Coming of Age

Inspirational

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Land of Promises

Historical Fiction; Old West; Coming of Age

On the American frontier of 1841, families push west along the new Oregon Trail, chasing hope through a land as dangerous as it is promising.

Martha McHenry’s husband left months earlier to claim a homestead in

the Oregon Territory. When he fails to return, she fears the worst and sets out from Ohio with her young son to find him. Their journey leads them to Missouri, where they join Captain Matt Springer’s wagon train preparing to depart Independence.

Meanwhile, prominent banker Wentworth McGough and his son-in-law are ambushed and killed by masked marauders posing as Indians. His six daughters escape and reach the wagon camp days later—alone, shaken, and without supplies. Captain Springer warns they cannot cross the plains without protection, and departure is only three days away.

To save them, he turns to an unlikely rescue party: courageous Caroline McGough, Martha and her son, loyal wranglers, and three rugged mountain men. As the caravan pushes west into unforgiving wilderness, every traveler is tested by hardship, loss, and the thin line between hope and despair.

Yet in the vast Land of Promises, they discover that courage, love, and steadfast faith can light even the darkest trail.

Street Prince

Historical Fiction; Coming of Age; Faith-Based

Street Prince is a poignant portrait of twelve-year-old Lamont Jackson, a boy shaped by loss, poverty, and a fierce will to survive.

Abandoned at birth with a scribbled note—His name is Lamont. I am no fit mother.—he is raised with unwavering love by his grandmother, Elma. But when Elma’s long-estranged daughter, Letty, returns home with two small children, the fragile peace shatters. A disastrous homecoming leaves the family reeling. Letty demands money to leave her children in Elma’s care, then destroys the written confession of Lamont’s abandonment. When Elma cannot pay, Letty rips the children away out of spite, plunging them into chaos.

Days pass with Letty vanished—leaving Lamont, five-year-old Ivory, and their toddler sister abandoned. A devastating apartment fire follows, scattering the children and tearing apart the family yet again.

Placed with foster parents and overwhelmed by trauma, Lamont runs away into a bitter winter night, trudging through snow and danger. He clings to one mission: free his mother from jail, reunite his fractured family, and win the friendship of his new classmate, the proper and distant Esmaria. But grit and cleverness may not be enough to save him.

Meet Lamont Jackson—Street Prince. His fate may rest in the hands of a judge, but his story will rest with you.

TIDES

Children/Adolescents Fiction; Values

Some boys hear the call of adventure, but one boy hears something deeper – the song of the sea.

From the cliffs where he lives, a curious child follows the sound of waves down to the water’s edge. Instead of going to school, he swims with playful otters, explores tide pools, and befriends the wondrous creatures beneath the surface. The ocean becomes his teacher, his companion, and his escape.

As he grows older, storms begin to follow him. A crashing sea, a powerful wind, and a fear he cannot name push him to run – from his bride, from his mother, and from the promises he’s too frightened to keep. Guided only by the whispering voice inside a seashell, he leaps aboard the first ship leaving port, sailing toward anywhere and nowhere all at once.

Days turn into years. The young runaway becomes a lonely sea captain with an empty heart and no place to call home. Until, at last, the longing for his past becomes stronger than the pull of the tides. He returns older, humbled, and unsure if anyone will remember him.

But home remembers. And home forgives.

To keep other sailors safe, the mariner transforms his cliff side house into a shining lighthouse, guiding ships through the dark and casting a beam of hope for all who wander. With his patient wife and their dog and cat, he lives quietly, wishing for the one thing the sea could never give him – a child.

Then, one mysterious night, a small bundle is left on the lighthouse steps. Will this gift change everything?

From the roaring ocean to fields of golden wheat, this is a tale of adventure, forgiveness, and finding your way home.

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