Hey, Friend–Do you know what it’s like give to 100 percent and still feel like it’s not–and you’re not–enough for anybody? To be caught between caring for an aging parent and raising young children? I lived in that place for four years. Ivy Schneider lives in this place, too, and she isn’t at all...
Always the Wedding Coordinator, Never the Bride.Fifteen years after the mysterious disappearance of Ted, her childhood sweetheart, gutsy and daring Lillie Bauer–bungee-jumper, book addict, and delightfully offbeat coordinator of “extreme” high-concept weddings–is ready to find love again. Yet as ...
In Lisa Samson's moving novel, the wife of a popular televangelist discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy her marriage and her husband's ministry.
I suppose you’ve figured that out by now. The estranged father, the tattoos. The bigger secret is that I was once Drew Parrish. But no longer. You see, my mother prayed. Every morning of my life my mother prayed for me. She continues to do so there on her slice of cliff in Slade, Kentucky, and I ...
The two blue lines might as well have been made of neon tubing, lit up and fl ashing, “Pregnant! Pregnant!” She threw it into the sink with a frustrated groan and kicked the trash can because, unlike Pieter, the sugar bucket was there. Why did the truth, showing itself in plain light, always feel...
I missed the time to plant those bulbs and now I’m going to have to wait until spring. So I’ll get back to what happened after receiving the file that day at the seminary. I decided to head down to The Block, where Brother Joe worked at the mission. At first I couldn’t bring myself to get out of ...
