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The Lord gives her a list of unknown individuals urgently needing deliverance. The intercessors and prayer warriors are charged with leading them to Christ. Once every soul is accounted for, Jesus will come to redeem His saints, and judgment will begin on the earth.

Every family has its secrets. Josephina “Joey” Harris wouldn’t mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she takes the opportunity to escape the scrutiny of her small town to oversee its restoration.

Ever since Fern Espinoza and Lily Graden met as teenagers volunteering at a conference center in Costa Rica twenty years ago, they have shared a close friendship, even though they live in different states. They can hardly believe it when their teen dream of traveling to Africa together becomes a reality. It’s the trip of a lifetime—but life sure isn’t what they thought it would be back when they were young.

Single mother and baker Eden Lambert arrives in quaint Village Green looking for a home for herself and her eighteen-month-old son, Jake. Her warm welcome by her elderly hostess, Mary Jo Piermont, is offset by the cold disdain of Mary Jo's self-appointed protector, Joe Wolfe. At first, the long-legged blonde and her kid look like trouble to Joe. Mary Jo saved the builder's life years ago, and he will do no less for the woman he considers a surrogate mother. But as he keeps an eye on the unwanted guests, Joe's suspicions soon become replaced by admiration and respect.

A wedding on an enchanted island of magic. A guest list of gods, immortals, shifters, dragons, and druids. And a sentient city waking after centuries . . . What could go wrong? When Fiona's magnet for mayhem weighs in on her special day, there's no escaping the fallout . . . or the island. With Dark invaders, realm refugees, a feral vampire, and the mystery of the Light Weavers' disappearance to solve, Fi and her friends are fighting on multiple fronts. Thank the goddess there's cake.

Life Before Me, set during the Vietnam era, is a layered narrative of redemption, love, and forgiveness told in the alternating voices of ambitious Air Force fighter pilot Theodore Bailey and the introspective Abigail Sullivan, the love of his life. With tenderness and sincerity, I artfully capture the human longing for purpose and meaning.

With her life crumbling and mental stability reeling, Elle Anders is desperate to discover if her fragmented faith is real so much so, that she commits to serving at a crisis pregnancy home. But between a rigid boss, a saccharine volunteer, and a house full of women with issues far more reaching than she had imagined, Elle must decide what she really believes. Will she have the courage to face her deepest pain?

Katrina left her old life to embrace a new role as the pastor's wife at a small country church. She expected a warm welcome and warm friendships. The last thing she imagined was a congregation that was so petty and judgmental. As Katrina grapples with the challenges of small-town life and her changing relationship with her new husband, she's grieving what she had to leave behind. Everything that identified her as Katrina is gone: her music, the symphony, and the city life that made her feel alive.

“I don’t love God.” Little did Gen-Z seminarian Katie Westcott know that when she made that confession to English professor Martin Bonham one fine summer day it would throw the quiet campus of Cupperton University into an uproar. Nothing would be the same again. Together, this unlikely pair of oddballs poses this question: What if students could major in “loving God”—not religion or theology, but in the daily challenge of loving the Creator with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength?

Child Eyes takes an in-depth look at the innocence of life destroyed by violence and the need for mending through the restoring hands of God. It includes chilling details about the reality of the homeless experience. One significant moment changed the course of history for two women with similar beginnings.

Jade Chen pours herself into her work. As co-creator of an innovative water redistribution project, she's passionate about the massive tunnel system snaking across the country. But everything changes when she finds a corpse in the tunnels and someone tries to kill her. Lincoln's enemies are playing for keeps and their latest attack leaves Lincoln more vulnerable than ever. In spite of this, Lincoln orders Dalton to investigate the threat against Jade. Dalton grudgingly obeys orders, all the while vowing to solve Jade's case quickly so he can protect Lincoln from any further harm.

In America, the Devil had been winning because crimes like those studied by the priest, resulting in criminal trials, were being lost by the prosecution. The reasons for the losses varied from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Once Brooklyn became ground zero for the Evil One, a local prosecutor with the skill, personality, strength and tenacity to take on Satan, to withstand his counter attacks and beat him, was recruited. Michael Gioca, Chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, was handpicked by a secret government agency to be that warrior.

I never questioned my decision to marry Faith the day she turned eighteen. She needed to get out of her situation at home and, at nineteen, I already knew everything about everything, so in my mind it made perfect sense. We’d been pals for years. I loved her. She had no idea. But she was desperate for somebody to rescue her, and a marriage of convenience with me was a better—safer—choice than anything else she could find.

Paul Bailey is a daytime TV actor in Hollywood. His faith has been on hold for a few years as he focuses on his career. And he hasn’t been following all the rules church people generally expect. He’s still reeling from his father leaving when he was a kid, his brother overdosing and his sister succumbing to a mysterious illness. His faith was always too fragile to help him fully recover from any of that. Paul goes home to comfort his mother after his sister’s death. His mom is all he has left. To please her, he takes the starring role in her church’s annual passion play. 

Leroy Jenkins, a former Heroin and Crack dealer and newly converted Christian, has for years shielded his family from his former life. He thought that keeping his tumultuous past a secret would protect his family from repeating his mistakes. He finds out that keeping secrets sometimes causes more harm than good, especially since he watched helplessly as his son descended into the drug life and is now clinging to life. Leroy comes face-to-face with the realization that hiding your past usually causes your loved ones to repeat it.

Mother dead, Dad broke, best friend selling drugs, and a shaken faith in God. What happens when a boy raised in the church is faced with these circumstances? Enter David Jenkins, raised in the church by his mother, but drawn to the streets by his circumstances. After the death of his mother, David finds himself wrapped up in the drug game with his best friend Los. David quickly rises in the business and is faced with the love of straight and narrow Valencia and the jealousy of Los.

Gracie Howard, at eleven, tragically lost her parents, sister, and her hand. Older now, and on the cusp of winning a national ice cream contest, she still fights nightmares. Never has she known someone who truly understands her heartache—until she meets Kage. Tossed out the doors of a Greyhound bus in front of her grandfather's ice cream shop, Kage, nineteen and homeless, is working his way to Louisville to meet his sister for the first time. Outsiders aren't welcome in the tiny Kentucky town of Ridgewood, nor is Kage's interest in Gracie.

Are you lost? Are you hopeless? Trying to find a reason to breathe? This is a story about a girl named Krystal, who struggles with suicide, depression, and finding hope in life. If you are looking for hope then keep reading, you might find something amazing inside...

He isn’t prepared for the situation . . .Mylas always thought the owner of the McKinney Law Firm, where he’s employed, would outlive him, so when the owner suffers a fatal heart attack, Mylas suddenly faces an uncertain future, his hope of a partnership shattered. He isn’t prepared for the consequences . . .When Mylas learns he’s mentioned in the will, he expects to receive a small token of appreciation for his years of service to the firm, but then, when everyone assembles to hear the reading of the will, things take a bizarre turn with unexpected consequences.

The only thing twenty-six-year-old Dayton August loves more than being C.E.O. of the software company he co-founded right out of college, is enjoying the fruits of his labor. From his limited edition Mustang, tailored suits, luxury watches, top-shelf dining, and weekend getaways with beautiful girls, to his luxury condo on the north side of Chicago, he's living the life he'd always wanted.