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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.

Welcome to Charleston, South Carolina, where the local pastor saved a very special litter of Chihuahuas and put them to work as a tiny therapy dogs. Each puppy helps to create a miracle in the lives of the women who foster them, bringing healing, redemption, and of course, love.

Abigail Sutton's husband didn't survive the war, leaving her pregnant, alone, and questioning God's plan. To pick up the pieces of her broken life, she must now return to her childhood home in Charleston in this tender and unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Storm. When a rare snowstorm blankets the city on Christmas eve, a Chihuahua takes shelter in the church's nativity display to give birth to her litter. Abigail's father, the pastor of the local church, rescues the shivering pups and entrusts them to his daughters care.

Twenty-year-old Charley Austin travels a torn and troubled world as the star drummer and lyricist for the famous Christian rock band, DelivRus. He has musical gifts and a clear mission from God. And that mission makes him a big problem for Lucky Zebul. Zebul implements a sinister and depraved plan to crush the vulnerable rock star and put an end to the bands Godly influence in the world.

Janae Simmons left the small town of Kedgewick, Virginia, ten years ago to pursue her legal career and never looked back—until a professional mistake leads her to her grandmother's historic carriage house and to the town where her past threatens to find her. The streets echo with her grandfather's sterling reputation, one that conflicts with fresh questions that claw at Janae, launching her on a reluctant journey to unearth his secrets. When her new job at a local law firm doesn't live up to expectations, she wonders if coming home was the right decision.

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.

Phoebe Clyborne has always been the perfect child, and she'd certainly never been in jail. So, after being released from her first night in the lock up, the new cowboy in town is bound to get the wrong impression about the girl who has been content on her family's ranch, assuming the Lord just wants her to take care of her family and never have one of her own when she runs smack into him, knocking them both down. It wouldn't have been so bad, but later that day, Phoebe realizes he's the new foreman at their ranch.

A Christian family struggles to survive a dystopian world brought about by an EMP attack on the nation’s power grid. With America on her knees and lawlessness and mob violence sweeping the land, they flee to find refuge among a remnant of believers. There they find out that the societal breakdown is ushering in a post apocalyptic new world order led by a doomsday Antichrist of Middle Eastern origin. Suspense and faith collide in this End Times fiction where survival skills merge with radical trust in God’s provision.

While fishing in an Irish salmon stream one rainy morning, Father Declan de Loughry ponders the recent deathbed confession of his parishioner Kevin Dennehy. It seems Dennehy and his wife, Enda, had been quietly living a lie for fifty years. Yet the gravity of their deception doesn’t become clear to the good father until Enda shares the full tale of her suffering, finally confiding “the all of it.”

Duke Rawlings is a redemptive Contemporary Christian fiction novel. It follows former Army Ranger Duke Rawlings who returns home from Afghanistan struggling with PTSD. When a merciless Mexican cartel endangers his family, Duke goes undercover to stop them, upending his life. This emotional tale explores the toll of secrecy and trauma as Duke fights to take down the cartel while desperately trying to protect his steadfast wife Sara and their young children.

Harmony King disappeared from Charleston as soon as she aged out of the foster system. Ten years later, she returns with just as many secrets as she had back then. As her past threatens to overwhelm her, she seeks mercy at the local church. There, the pastor finds her praying like her life depends on it and decides to entrust one of his tiny therapy dogs to her care. Will this special Chihuahua’s love be enough to help Harmony discover her own worth, and can it protect her when the dark past she tried so desperately to leave behind finally catches up to her?

Carolina Brown couldn’t be more different than her mama if she tried. Growing up, she worked hard to set herself apart, eager to leave town and accomplish big things in the wide world. But when her mother suffers a near-fatal accident, God calls Carolina back to Charleston to help her adapt to life in a wheelchair and to help make ends meet by temporarily filling in at the local diner. It’s there she meets the whimsical pastor Adam and his team of tiny therapy dogs.

What is a gift worth? Does it depend on the gift itself or on what the gift means to the person receiving it? An uplifting short story about an unwanted gifts' impact in the lives of the ones that encounter the gift. These lives experienced life-altering circumstances that thrust them into the depths of despair, where they remained. The gift reveals a new hope and so, the choice is theirs; to stay where they are, or to receive the gifts' inspiration to finally live.

Once one of Chicago’s significant financial advisors, Jade lost her credibility when her fiancé (and coworker) stole millions of dollars from their clients in a Ponzi scheme. Now she’s agreed to help one of them—an aging 1960s Hollywood starlet named Berenice “Benny” Alderidge—seek financial restoration. Jade sets off along Route 66 with Benny and her handsome adult foster son, Bridger, who is filming a documentary retracing the 1956 trip that started the love story between Benny and her recently deceased husband, Paul.

Rejection. Isolation. Polarization. Violence. Following the death of church founder and community leader Jeremiah Silas, New Living Church faces a reckoning as skeletons begin to fall out of their closet. At the heart of the issue are four individuals whose lives unexpectedly collide at the scene of a crime tied to the church. A liberals arts professor, a single black woman, a gay young man, and a conservative church deacon must learn to offer each other grace or face devastating results with violent consequences for the whole town.

Lucas Clyborne has had his eye on Sweet Water's librarian, Ryland Solomon, for almost a year. He's even started going to the library and checking out books. Who knew Extreme Ironing was a thing? So, maybe he had a little trouble concentrating on looking for suitable books since his attention seemed to get fixed on the cute librarian who didn't seem to know he was alive. Ryland didn't know why Lucas all the sudden had a fascination with obscure books like The Iliad and Favorite Ties of Latin American Presidents, but she is sure he's up to no good.

Wisconsin, present day. Audra March’s adult life is haunted by a teenage misstep. Taking an assumed name and enjoying simple things, the thirty-something comes upon a vintage recipe box while thrift shopping and hunts down the owner’s daughter. So when a longtime adversary threatens her with blackmail, she jumps at the invitation to escape to the dead lady’s estate and avoid an old enemy.

Artist Britt Branch has a successful online channel where she teaches a variety of art lessons. Obsessed with the 1970s, she has a style all her own. But she also has a huge problem--severe social anxiety. She lives with her mom, and while she pays her own bills, she wonders if she'll ever have the courage to move out and move on. When her best friend announces she's getting married, Britt decides it's time to make a change.

Juniper's been through a messing breakup, and she's drowning her sorrows in clay, glaze, and crafting. She and her best friend, Penni, have hit the streets of Wimber for a craft fair. But the crazy Texas weather might have other plans for their time, along with a handsome artist just a few tents down the lane.

The Bug Man is getting married on Saturday. . . if his fiancée can find him. Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak lives in a world of maggots and blow flies and decomposing bodies. No wonder he's still single. But Nick has finally found a woman as strange as he is—dog trainer Alena Savard, a woman who is odd, reclusive, and can seemingly talk to animals. It was a match made in heaven. Nick and Alena are scheduled to be married on Saturday—but there's one small problem. Nick has disappeared.