknowledging the Lord in the winner’s circle. The most recent have been Nick Foles and Carson Wentz, quarterbacks for the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles team.

But what if the circumstances were reversed? What if God invited a playground-caliber athlete to spread the Word…and then gave him remarkable athletic skills to do so? What would that be like? Welcome to Tap In, a novel of faith and basketball that could just be true.

Conner Ramsey is searching for relevance and praying for a door of clarity to open. Surprisingly, God himself visits Conner and directly answers his prayer. In a series of meetings with the Lord, Conner is given his mission: to spread the Word. He also learns that God has bestowed extraordinary basketball skills upon him to meet this challenge…an odd choice of talents given his limited basketball experience, his height, and his middle age. With reflection and the oftentimes humorous support of God, Conner goes for it, eventually playing in the NCAA and leading his team to qualification in the NCAA Basketball Tournament, aka March Madness.

Through exciting basketball scenes, Conner learns his purpose; understands how his newfound basketball skills can be utilized for this objective; develops a circle of friends and supporters; recognizes that there are those who oppose his mission; and develops himself as both a man and a Christian.

Bart Sheldon, a conservative Baptist pastor in the small town of Joppa, Georgia, is awakened with the news of a brutal attack on his son, David, and his friend, Daniel Summers. In the aftermath, Bart and his wife, Sally, are stunned to learn that David is gay. As rumors spread, Bart struggles to hide his family crisis and work through his own disappointment and fear.

In the weeks that follow, Bart is forced to reconsider his long-held views about homosexuality, the Bible, and the meaning of grace. One sermon ignites the powder keg, and the consequences are swift and severe. Bart faces forced termination, the struggle to support his family, and the outrage of an unforgiving, sometimes violent opposition.

Finding work in a hardware store, Bart begins to build a new life while pondering what an authentic, inclusive church might look like. Despite opposition, a new ministry center is launched in an abandoned factor building.

Bart emerges from his battles with a fresh perspective and renewed hope, only to face his cruelest test of all, his own life cut short. Through it all, Bart opens his life to grace, for himself, for those he loves, and those he learns to love.

A preacher’s wife, a vagabond, and a street thug find themselves in the crosshairs of an arrogant businessman bent on eliminating his past to satisfy his lofty political ambitions.

Patty Humphrey isn’t sure God invested any real talent in her. Childless and heartbroken, she passes the days as secretary at the church where her husband serves as the associate pastor, while haunted by the notion she’s running out of time to discover God’s purpose for her life. That’s when she meets Artie, a homeless visitor who wanders into church on a Sunday morning. The unlikely pair kindle a unique friendship as Artie leads Patty through multiple examples of what it means to listen to God and serve others even in the most unexpected locations.

But why would their efforts capture the attention of 2Dub, a resourceful gang-banger, and can he help them succeed before a sinister plan concludes? Patty never dreamed her ho-hum life could find purpose in the midst of a spine-tingling adventure only God could author.

Awakened by Grace is a character-driven story that addresses self-condemnation and traumatic grief. Though the plot contains difficult subject matter, it is a heart-warming story filled with laughter and tears, set in New Hampshire during the Christmas season.

After the tragic death of his wife, Professor Franklin Franklyn blames himself. Filled with anguish, he walks away from his family and removes himself from all social interactions, which augments his suffering. But soon after the second anniversary of his wife's death, his self-imposed reclusive lifestyle is interrupted by an unplanned visit from his eight-year-old granddaughter, Maggie.

While they journey together through the Christmas season, decorating, shopping, and enjoying meals, Franklin reestablishes his special bond with his little princess. God restores love and purpose back into his life as he experiences the importance of reuniting his once tight-knit family. Maggie's unwavering faith and Christ-like love lead him toward the arms of his Savior. By the end of their journey together, Franklin discovers how to conquer his worst fear: how to live and move on without his wife.

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Beautiful Emily has messed up her life and can’t find a way out. Drugs or alcohol, love or . . .  she doesn’t mind what’s coming her way, as long as it pacifies the unruly monster inside. 

On the morning of a farcical prison wedding to junkie boyfriend Joaquin, she reads out a Bible verse as part of the ceremony and sees blood everywhere. Unaware that God is calling her, she decides to make an effort to curb her addiction.

During a film show at a music club, she and her friend Marianne meet Adam, the leader of a Buddhist new age hippie commune. Three months later the two decide to travel eight hundred miles and join the group in Switzerland . . . only to find that it was not what they were looking for.

They separate and meet later--after Emily has split from Joaquin, and Marianne has found the world-famous Christian church of Dr. Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri. The news that the elders have invited them to study the Bible freely is an offer Emily cannot refuse . . . even if she wanted to.