{"product_id":"coffee-shop-confessional-ebook","title":"Coffee Shop Confessional (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSome confessions don't always belong in a church. They belong across the street, with a good espresso and someone who knows how to listen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaggie Calloway makes excellent coffee and keeps her boundaries clear. She co-owns Common Grounds, the warmest coffee shop on Grover Street, and she's built a life that's deliberately simple: good beans, loyal regulars and a Sunday that belongs only to her. What she doesn't do is religion. Not anymore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when people from Grace Community Church—the cheerful brick building across the street—start sitting at her counter with things they can't say anywhere else, Maggie finds herself doing something she never planned: listening. Really listening. And somehow, without credentials or theology or any intention whatsoever, she becomes the person people come to when the church feels too formal and their grief feels too heavy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnter Pastor Eli Ward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe's earnest, self-aware and unexpectedly charming. He makes a perfect cortado at home and has very specific opinions about grind size. When he walks into Common Grounds to understand why his congregation is confessing to the barista instead of him, he doesn't come with territory to protect—he comes with genuine curiosity. And a legal pad he never actually uses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat begins as an unlikely partnership becomes something neither of them planned for: a slow-burn collaboration that blurs the line between ministry and friendship, between faith and the space just outside it. Because grace, it turns out, doesn't check the address before it shows up. And sometimes the most sacred work happens over coffee, in a room that smells like cardamom and second chances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA cozy romance about ministry without credentials, love without pretense, and the surprising places grace shows up when you stop looking for it in all the traditional spots.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Summer Trahan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51586558492905,"sku":"0130","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/2825\/7769\/files\/BlackandBeigeMinimalistTabletMockupPinterestPin.png?v=1785108863","url":"https:\/\/www.summertrahan.com\/products\/coffee-shop-confessional-ebook","provider":"Summer Trahan Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}