{"title":"Christian Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-anonymous-prayer-project-ebook","title":"The Anonymous Prayer Project (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Anonymous Prayer Project is a tender, funny novel full of the kind of hope that costs something.\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for book clubs, women's ministry groups, and anyone who has ever been brave enough to let someone pray for them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllie Harper is the quiet engine of the Charleston Inter-Church Outreach Center — dependable, warm, and skilled at making herself invisible. When she designs the Anonymous Prayer Project, a twelve-week initiative pairing strangers from five local churches to pray for each other anonymously, she plans to coordinate it flawlessly from the background. She does not plan to participate.\u003cbr\u003eHer director signs her up anyway.\u003cbr\u003eEach Monday, a new theme arrives: Identity. Fear. Compassion. Their Heart. Forgiveness. And each week, Ellie discovers that the curriculum she wrote for everyone else has been waiting to find her. Her anonymous partner — careful, honest, and unexpectedly perceptive — writes back in ways that make her feel known in a way she'd stopped expecting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShe doesn't know it's Caleb.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaleb Brooks, her quiet, steady coworker, figured out it was Ellie around Week Six. He kept writing anyway — because she needed it to stay anonymous a little longer, and he was willing to wait.\u003cbr\u003eSet among the live oaks and salt-marsh warmth of Charleston, South Carolina, The Anonymous Prayer Project is a story about the prayers we send into the dark and what we find when the light comes on. It's about chronic illness and the courage it takes to receive care. It's about a mother who texts Bible verses followed immediately by photos of dogs in sombreros. It's about a guarded teenager who shows up because someone finally did for him. And it's about two people discovering that being fully known — by God, by a stranger, by someone who's been right there all along — is the thing they were most afraid of and most needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFor readers who love:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e✦ Slow-burn romance grounded in faith and friendship\u003cbr\u003e✦ Characters who are quietly brave and deeply real\u003cbr\u003e✦ Stories about community, belonging, and being seen\u003cbr\u003e✦ Christian fiction that takes faith — and humor — seriously\u003cbr\u003e✦ The warmth of a Southern setting with the depth of real transformation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Summer Trahan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51522182414569,"sku":"0102","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/2825\/7769\/files\/BlackandBeigeMinimalistTabletMockupPinterestPin_d596138b-12a1-4d68-a7a5-abbd9c872ce0.png?v=1784093090"},{"product_id":"eyes-like-embers-ebook","title":"Eyes Like Embers (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA suspended arson investigator. A pastor who won't stop telling the truth. Seven women who built the evidence that could bring down the most powerful man in the county — and died before anyone believed them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNora Callahan arrives in Granger's Hollow, Oregon, to close a fire file. She finds two accelerant origins where the official report shows one, a covered-up investigation, and a burned church full of things that were never meant to survive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fireproof box in the ruins contains eight months of meticulous documentation — photographs, signed statements, financial records, and a recording — compiled by a group of women who understood that feelings weren't evidence, and that evidence was the only thing that would hold. They were right. Someone made sure they didn't live to see it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith her credentials suspended, the official channels compromised, and a man named Denton Harwick capable of reaching further than she'd anticipated, Nora has approximately no time and exactly one ally: Eli Greer, the former pastor of the burned church, who got two women out and has been living in the rubble of the rest ever since.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Nora builds the case that Maren Costello started, she finds herself navigating something she's less practiced at than arson — the specific work of letting someone else carry part of the weight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEYES LIKE EMBERS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel about what it takes to prove the truth, what it costs to carry grief alone, and what happens when two people who have both gotten very good at the performance of being fine find each other in a place where neither of them can manage it anymore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Summer Trahan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51522191098089,"sku":"0103","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/2825\/7769\/files\/BlackandBeigeMinimalistTabletMockupPinterestPin_967a9e97-c5e9-4dbc-b66f-ca7a2a8594b7.png?v=1784093350"},{"product_id":"bayou-covenant-the-covenant-series-book-1-ebook","title":"Bayou Covenant (The Covenant Series Book 1) (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTrue shepherds lay down their lives. False ones build fences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMissionary nurse Claire Marchand came to the Louisiana bayou to disappear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Eighteen months after her fiancé’s death in a West Africa clinic, she’s been running — from grief, from the deployments she can’t face, from the version of herself that existed before loss. Covenant Reach sounds like exactly what she needs: a secluded Christian community deep in the backwater, six weeks of basic medical care, nothing complicated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe arrives at dawn. The compound is beautiful — white-painted buildings, a chapel spire, a vegetable garden in careful rows. Elder Silas Broussard receives her with warm authority. The community brings her food and asks polite questions and seems genuinely glad she’s come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnd then the small things begin to accumulate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWomen whose bodies hold themselves wrong. Faces performing the right emotion a beat too late. A teenage girl who mouths two words across the dining hall — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ehelp me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — and then looks away. A note slipped under Claire’s cottage door: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey took my baby. They’ll take yours too if you stay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe woman Claire is called to treat hasn’t fallen. The compound’s one telephone is monitored. And the new community member who arrived days before she did — Elder Silas’s quiet, watchful nephew — is not a returning believer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWade Broussard is DEA undercover, embedded to break a drug trafficking network running supply boats beneath the compound’s missionary cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He did not account for a real missionary nurse. He didn’t expect to feel responsible for her. And he certainly didn’t expect, when his extraction window finally opens, to realize he doesn’t want to leave without her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Claire maps the full scope of what’s happening beneath Covenant Reach’s surface — systematic abuse, women held captive by weaponized faith, children used as leverage — she and Wade have forty-eight hours to get a compound full of people to safety before his cover falls and the exits close for good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBayou Covenant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel about grief that becomes purpose, faith tested in the darkest rooms, and two people who find each other on the other side of what they thought they couldn’t survive. 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No one can find them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a young community mother whispers a name at the clinic door and turns away — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003edo you know a woman named Liesel Brandt?