Coming-of-age, inspirational, historical fiction
Winner of the Best Indie Book Award for Best Christian Fiction 2022
1945. World War II has come to an end. But the battle for a young boy's future is just beginning.
The small, dusty town of Goldfield, Nevada, is all that thirteen-year-old Claude Fisher has ever known. The youngest of three brothers, he spends his days running wild across the desert with his best friend and neighbor, Kitty Ralph. Despite Kitty’s tumultuous home life, they are happy and carefree. Life stretches before them like the flat plains of the desert they call home.
On the cusp of young adulthood, Claude is convinced that their friendship will someday turn into more. But one tranquil autumn evening, tragedy strikes, and suddenly Claude is left holding the pieces of a broken life.
Stripped of his best friend, Claude’s faith in the God he was raised to trust is shattered. As he navigates a future he didn’t expect, Claude wrestles to make sense of it all. Why does a sovereign God permit tragedy to happen? Is the sinner worthy of forgiveness? And will he ever find hope again after losing the girl he loved?
A sweeping tale of love, loss, and the renewal of faith in the face of tragedy.
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The Gold Series
Come Forth As Gold
(Book One)
1981—Kitty and Claude Fisher have built a good life after leaving the small, dusty town of Goldfield, Nevada. As Kitty approaches her fiftieth birthday, a road trip to the Oregon coast to scatter her father's ashes resurfaces old wounds and unanswered questions. When she stumbles into a mystery at a coastal retirement home, Kitty's faith is tested when she discovers a secret that changes everything she's ever known.
1937—Lia Monroe is running from her past, fear propelling her to a new life. Yet no matter the time and distance, she can't outrun her guilt and the people she left behind. Through the pages of her journal, she records the inescapable memories, hoping one day the truth can set her free, if only she can find the courage before it's too late.
Decades apart, the two women are tied to a past that refuses to stay buried. From the award-winning author of Come Forth As Gold comes an emotional sequel exploring God’s grace and provision as the past, present, and future collide in a story that will touch your heart and spark your faith anew.
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After the Water Brooks
(Book Two)
This journal is inspired by the novel Come Forth As Gold, a story about faith shaped by grief, forgiveness, and self-reflection. This journal invites you on a transformative and redemptive journey, encouraging honest introspection and a closer walk with God as you reflect on who you are today versus who you'd like to be. Inside you'll find four weeks of guided prompts and encouraging scripture, followed by free writing space. As you fill in these pages, this journal is meant to serve as a guide, offering you courage to grow and steering you toward the light and love of God.
Reflection Journal
(Series Companion)
“Steal my heart, not my pages.”
Aspiring author Charlie Blaire never expected to stumble across her own novel at her favorite bookstore. Except this novel isn’t hers. Published under someone else’s name, the book she wrote to cope with the loss of her missionary parents is already topping charts.
Irate, confused, and determined to regain the rights to her book, Charlie leaves her idyllic life in the countryside of Vermont to set things straight in The Big Apple. When she crashes into a charming stranger who offers to help, her faith in humanity and God’s handiwork is restored. But when secrets unravel and the final pages have been turned, what’s too good to be true may turn a blossoming love story into a star-crossed tragedy.
Andrew Ketner has it all: charm, good looks, a sizable inheritance, and an almost-guaranteed future at the helm of one of New York City’s most prestigious publishing houses. While life looks perfect from the outside, living in the shadow of an overbearing father while reeling from the faith-crushing weight of personal loss has left him feeling like he’s hardly living at all.
When he stumbles across a discarded manuscript he is convinced will be an instant success, it sparks an ember of hope he thought was long extinguished. The world looks brighter until he finds himself thrown into an impossible situation. Will he protect his family’s legacy or end up falling in love with the woman whose novel they’ve unwittingly plagiarized?
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The Bookish Romance Series
The Bookish Bandit
(Book One)
Ava Fox doesn’t date. Or at least, she hasn’t since she broke the heart of her college boyfriend seven years ago. Instead, she buries her fears and insecurities by pouring her heart into her job editing books for one of New York City’s most prestigious publishing houses and running her bookish social media accounts. The carefully curated life that Ava has crafted for herself unravels when the past makes an unexpected appearance at her best friend’s wedding.
Dawson Hayes never understood why the woman he planned to marry gave up on him just as their future was about to take flight. For seven years, he has worked night and day to prove himself worthy of her. Determined to win her back, he designs a dating app for book lovers to prove that their love story is one for the books. But what seems like the perfect plan is foiled by painful secrets that Dawson knows only God can heal.
When Ava and Dawson's lives intersect again under surprising circumstances, their chance to rekindle love is obstructed by past hurts and misconceptions. As they collaborate to enhance the Blind Date with a Book Nerd dating app, will they find their way back to each other, or is their chance at true love forever out of reach?
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Blind Date with a Book Nerd
(Book Two)