Contemporary Christian Fiction

Parker Wilson has nothing to worry about beyond his marketing job and donating bone marrow to his nephew, who is fighting leukemia. Then he meets Marcus, a little boy dying of a brain tumor who spends most days alone in a hospital room. Because of this child's life and then death, Parker is forced to step outside his suburban comfort zone and confront the struggles, not only of one family, but of an entire community.

Then Parker and four other people are each given $10,000 with the stipulation it is invested in their community and, in a year, report what they did with it. The needs in the community far outpace this gift, and Parker is stretched to the limit of his ability to make the money go as far as possible.

Beatrice feels insignificant and useless since her husband died, until she's invited to invest in a new restaurant—and the lives of the young people who work there. Collin loves his cushy lawyer job but decides to invest his money in the Lincoln Square Community Center, even when it means getting his hands dirty to make the money go as far as it can. Ed feels as though life has handed him some rotten deals. When his $10,000 practically lands in his lap, he thinks his luck has turned—until he loses it all and must decide whether he's willing to put forth the effort to change.

How will each of these people use the talents God has given them to be an influence for good in their struggling community?

Carly and her mom have never gotten along. Now, thirty-six, jobless, and living back at home, Carly feels like she will never get out from under her mom’s thumb. When her elderly grandma’s health takes a turn for the worst, the family asks Carly to help. Grandma’s gentle love brings Carly out of her depression. She makes friends, sets goals, and dares to hope her dreams could come true — including her hopes for marriage and a family. Then one cruel act by her mom threatens to destroy all the progress she has made.

Can Carly fight her way through loneliness and depression to find love and hope?

Revisit the characters introduced in Talents in this second book of the Lincoln Square series!

Continue the story that began in Door of Hope (Book 2 of the Lincoln Square Series)

Richard knew he’d met the future Mrs. Warren the moment he laid eyes on Susan Terrell the first day of 10th grade. They marry straight out of college, dreaming of their ‘happily ever after.’

When Richard’s company lands a huge contract, Susan feels neglected—and runs right into the arms of the man who organized the contract, Mark Tripton. Now Richard must choose: stay with Susan and have the specter of her unfaithfulness hanging over them or leave and abandon the only woman he’s ever loved.

Will Susan ever leave Mark and fully invest in her marriage? Will Richard be able to show his wife the love of Christ in spite of her unfaithfulness?

Will Richard and Susan ever find their way back to ‘happily ever after’?

Nothing exciting ever happens in Palmer. Except that one time the biker gang came to town, and they turned out to be a bunch of middle aged doctors and lawyers reliving their glory days. But Aunt Lorinda insists the man they saw beside the interstate is an escaped convict. It doesn’t help that someone really did escape from the penitentiary up the road.

When a handsome stranger walks into town hours later, Sheriff Callen Steiner has a choice: believe the old woman who owns the diner, or believe the well-dressed stranger whose luxury car was stolen.

Hayley Beasley can’t stand the way the newcomer, Brice, mocks their small town, so she challenges him to give Palmer a chance and let her show him around. Both Aunt Lorinda and Callen have a problem with all the time Hayley is spending with Brice — Aunt Lorinda because she’s sure he’s the escaped convict, and Callen because he’d rather be the one getting all Hayley’s attention.

Who will Hayley choose: Brice, the rich, handsome newcomer, or Callen, the man she’s known her whole life? Will Callen catch the convict and prove to Aunt Lorinda once and for all that Brice isn’t the escaped inmate?

Or is he…?