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This bundle features all six of 2018's AngelStories in one set: Including "My Angel Comes", "The Tree House", "Sunset Beach" and a special edition of "My Father's Hands".

This is a work of fiction. The second book in the Stay in the Castle series. Many who have read Stay in the Castle have asked for a book for young men--this is it.

Matt Loman was a young man looking for a way to help his parents and village find a way out of a severe famine. What he didn't know was that his selfless demeanor would lead him into a supernatural world where he would discover his life's destiny. Along the way Matt receives guidance from a sage named Jedidiah, the mentor who offers the choice between honor and dishonor. Matt's opportunities and potential are limitless, but will he choose the pathway to greatness or settle for a wasted life? Will he pass the tests of the Treasure Tree? Would you?

Seed falls from the heavens and judges humanity. One foretells of the coming calamity, but the words are heeded too late. Few remain after the war against the cosmic demon. Long confined to one of the few outposts left on Earth, Sal accepts an unauthorized mission to find a survivor lost in the Vegas wastes. He believes his target is special, imbued with a spirit that might finally turn the tide against the darkness. But to save her from the risen still haunting humanity, he'll have to fight alone and outgunned against enemies that have already conquered the world.

Winter, 1939. As December draws nearer and with her family facing their first Christmas without Bert, Nancy is desperately trying to keep up her children’s spirits and her own. Young Patty should be excited to be spending her first festive season with sweetheart Archie, but why does she worry he’s keeping something from her? Betty is missing her beloved William as he continues his RAF training, but she’s determined not to sit around wallowing.

Hopeful and idealistic young Marjorie had everything lined up for a wonderful life—on paper. Her close childhood friend, Ralph, is fully expected to become her husband and is pursuing a successful career. Both come from respectable Christian families and hold bright futures. Neither of them realize the gravity of living life as shallowly as they have so far. Ralph’s pursuit of career and self-interest begins to come between his relationship with Marjorie and through her heartbreak, confusion, and introspection, she begins to truly pursue God and to deepen her understanding of faith.

When Sky Terran returns to the village of Middledip after losing the job she loves, she anticipates a quiet Christmas getting used to her new life. However, the annual street decoration competition is coming up and this year, the residents of Winter Street are determined to win. As she is pulled into the preparations, Sky quickly grows to love the quirky, tight-knit community she is now part of. Including the extremely handsome Daz, who soon becomes more than just a friendly neighbour.

We’re created to live at the intersection of grace and truth, yet we often gravitate toward one or the other. When Jesus Stole My Bread uses the power of parable - a fictionalized story of the young boy who surrendered his loaves and fish to Jesus - to help us live at the convergence of life-transforming truth and spirit-empowered grace.

The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine to, sadly, critical disdain.

A short allegory. A letter to humanity. Teetering on the edge of truth and fiction. You might even say a Tale of Reality.

The Land of Saram was once one, but the city of Verturn in the plains of Arumda has broken away, declaring itself separate from the kingdom of Saram and the authority of the High King. Carwyn, the princess of Verturn, finds herself in chains and at the mercy of the High King of Saram. Will justice or mercy prevail as she faces the consequences of being enemy born.

What would it be like if you were the only human made by Creator and He wanted a relationship with you, but you found it difficult to relate to Him? This award-winning book challenges listeners to trust in God in spite of our fears and misconceptions. A compelling, emotional, and thought-provoking allegory of one’s relationship with God. In this spiritual fantasy, Creator makes one human, named Cherished. Instead of creating a second human to be a companion for Cherished, Creator desires to fill that role. Can this relationship work?

There is a deep, rich vein of spirituality running through The Scribe, a novel that resurrects the life of Luke the Evangelist. After the crucifixion of Jesus, in its immediate aftermath, a young widower and member of the Sanhedrin becomes disillusioned with the high priests and begins to adopt a Christian way of thinking. Forced to leave Jerusalem, he finds himself in a time that heralded the birth of the gospels.

Steve Garrison is the newly elected mayor of the tiny town of Camelot, Tennessee. When his childhood friend, Amy Hart, comes up with a plan to revive the town's economy, he jumps onboard. The townspeople will perform the musical Camelot in the city's park, drawing in nightly crowds at the new outdoor theater. While excitement is high, talent is lacking. Amy casts several of the parts but is stumped when it comes to the role of King Arthur.

One day, Ms. Meadow Spring is on assignment in Paris. The next, she’s on a red-eye back to her small hometown after her sister and brother-in-law die in a car crash. She finds herself a guardian for her nieces and nephews, whom she hardly knows, and shares that title with her brother-in-law’s critical brother, Josh, who is still upset at her for abandoning their small town after high school. With her boss pressuring her to get back to Boston, a waylaid court process to give Josh full custody of the kids, all the emotions of her past rushing in on her, and a small crack forming in the ...

What happens when the people we trust the most lose their way--and what might happen if they find it again? Pastor Don Thornton has been preaching for decades, but a brush with death finally led him to meet the God he's been talking about. His lifelong friend, congressional representative Rick Davis, is falling fast—from respected attorney and representative to a compromised politician, tangled in the grip of a beautiful foreign agent. Their wives, Christina and Becky, could look away. Instead, they roll up their sleeves and launch an audacious plan to help the people their husbands—and...

Western Frontier 1889 More than anything, Evelyn Donnelly wants to become a doctor. However, the world she lives in doesn’t approve of female physicians, so she assumes her dreams of medicine will always remain elusive. Then Max Washington, apprentice to Dr. Simon O’Toole, has to briefly leave Cripple Creek, and Evelyn suddenly sees the opportunity of a lifetime. For a few short weeks, Evelyn helps Dr. O’Toole out in almost every capacity, proving her worth again and again. She’s living the dream…and then it comes crashing down. She and Max butt heads constantly. But can their ...

After Tessa lost her parents suddenly and finding herself both incredibly wealthy and entirely alone, Tessa decides to return to the first place she ever called home. But Cripple Creek doesn’t take kindly to what they call Tessa’s new “airs,” and even Blake Donahue, the boy Tessa loved in childhood and still loves now, is less than warm and welcoming. Initially, he and Tessa butt heads, but as Blake begins to see that the woman he still loves hasn’t really changed all that much, he realizes maybe the problem lies with him. But will he get the chance to tell her that when danger ...

I think my friend Jake was probably right: “In the end, our stories is all we is.” This is my story continuing, filled with lessons I’ve learned, truth I hold as precious, and the faith I have sometimes struggled to keep. The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan served as the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, and is now retired. He was ordained a priest in 1982 and a bishop in 2008. Kee grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi; his wife, Tina, grew up in Leland in the Mississippi Delta. They now live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two adult children, McKee and Mary Nell. He is the ...

Tails of the Secret Peacock is an allegory set in 1850’s England that explores the question, “What would happen if the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit came to life”? Sagesse, the lead character, is the gift of Wisdom. In this first novel, she meets three other gifts: Reverence, who is a mysterious nun from India, Strength, who is a fiery warrior from Germany, and Awe of the Lord, who is a mysterious being she meets in a secret cave behind a waterfall.