Five boys meet early in their lives and grow up under disparate circumstances. They form strong and lasting bonds and unite in a common faith in Christ. Challenged over and again through many trials, they develop their God-given abilities and use them to sustain one another in the storms yet to come. Wayne Warren's boyhood is one of oppression and violence at the hands of an alcoholic father. He survives the violence because of the fiercely protective love of his Aunt Winnie, who moved into her brother's home to raise Wayne after his mother died giving birth to Wayne. Aunt Winnie, a woman of...

The past is the past, or so it should be. But, when a dangerous figure from Mariette Holmes' past imposes himself on her present and threatens to eliminate any hope for a future, she is left with no other choice but to flee to The Sheltering Country Mariette soon realizes that danger comes in many forms. So does protection. She is determined to secure a future for herself, and through the kindhearted efforts of those she encounters, hope remains.

Mrs. Hoyle, a young wife, is found dead in her bed early one spring morning. Her sudden and mysterious death compels Dr. Merryman, the county coroner, and his part-time nurse, Miss Jaymes, to dig more deeply into the cause of her death. Was it suicide or murder? What they discover in the course of their investigation surprises everyone, and exposes a silent enemy.

Ailis Belle and Adelio Beaumont are cast into the cruel world of the Great Depression at the death of their only parent, their mother. Belle, knowing that she cannot care for Adelio, makes the decision to leave her younger brother with a loving adoptive family in Missouri while she goes to Louisiana to carve out an existence for herself. Along the way she befriends a fellow wanderer, Gideon "Highshine" Brown, a talented trumpet player and a young man with a dream of making a name for himself in the world of jazz. When Belle's life is threatened, Highshine seeks a higher power for help. That...

Dr. Miguel Munoz is practicing the down-to-earth type of medicine he always longed to do. His focus is not on financial profit, but service to his fellow man, particularly the less fortunate and the working class struggling to stay ahead of their bills. When Dr. Munoz's unusual clientele puts him on the foul side of his more affluent and powerful colleagues, particularly Dr. Peter Arliss, he soon finds his life spiraling downward. Soon, he's in much the same circumstances as his patients, struggling to exist. Still, he continues to tend their medical needs. When he stumbles upon a human...

Robyn Abram didn't realize that the gift she was offering her friends, Jeff and Ann, would spark so much controversy. When a local reporter, Manny Espinoza, exposed Robyn's identity as a surrogate to his readers and questioned whether science was circumventing the natural plan for the creation of new life, a social firestorm erupted. Two political Goliaths awoke and prepared to do battle. After a failed attempt on Robyn's life left her hospitalized and fighting for survival, they stepped up and demanded the right to determine which life would be sacrificed to save the other.

Maggie Gillings' first attempt to flee the hands of her abusive mother occurred when she was just five years old. She was willing to face the dangers of the harsh Wyoming countryside, alone and friendless, rather than remain in a home where she was targeted for abuse by one of the two people who were supposed to care for her the most. When five-year-old Maggie was found cowering in a ravine on a neighboring ranch, cornered by a growling and barking dog belonging to the ranch's owner, she was returned home where she endured five more years of physical and emotional abuse. At the age of ten,...