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — Claire recognizes the pattern she documented in the bayou. She knows what she’s looking at. She just needs the evidence to prove it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEA agent Wade Broussard has no jurisdiction in Texas, no agency resources, and no good reason to drive eight hours to Hill Country on personal leave. He drives anyway. Alongside investigative journalist Rosa Vega, who has been working this story for eight months and has a folder full of names she cannot locate, the three of them begin to build a case around a community elder who genuinely believes what he’s doing — and a placement operator named Dutch Haverford whose network reaches across three states.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the loft of the east barn, a woman named Liesel Brandt has been keeping a log for seven years. Thirteen names. Photographs. Evidence. She has been waiting for someone who could read the signal she’s been leaving, and now someone has come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHill Country Covenant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a novel about the faith that survives in the darkest rooms and the courage it takes to walk out through the open gate. 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He is on the dock when she arrives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat neither of them expects is Esther: a Liberian woman with a scar above her right eyebrow and a seven-year-old daughter in Monrovia, who was in a West Africa clinic the week before the worst loss of Claire's life, and who has been waiting in a room with a covered window and a pitcher of water for someone to finally come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSaltwater Covenant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the final book in the Covenant Series — a story about what it costs to witness hard things, what it means to be found by your own past, and what two careful people finally say when they think there are no more words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Summer Trahan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51522250244329,"sku":"0110","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/2825\/7769\/files\/BlackandBeigeMinimalistTabletMockupPinterestPin_bdb886c9-9938-40af-9360-55947c7939ab.png?v=1784094847"},{"product_id":"the-midnight-prayer-line-ebook","title":"The Midnight Prayer Line (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShe saves everyone else. Who will save her?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMallory Chen has spent five years as a crisis hotline counselor, talking strangers through their darkest moments. She's good at it — expertly trained, deeply committed, completely burned out. When her supervisor mandates two weeks off, Mallory reluctantly agrees to volunteer on the midnight shift of a small church's anonymous prayer line. No names, no crises, just listening. Simple.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExcept nothing about it turns out to be simple.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe callers become her anchors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e A lonely widow who calls every Thursday. A teenager wrestling with identity in the dark. And then there's the man with the warm, careful voice who calls on Tuesday nights — a widower three years out from loss who chooses his words like he respects their weight. He never gives his name. She never gives hers. But somewhere between midnight and dawn, in the sacred anonymity of that small prayer room, they begin to know each other in ways that names never could have allowed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBut anonymity has limits.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the midnight shift is threatened with closure, Mallory fights to save the community she didn't know she needed. When the walls between her and Tuesday begin to crack, she has to face the fear she's been running from for eight years — that being truly known means risking being truly rejected.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnd when the truth finally comes out, it's bigger than either of them expected.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Midnight Prayer Line\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a deeply moving contemporary Christian romance about burnout and healing, the courage to be vulnerable, and the unexpected places where community — and love — take root. 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Until a patient with silver-blonde hair and radical honesty walks into his treatment room and he realizes some boundaries were made to be crossed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen they both end up at the same chronic illness support group, their parallel struggles with faith, suffering, and grace begin to interweave. A shared scripture. Small kindnesses. Coffee shop conversations. The terrifying vulnerability of being seen at your worst—and being chosen anyway.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut learning to trust doesn't erase the wounds. When Helena's body betrays another good week with a devastating flare, and Forrest's old crisis replays itself at work, both must decide: do they protect themselves by pulling away, or do they risk everything by showing up imperfect?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePeace Beneath the Pines\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an inspirational Christian romance that handles chronic illness, depression, and medical trauma with unflinching honesty and profound grace. 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It's the people who show up—week after week, Tuesday after Tuesday.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fifteen years, six women have gathered at their corner table in Cornerstone Community Church's fellowship hall. They've become more than friends. 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The building will be sold. Services end in three months.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuddenly, everything these women have built—their rhythms, their routines, their sacred corner table—is disappearing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey make a pact to stay together. To keep meeting for Tuesday lunch no matter what. To prove that community can survive change.\u003cbr\u003eBut when the building is demolished and their circle fractures under the weight of grief, doubt, and fear, they each face their darkest moment:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Sheila realizes her identity is built on being needed\u003cbr\u003e• June discovers she can't control her way out of chaos\u003cbr\u003e• Ava admits her faith might have been nostalgia all along\u003cbr\u003e• Susan fears she's gossip, not love\u003cbr\u003e• Liza feels invisible without her art mattering\u003cbr\u003e• Wendy doesn't believe she belongs anywhere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCan the Tuesday table survive being rebuilt from broken pieces?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Tuesday Table\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a tender, honest story about six ordinary women navigating extraordinary loss. 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She's spent her whole life watching it, mouthing hymns, and performing a certainty she can't locate anywhere inside herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen she falls down a staircase at a geology museum. And the world shifts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow she can see them: symbols hovering above people's heads whenever they make a claim about belief. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for genuine, unwavering faith. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSilver sparks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for honest doubt woven through real belief. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGrey static\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for performing certainty you don't feel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBlack smoke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for deliberate deception. 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