What do you do when the people who were supposed to show you God were the ones who hurt you most? That's the question that beats at the heart of Heather Tekavec's debut historical fiction novel, Good Road to Follow, and that hearbeat is the reason readers will...

On the surface, Blue Jean Bayou by Janis Jakes is a slow-burn contemporary romance, but it doesn't take long to notice the richness behind the genre. It's a story about the wounds we carry from early loss, the identities we build to survive them, and the grace that...

Some stories arrive dressed as mysteries but turn out to be something far richer, like meditations on grace, community, and the stubborn persistence of hope in the face of old wounds. Killing Spring by Anita Klumpers is that kind of story, but then, that's just the...