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“I’m a P.K., preacher’s kid. I grew up afraid of my own allowance.” Self-described Cassia Carr therefore views an unexpected $20 million not as a blessing, but as a cross to bear. It’s hard enough to gauge romantic feelings without the complication of a humongous windfall. Her globe-trotting neighbor, Adam Cavanaugh, seems interested, but in Cassia or her fortune?

Taking matters into his own paws, Bentley, a precocious mutt who is terrified of kittens, interferes in the love life of his owner, Norah Kent, by unleashing a hilarious matchmaking scheme to help her find Mr. Right.

Accepting an opportunity to reprise her role on a popular soap opera, Christian actress Tabby Brockman finds herself encountering the factors that prompted her initial separation from the job, forcing her to draw on her faith for guidance.

Featuring struggling fashion designer Lilly Jacobs and her two best friends, Morgan and Poppy, the trio make periodic trips to a spa when life gets too rough.

Ashley Stockingdale works in Silicon Valley as a patent attorney where the single men outnumber the women. So she can’t help but wonder why she sits home most weekends and resolves to go for it!

Four teenaged girls from different backgrounds find faith and friendship after joining Good Girlz, an afterschool church youth group.

Newly single and recently transferred to South Carolina, stockbroker Jay Jarvis joins the singles group at a local church, through which he meets a host of eccentric fellow singles during a weekend beach retreat.

Bri Stone enjoys life as a laid-back beach girl with a distinguished attorney husband, a teenage son who surfs, and a thrilling job as a coastal bus tour host, but when she discovers that her husband has grown tired of her laid-back ways, Bri decides to reinvent herself—and their home—to win him back, uncovering the truth about her family, her marriage, and herself.

Josephine Tulip is definitely a smart chick. A 21st century female MacGyver who writes a helpful hints column and solves mysteries in her spare time.

Arriving in San Francisco with her young daughters to start a new life after the death of her husband, cosmetologist Kate Madison meets two extraordinary people who show her the true meaning of friendship and faith—and help her overcome her own fears and insecurities.

Jane Williams begins to feel that God has forgotten her when her perfect life—a dream job, a great Manhattan apartment, and a happy romance—falls apart in a single day as she loses her boyfriend, her best friend, her job, her home, and perhaps her dog, and struggles to hold herself together, in a modern-day retelling of the story of Job.

Even with a supportive husband and great kids, Becca Joy feels inadequate until she embarks on a series of adventures with her best friend that bring Becca contentment.

After a broken engagement, Rayna, a fashion designer working for a Christian charitable business, has sworn off all relationships, but finds her resolve bending when she meets Flex on a train platform.

Journeying to Finland to help Penny find her only living relatives, Sharon experiences a profound new perspective on life and her faith in the land of reindeer and saunas.

Returning home to Beauty, Georgia, with her tail between her legs after being fired and dumped, Macy Moore, a former corporate executive, must find a way to get her life back on track with the help of the Single Saved Sisters, her father, and an old high school crush named Dylan.

Winning a fiction contest for unpublished novelists seems like a dream come true for graduate student Savannah Phillips—until she discovers that her pushy mother arranged for her to win.

In this compelling debut novel, several students, each dealing with their own problems, provide their perspective on high school life, including Nevaeh, a straight-A student who finds her relationship with her boyfriend of three years—and her faith—sorely tested by the pressures of sexual intimacy.

A group of 12 extremely diverse women, assigned to a prayer group at a women’s conference, become the best of friends as they support each other through the challenges and crises in their lives.

Hannah Barlett, up-and-coming journalist, soccer mom, and doctor’s wife, decides to take a much-needed break from her hectic existence, meddling neighbors, and her own lack of self-confidence, in order to take stock of her own life and dreams.

When Sadie—former Dogwood Blossom Queen, pharmacist’s wife, mother of two, and daughter of a man who fancies himself King Solomon (or King Lear?)—accepts the position of graveyard superintendent of Wileyville, Kentucky, a journey into the past with her sisters brings a stunning revelation and an understanding of what she has been waiting for.

On her twenty-ninth birthday, Mari Hamilton is convinced that leaving social work will improve her social life, so she seeks and receives a stylish position at a new and fabulous luxury spa. A funny thing happens to her on the way to a life makeover.

Average citizen Ivy Malone decides to do some sleuthing when vandalism hits her town to determine whether or not a suspicious string of events is related in this entertaining blend of suspense and whimsy.

Life would be perfect for Rev. Betsy Blessing if it weren’t for the very inconvenient feelings she is suddenly having for her long-time friend, fellow seminarian David Swenson.

“Yowza!” exclaims Kara Richardson when she sees the handsome owner of the new delicatessen. This would be the start of a perfect love story, except Kara has vowed to stop dating until she feels God’s leading.

Rennie Young meets the gallant Truman Sayers when she faints. Despite this unromantic introduction, Tru seems like a gift from God but a recent divorce causes Ren to question whether she can trust her heart.

When she learns of her father’s final request to “give it all away,” Darcy Nightengale finds that her sudden million-dollar inheritance brings its own problems as she struggles to decide how to do the right thing.

New mother and former champion athlete Esther “Essie” Walker, teaching a Sunday school class to gain an understanding of boys to better raise her newborn son, is plunged into a new world of uncontrolled chaos where she learns valuable lessons in imperfection, life, and motherhood.

Fifteen years after the disappearance of her childhood sweetheart, Lillie is ready to find love again. She finds, however, that the Christian singles scene offers nothing comparable to what she had with Teddy.

Determined to make her heavenly Father proud, purple-haired Mayla’s sincere and often hilarious attempts to let Him change her takes her into some difficult places.

Entered in a Christian beauty pageant by her daughter, a farmer’s wife finds herself in the spotlight while dealing with her best friend’s indiscretions, the new pastor’s pregnant wife, and her daughter who has fallen in love with a local boy.