In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take is...

"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have...

"Grant McKay forges a path through the ravaged Eververse, determined to undo the damage he caused. His first stop is a world where his estranged daughter Pia has managed a peace offering between three godlike races, ending eons of brutal warfare. Grant's appearance threatens to destroy the fragile truce, sending him on a quest to finally bring his family home...but what he finds waiting for him there may be worse than the multitude horrors he encountered...

To Hell, this world is fractured and faithless, perfectly ripe for the picking. Sent by Heaven, Guardians defend against a malevolent onslaught of demonic intrusion. For hundreds of years the nine siblings of the O'Mara family have been engaged in this merciless battle, fighting to protect the souls of all humanity. Heaven and Hell have been waging this infernal war bound only by the rules of a contentious accord. On the anniversary of her husband...

"WOW, just wow! Once I started this novella there was not even an option of putting it down."Want to hear two truths and a lie?My name is Declan Ace McClintock.My profession?Hitman.My weakness?Sex.But, the truth about a lie is, it's never really, truly a lie, is it?Most everyone's deceit holds a small amount of honesty.A little bit of yourself that could be true, if you let it.So, what part of my deception is fabricated?How far did I go to invent...

Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends. During that one blustery winter solstice day, between the railway station and the church where a funeral mass is underway, he meets old villagers, forgotten neighbors, and characters who are either imagined or real. But...

Explore the power and mystery of salvation. Christianity is a religion of salvation, and Christ is the Savior but what does it mean to be saved? In the New Testament and throughout history, powerful images and models have been used to describe the event of salvation. Now, in What Does It Mean to Be Saved?: The Theology of Salvation, you will systematically explore these powerful images. Through these 12 brilliantly taught lectures, you will gain a...

A gambler seeking forgiveness for accidentally killing a man attempts to help the dead man's widow, but she wants nothing to do with him--no matter how badly she needs him.

The Atonement explores the Biblical foundations for the penal substitutionary atonement by Jesus showing why he died to pay the due punishment of the sins of those who would believe in him. This is, a great resource for anyone wanting, to grow deeper in their understanding of what, happened on the cross and why. Content I. The Atonement. II. The Significance of Christ's Death. III. The Satisfaction View of the Atonement. IV. The Active and Passive...

The family has come a long way, Demetrius Shepherd has finally stepped out of his father, Don Shepherd's shadow and is now living for the Lord with his wife and son, Dam. But Don Shepherd has been no angel and with his last days in front of him, he begins to realize that he has a lot to atone. By all accounts, God was showing up and showing out in Dam Shepherd's life. He had just graduated from college, was about to begin his ministry and had met...