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Inspired by a true story from the author's family, this heartwarming tale of how one small orphan girl brings faith, hope and love into the lives of a lonely farm couple in Depression-era Kansas is a reminder that God's best gifts come in the most unexpected ways. When young reporter Michelle Madison goes to Gracerville to interview the town's oldest resident, Esther Cooke, on Esther's one hundredth birthday, Michelle has no idea that her own life is about to change forever.An ordinary woman of remarkable faith, Esther tells Michelle the story of how a chronically-ill orphan in Depression-...

“If you died tonight, where would you spend eternity?” Like the ghosts from Dickens’ Christmas Carol, this question haunts Tatiana Richards on Christmas Eve. With the help of Esther Cook’s Christmas Cake, Tatiana’s daughter Michelle will try to explain to her mother the real message of Christmas—eternal life through a relationship with Jesus. “After someone has eaten the Christmas Cake one time, they always want more. Whenever I attend anything where everyone brings food, whoever is in charge says, ‘bring that apple cake.’ Whenever people experience Jesus Christ, they ...

A HORSE CALLED LIGHTNING "There are mysterious things happening in the night...." During a chance summer storm, ten-year-old Joy and three-year-old Andy are sure their neighbor's horse has been killed after they see him struck by lightning. But the horse isn't dead--he just has a secret! Months later, on the darkest evening of the year, Joy and Lightning will brave a blizzard to save Joy's daddy when his truck is stuck in a snowdrift, and Joy and Andy will come to understand the mystery of the horse they call Lightning. This story of God’s provision for His children will delight children ...

A Pig Isle Adventure: The Pigmeister's best friend needs help. Rance Hogg is one of the best friends a farm animal can have. But hard times are causing him to lose the family farm for taxes! Now, with Joy McAloon's help, the Pigmeister will get back into training to help his friend with a Pay-Per-View sporting event to raise the tax money and save the farm. Meanwhile, two-year-old Andy will get to be the Mayor of Pig Isle for an entire week. Andy is overjoyed at the chance to be in charge, and he starts his administration by giving free candy and ice cream to all the children. But during ...

Sometimes, just when you least expect it, life hands you a do-over... Becca George, Emma Thomas, Matthew Duncan, Lady Vivian Chesterfield and her son Lord Robert Chesterfield have only one thing in common: each has been wounded, almost beyond repair, by those whom they love and trust the most. You are invited to share this journey of five lives transformed by the power of Grace. Each book in the Kinsman series is a stand-alone read that can be enjoyed individually or as part of the entire collection.

Chief Security Czar Christian Quinton’s disappearance has led to a nationwide manhunt. With her own life at stake, his cunning wife Sage manipulates Mandrake and repositions herself as the most powerful woman in New America. The success of her scheme, however, depends on Quinton staying gone and Petra Bordeaux never being found. For Petra and the Ns, life appears to be improving as they continue to live and work underground in North Texas, unaware that Mandrake now knows that Petra is still alive. As the Ns and those they have rescued slip into everyday routines and begin to enjoy the ...

Months after the collapse of New America, Petra and Rahm have settled into the routine, boring life they’ve always dreamed of. But when Rahm’s cousins, Jarrod and Joshua Sinclair, enlist their help to stop the Kairos family, they discover a new global threat even more dangerous than Mandrake’s government. Now with the Sinclairs’ aid and assistance from veteran detective Fred Kowalski, Petra and Rahm must travel to Europe to battle a Force more sinister than anything they have ever experienced.

Someone is murdering the world’s most beautiful women—over and over... When Jarrod and Joshua Sinclair are called in to consult with the FBI about the Hollywood Starlet murders, they immediately suspect their old nemesis, Josef Helmick, of creating clones for a visiting Saudi prince. Wasting no time, they hire retired detective Fred Kowalski to uncover Josef’s base of operations and build a case against him. Soon Fred discovers that Helmick is harboring a secret much darker than human trafficking. Now he and the Sinclairs must stop Helmick before Josef resurrects an ancient, ...

When the Ns discover that their hiding place at Prayer Mountain has been compromised, Seamus tells the team that it's time for them to go underground. With their new assignments, Petra, Rahm, River, Ami and Lew no longer cower in the shadows. Instead, they now oppose Mandrake's government while living and working in plain sight.

In this compelling sequel to The Planner, Homeland Security is using the National Defense Authorization Act to incarcerate tens of thousands of Americans in secret government prisons where they are never heard from again. Michael Linton and Jeff Conners call attention to these abuses by setting up The Wall, a website which publishes the names of all those who have vanished. Soon, federal agents dub The Wall the greatest act of terrorism in U.S. history and arrest Michael and Jeff as domestic terrorists. With her husband and brother-in-law now facing indefinite detention without trial, ...

