This book really helped me spiritually. With clear teaching from the Bible, it gave me hope that it's truly possible to live moment by moment "abiding in Christ" like a branch grafted into a vine. I'm encouraged to continue choosing to abide while trusting that the God who invites - instructs - commands me to do so wants it even more than I do and is able to mature me in Himself.
Using Jesus' words in John 15, "I am the vine; you are the branches," Andrew Murray explores how the believer abides in Christ. In a message as timely today as when first published in 1895, he urges readers to yield themselves to Jesus, in order that they may know the "rich and full experience of the blessedness of abiding in Christ."
The characters and their situations moved right into my heart. Their small town nestled in the mountains is gorgeous, the mysterious quest complex and intriguing, and despite the darkness there is light. The ending brought multiple misty-eyed "awww" moments and a real feel-good satisfaction. I want to read this story again.
A lost treasure. A riddled quest. The healing power of friendship.
Legends are tucked into every fold of the Colorado mountains surrounding the quaint town of Mercy Peak, where residents are the stuff of tall tales, the peaks are taller still, and a lost treasure has etched mystery into the very terrain.
In 1948, when outsider Mercy Windsor arrives after a scandal shatters her gilded world as Hollywood's beloved leading lady, she is determined to forge a new life in obscurity in this time-forgotten Colorado haven. She purchases Wildwood, an abandoned estate with a haunting history, and begins to restore…
This was good, clean fun: a stalker novel yet not traumatic. It felt more like a puzzle I wanted to help the main character solve. And I loved seeing the story from Alex's point of view. She's a neurodivergent character with high-functioning autism, and being in her head helped me understand her. Oh, and mountains. The story's set in gorgeous West Virginia in the mountains.
Her readers love her... but one has gotten a little too attached.
Alexandra Dubois, a NYT bestselling author, has made a name for herself by crafting twisted serial killers in her romantic suspense series. When threatening notes from an "invested reader" escalate into violence, Alex has to admit she's not safe in her own home. Although her autism makes any changes to her routine difficult, she reluctantly accepts her editor's advice to fly to his sprawling vacation home in West Virginia so she can focus on her looming deadline.
Fighting paranoia that the stalker has discovered her mountain hideaway, Alex…
When a dear friend needs support, Landon Smith returns to her hometown. She can only pray it won't undo the healing she's found from her traumatic past. Her friend, Anna, is a key part of that healing. She's like a second mother and spiritual mentor rolled into one.
Anna Young, recently widowed, runs a country inn on Canada’s Atlantic coast. Someone's playing mind games with her: sounds in the night, simple pranks. The police think it's all in her head. But Anna's heart for misfits may have gained her an enemy, and the incidents are escalating. Landon has lost too much to lose Anna, too. Step one: prove there's a prowler. Step two: stop him. Then, go home to face the consequences of her absence.
