Showing results for "Miles" in Christian Fiction

The women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss. Can they find equilibrium in the midst of all that has changed? Mara: While faced with the turmoil of divorce and chaos at home, she is also listening for a call to serve others with courage and creativity. Hannah: As...

Ela só queria uma vida tranquila, um bom emprego e um estoque vitalício de chai latte. Mas uma codorna travessa clicou em "enviar". Aos 32 anos, Cássia Benedetti tem a carreira que sempre quis, amigas incríveis e um talento natural para evitar qualquer envolvimento amoroso sério. Afinal...

Gina Reid is surrounded by people getting married or having babies. She's under pressure to settle down, but how can she do that when she doesn't even know where she came from? Since the startling revelation that she was adopted, it's felt like there is something missing. But, fear has kept her from searching for her biological parents. What if learning the truth is worse than not knowing? Now, an overheard comment has propelled her into action.

From the author of The Walk and The Christmas Box, the inspiring New York Times bestseller about the journey of a heartbroken man who embarks on a walk across America. Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to...

Caroline McGuire returns to Redemption, Alaska to prove herself as the town's new physician assistant. Haunted by a teenage mistake, she's determined to rebuild her reputation and keep her heart safely guarded. Then Jude Mercer shows up injured at her family's resort. Six months ago in Colorado, they shared an incredible night—and a kiss that made Caroline believe in possibilities. Then he ghosted her without explanation. Now the suspended biathlete needs her medical expertise, and Caroline must treat the man who already broke her trust once.

The girl-next-door quilter might not fight good and evil, like he depicts as a comic book artist, but she leaps tall buildings in a single bound. He sees it in her brave quest to locate her long-lost sister and the way she champions his motherless daughter. It’s not just her superhuman strength he’s attracted to—it’s the strength of her heart. She stitches together the different blocks of her life with love, much like the magical quilts she creates. Soon he’s modeling his new female superhero after her.

Two boys. Two battles. One friendship that will change everything. They never planned to meet. They never expected to need each other. When James and Tony are placed in the same hospital room, their worlds collide in ways neither of them is prepared for. One is fighting a very real battle inside his body. The other is fighting something far less visible—but just as real. One believes deeply in God. The other isn’t sure God exists at all. Different backgrounds. Different beliefs. Different ways of coping. Two lives moving in opposite directions, forced into the same space.

Pilgrim's Progress meets Mad Max in this post-apocalyptic road-trip. On the day he saves his fortress town from raiders, Chris Walker makes a devastating discovery that will overturn everything he believes and force him to leave the safety of his home. As he heads out into a shattered land, Chris must fight for his life and battle his own demons as well.

When Aaron Johnson takes his married sister back to her home in Trade, Tennessee, he gets caught in a blizzard in the Appalachian Mountains on his return trip to West Virginia. Finding a remote cabin, he arrives frostbitten and needing care.

Each year, the second week in September, an event known as the Wasatch Front 100 Mile Endurance Run brings together a group of intense, well-trained athletes. All summer long they plan and execute on grueling training runs, some through the night, then meet up to test their endurance skills. Each individual must cover the course that starts in the foothills north of Salt Lake City and traverses four counties in northern Utah--on foot.

Within months after living through the frightening aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Oz and his wife Nicki vowed to never be caught off guard by life’s disastrous events. Together, they developed a deep understanding of gardening, food preservation, water purification and storage methods, security procedures, firearms training, and the importance of community. The more they learned, the less dependent they became on the grid, box stores, utility companies, grocery stores, and gas stations. 

Maggie Foster has a reputation for pouring her heart into her work. As a nurse in training in one of Philadelphia’s many hospitals, she has no shortage of patients who appreciate her care – but when the hospital is suddenly closed, she finds herself at loose ends. Accepting a marriage proposal seems to be her only option. Soon she finds herself engaged to a man she’s never met – but the surprises she anticipates aren’t the surprises she finds once she arrives in Miles Gulch, Wyoming.

Can love conquer distance? Joe Noon never thought he’d need to answer that question until the woman he adores, Mia Kingswell, decides to move away to care for her grandmother. Devastated and struggling with the impending separation, Joe tries to cope—until Mia challenges him with one heartbreaking truth: he’s never done anything extreme to prove his love for her. Determined to win her heart and change the course of their future, Joe embarks on a daring journey that stretches across 1,500 miles. From a broken-down car to relentless storms, each mile tests his resolve.

Lily Montgomery’s parents have died, leaving Lily and her younger sister, Hope, to struggle with the debts left behind. Jobs are sparser than ever—and it seems Lily’s only option is to become a Mail Order Bride.

Neither Ellie Dawson nor Jonathan Hart are strangers to tragedy. Though they have never met, both have lost parents and sisters, and are alone in the world. When a matrimonial agency matches the two as husband and wife, it seems common ground isn’t enough to make a successful marriage.

Years after being left at the altar, Susan Spencer is facing another sad, cold, lonely Christmas in Boston. Unwilling to let her life continue like this, she accepts a match with a bachelor blacksmith in Miles Gulch, Wyoming. Her dreams are immediately shattered. Her fiancé is deathly ill and passes away shortly after her arrival. Alone in Miles Gulch, Susan befriends the folks in town, and when they assume she was already married to the blacksmith, she hasn’t the heart to set them straight. With a home, a job, and friends, Susan is determined to make this new life a better one.

Briana Matthews despairs of finding a husband in her native Boston, so she writes a Mail Order Bride agency. A rancher named Kevin Bannon in Miles Gulch, Wyoming, responds, agreeing to marry her. Yet, Kevin has a secret. He doesn’t want to marry at all. What he does want is to secure a loan from a bank manager who believes married men are a better risk. Briana marries Kevin, and finds him standoffish, aloof, and unloving. What has she stepped into? Briana learns of the loan. She’s devastated - and furious.