Lori M. Jones’s Crossmatch follows Claire Chamberlain, a forty-three-year-old mother of twins whose cycling accident reveals that she was born with one kidney and it is failing from polycystic kidney disease. Dialysis is coming, and Claire’s O-positive blood type makes finding a living donor difficult....

Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

Rooted in Christ's Identity is a short novella by Sallie Dawkins. All the little sunflower seed has ever known is the Gardener's workbench. It is fond of all the neatly placed pots and plants. The little seed sees that the Gardener likes to tuck a...

In Michael O’Neill’s Lilli’s Question, an idealistic seminarian encounters a young girl, Lilli Geisler, on a bus while backpacking through Europe. Their brief connection ends in Madrid, where Lilli asks the question that would haunt him throughout his life: “Why be a priest?” Jim McGann’s...

L.R. Merriman’s The Truth Dancer centers on Elenden deArthis, the isolated third son of a Northern noble family whose ability to perform truth dancing draws attention from hidden spiritual groups, Imperial authorities, and ancient enemies connected to the old elemental schools. After surviving an assassination...

Dead Man’s Gospel by Reno Bachman is a riveting psychological Western that introduces us to Timothy Gospel, a man scarred by violence since his childhood and who then, as an adult, inflicted it. Timothy is on the run, seeking sanctuary in the hills and forests...

Faithful Journeys: Sisterhood, Love, and Restoration by J. Ryenae is the story of four women, Jaquell, Nikki, Kyla, and Courtni, who shared an unbreakable bond of sisterhood in high school, a bond that is tested by the challenges of adulthood. Now they are adults, and...

In Joshua Becker’s Soul Mission, Ephraim teaches Spanish in Milwaukee while living with mental health issues that detach him from his wife Rachel, their young son Ari, and the ordinary rhythm of daily life. After horrifying visions connected to the Holocaust death camps begin pulling...

What if the major world religions didn't exist today? What if Adam and Eve had a deep discussion about the nature of God, ethics, morality, and religion? That is exactly what happens in Aaron Wilkosz's The Modern Universal Faith. Adam and Eve have advanced degrees,...

‘It’s a matter of degree, that’s all. We all prostitute ourselves when it suits us; we only differ in how far we’re prepared to go.’ Two stories for the price of one await readers in The Seven Stars, a novel by Simon Leighton-Porter. And in...