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In high school, Dakota Jayne was my everything. My life. My soul. The air I breathed. She was my light. One day we were planning the rest of our life. The next I was picking up the shattered pieces of my broken heart. She abandoned me without looking back. Had she glanced in the rearview, she would’ve seen me chasing after her through the dust cloud she stirred up when she hightailed it out of town. Now, eleven years later, she’s back and creating havoc between my heart and mind.

Before you try to rekindle what was lost, take a moment to ask the hardest question: Should you even try? When love ends, the silence it leaves behind can be deafening. We replay memories, analyze messages, and convince ourselves that if we just said or did the right thing, maybe we could fix it. But love, healing, and reconciliation all begin in the same place: with truth.

Indy Stone is a well regarded professional therapist with her life all planned out. She's spent her life trying to escape her dysfunctional upbringing in Peach Valley. But when fate intervenes and causes her to return to her hometown with a huge responsibility on her shoulders, she never expects it to change her entire life. Through all of her hard times, there was always one bright spot in Peach Valley, but he disappeared years ago. Or did he?

Adventure journalist Colt Buchanan grabbed his own bootstraps and yanked hard - leaving the poverty of his rural hometown behind for a scholarship to a fancy East Coast college and then the bright lights of the big city. But when an assignment in the Middle East leaves his interview subject dead and Colt's memory riddled with holes you can drive a bus through, he comes back to the only place that's ever felt like home - the Manhattan apartment of a pretty Hollywood princess he never had any business wanting.

Abandoned by her parents at 14, Jessica knows what it means to struggle. She's vowed that getting her degree is the only thing she has time for, until a summer internship brings Justin into her life. But Justin has scars of his own. A tour of duty in Afghanistan has left him with wounds. A medical discharge from the Navy leaves Justin struggling to make sense of his new reality. Then he meets Jessica; but can the two of them leave their pain in the past and make a future together?

Just how wrong is it to want my best friend's little sister? And, how do you fix a broken heart? This inquiring mind wants to know. It probably doesn't matter though because Nora hates me. If you ever wondered, it is possible to live and work with someone in a small town and not speak to said person for months. That's how long Nora ignores me after I tell her commitment isn't for me. I didn't know I was already in love with her. I didn't know I was breaking my own heart by telling myself it was too complicated to fall for my best friend's sister.

"Du könntest mein Herz in tausend kleine Stücke zerbrechen. Ich würde sie immer wieder aufheben und in deine Hände legen." Als Kinder haben sich Aaron und Fleur geschworen, einander ewig zu lieben - bis ihnen das Leben einen grausamen Strich durch die Rechnung machte und sie von einem Tag auf den anderen trennte. Nun, sechzehn Jahre später, stehen sie sich erneut gegenüber - und Fleur erkennt den Jungen, der ihr an seinem achten Geburtstag ihren ersten Kuss gab, nicht wieder. Aaron ist kühl und abweisend, in seinem Leben zählt nichts anderes als sein Job.

Sie darf ihn nicht lieben - denn er ist ihr Stiefbruder ... Als Callie nach langer Zeit in ihre Heimatstadt zurückkehrt, ist der Erste, dem sie dort begegnet, ausgerechnet Keith. Keith, der den Autounfall verursachte, bei dem ihr Vater starb. Keith, den sie nie mehr wiedersehen wollte. Sofort flammen der Schmerz und die Wut von damals wieder in ihr auf. Aber auch ein gefährliches Prickeln, das Callie völlig verwirrt. Denn Keith ist nicht nur die Person, die sie am meisten hasst. Er ist auch ihr Stiefbruder.

For the first time in his life, Wes Ahern has encountered something—someone—he can’t fix. Not with his hands, his words, not even with his love. His head tells him Abby had to get out of Colorado to heal from the nightmare that nearly took her from him. To mend her wounded body, piece her broken spirit back together, and find out who she is behind the mask she felt forced to wear.

Narrated by the author, this 26-minute audiobook—complete with music and sound effects—retells the Bible's core message, showing children that God's promises are even bigger and better than we think. Features original music by composer John Poon.

An examination of the imminence of Christ's return in light of today's headlines and the events recorded in Scripture. The morning newspapers are jammed with alarming headlines and stories asking questions no one can answer. In Storm Warning, Billy Graham examines the problems facing America...

A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his...

Fading are the days of direct communication by phone or in person, which have immediate responses and clarifications. The immediate feedback loop has been replaced by "broken loops" of communication. Now, due to hundreds of emails and texts, endless waiting, perpetual unreturned messages, and unlimited misunderstanding, we are in a Dyscommunication Crisis. This gives rise to the "Dyscommunication Syndrome" - a cluster of symptoms that comes together and repeats when our message is not returned, including anxiety, worst-case scenarios, catastrophizing, and negative loops of thinking.

If anyone had good reason to join the league of the “Nones,” the “Dones,” and the deconstructionists, it would be Zach Hoag. After growing up and out of the compound walls of a Texas cult, and becoming a failed church planter in one of the most post-Christian cities in America, Zach was...