When Carol Pensworth accepts her invitation to begin a new life, her first assignment is to redeem victims of human trafficking. But Carol quickly learns that with Kinsman, one invitation always leads to another, and then another, and then another.... You are invited...to experience the hope of redemption and the power of second chances in a holiday story that celebrates the value of every life. Each book in the Kinsman series is a stand-alone read that can be enjoyed individually or as part of the entire collection.

Blake and Sara Morgan’s rebellious daughter Jessica is coming home after two and a half years at a women’s correctional facility where she has learned only one thing—she doesn’t want to go back. With help from court-appointed counselor Mary Alice Sullivan, Jessica must learn to accept the consequences of her actions before she permanently destroys her future. As she struggles to guide Jessica, Mary Alice must also help her own husband David, who is grappling with the loss of his company and the realities of having to start over after more than thirty years as his own boss. With the ...

Is it possible to be a good person and yet still be connected to great evil? On the day that his twin sons Jarrod and Joshua are born, Alexander Sinclair, an ambitious botanist, travels to a beef-cloning facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico to meet its visionary, enigmatic aging founder, Karl Helmick. Over the next twenty-one years, Alexander and Karl collaborate on incredible scientific breakthroughs which make both men wealthy beyond their wildest dreams as Karl becomes friend, mentor and father-figure to Alexander while Karl's cruel, sadistic son, Josef, clashes repeatedly with Jarrod and ...

Before Kevin and Jenna, before Jacob and Joe, before Kinsman...there was Toby O’Toole MacIntyre, a little boy with big ambitions. Though in reality he is the son of immigrant domestics in service to a wealthy Waco landowner, Toby lives in his fantasies as a descendant of Irish kings and daydreams of a future befitting his birthright. One day as a teenager, Toby has a conversation with a cotton farmer that changes his perspective about life and gradually the boy who has wanted more than anything to be nobility learns a life-changing truth—it is far greater to serve than to be served. ...

Rumors of a group of Patriots that has infiltrated the highest levels of Mandrake's corrupt government have been a source of hope for millions of citizens trapped in the nightmare of New America. Yet, years of steadily worsening conditions and the loss of the final remnants of freedom have convinced even Petra Bordeaux that the stories are merely urban legends contrived by a people desperate to be free. When Petra finally determines that the only way she can restore her country is to sacrifice herself by praying on her knees in front of the New America building, she comes face to face with ...

Every person has a unique and special gift. Wyatt Crenshaw’s gift is his brilliant mind. Accepted into medical school, Wyatt was the most brilliant student in his class before his personal demons cost him his opportunities and left him working at a job he hates for his father-in-law who despises him. A decade later, when Wyatt is hit head-on by a car going the wrong way on the interstate, he is shocked to awaken under the care of Dr. Matthew Duncan, a classmate from medical school. Embarrassed, he denies being “that guy”—the student with the brilliant mind who disappeared so many ...

From their prison cell in the heart of Turkey, three American Christian pastors sentenced to a life of hard labor for preaching the gospel have only one prayer, "Help Us!". When Clint responds to their plight with a dramatic rescue, Andrew, John Mark, and Peter are transported from certain death in a Turkish labor camp and given an invitation to a new life in Dallas, Texas. Young, beautiful Sona Samour is not looking for a new life. As an Armenian Christian living in Istanbul, she has accepted discrimination, ostracism and grief as part of her family's sad legacy to her. But when Sona meets...

My name is Petra Bordeaux.... Over the past year, the National Council has arrested thousands of law-abiding citizens and charged them with corrupting the public morals. We are their children and now they are hunting us. They have taken our families, our homes, and our possessions. They call us Streeties because we are forced to live in alleys, under bridges and in the open spaces. We are hungry and sick and tired, but we are not alone. We have each other, and we have the truth. We will never surrender. We are N.

James is sitting at a Ft. Worth intersection waiting for the light to change when he hears the roar of a truck speeding toward him. Before he can react, his motorcycle is crushed, and he is thrown fifty feet onto the median. At that precise moment in Dallas, Elizabeth’s sleep is interrupted by a vivid dream in which she witnesses James’ accident. As she watches him begin to pass from life to death, she extends her hand and cries, “Don’t die if you don’t know Jesus!” Although neither James nor Elizabeth is aware of the other's existence, they begin a ten-year odyssey in which ...

After River's parents are executed, Petra and the Ns take up refuge on Prayer Mountain--in the shadow of the cross. But Petra's nemesis, Cardin Ritter, remains determined to find her and turn her over to Mandrake for interrogation. Meanwhile, Quinton becomes increasingly obsessed with giving Bella a new identity to save her life. As he becomes more desperate, he realizes that only one person can help him protect Bella--but to reach out to her will endanger his own life, his world and everything he values.