Charged with cleaning out her deceased landlord's old Victorian house after her passing, Tandi Jo Reese has her whole life changed when she discovers Iola's 81 prayer boxes filled with a lifetime of hopes, wishes, fears, observations and more. Simultaneous.

"She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does." When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her Appalachian past and twisted family ties far behind. But the search for the rest of the manuscript, and Jen's suspicions about the identity of its unnamed author, will draw her into a mystery that leads back to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains . . . and quite possibly through the doors she thought she had closed forever.

From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours! Elizabeth Gallagher has been balancing on the ragged edge for a while now. Then a rough case on the boards of her 911 operator’s job collides with a family conflict at home, and Elizabeth finds herself finally coming apart at the seams. A four-state road trip—trapped in a car with her mother—is the last thing she needs. Their destination may be beautiful Hatteras Island, but the reason for going is anything by pleasant. After one disastrous hurricane, and with a second one working its way up the coast, it’s time to convince Aunt Sandy to abandon her little seaside store on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and return to the family fold in Michigan. But when the storm sweeps through, the three women will discover that sisterhood and the sea can change hearts, lives, and futures . . . often in the most unpredictable of ways.

When recently widowed Susan Gold unpacks her belongings in Florida she is surprised to see a small wooden box with strange writing on it. She soon learns that, according to the mysticism of Kabbalah, the box has magical healing powers. Susan sets out on a harrowing mission to understand where the box came from and why she was chosen to possess it. Along the way she learns that she is one of thirty-six righteous people in the world who are chosen to have a prayer box. She also discovers that there are unscrupulous people who will stop at nothing to get their hands on these prayer boxes. When Susan's granddaughter, Rachel, is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and the prayer box is powerless to help, she turns to Jeff Morton, a retired dentist with a mystical surprise of his own. Will Rachel be saved? Can Susan find a way to use the prayer box and keep it hidden? How will she survive further attempts on her life? What is Jeff Morton's secret and what role will he play in her future? These questions and more are answered in THE PRAYER BOX.

Through charming rhyme and endearing illustrations, Big Prayers for Little Kids introduces children to eight attributes of God's character in an easy-to-understand and relatable way. By coming to see who God is, children will learn to trust in God as they discover how much He deeply loves and cares for them.

There's nothing more important than your relationship with Christ. The only way to diligently seek Him is to spend time in His Presence. How can you build a relationship with someone, if you don't spend time with that person? Think about your most trusted, personal relationship today. It could be a spouse, family member or friend. Intimacy and trust happens because you've spent time together. You've endured trials together. You trust one another. You're comfortable in their presence, and you trust their judgment. They've revealed themselves to you, and you've revealed yourself to them. You can count on them, and they can count on you through thick and thin. Your commitment to the relationship helped build what you have today. Every meaningful relationship requires an investment of our personal time. Well, it is the same with God.

From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola’s rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola’s walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola’s youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper—the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything for Tandi.