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I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough! Gritty and about as real life (unfortunately!) as Christian fiction can get.
—Barb Huff, author of the On Tour series
and co-author of the upcoming Girlfriend Codes Series.

Reading Michelle Sutton’s work is almost like an out-of-body experience. From the very first page, I was swept into the world of her heroine, destined for an emotional tidal wave over the plight of a character who was so natural, so real that I felt as if she were flesh and blood. Characterization this finely crafted truly transports a reader out of their world into another, where a heart-wrenching plot laced with spiritual truths grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go.
—Julie Lessman, author of A Passion Most Pure

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It's Not About Me
A Second Glances Novel #1
by Michelle Sutton
September 2008

Annie has it all. She's attractive, graduated with honors, was accepted at the college of her choice, has supportive parents, good friends, and a steady boyfriend who loves her. The focus of her life is to please everyone and not make any waves. Her reputation means everything to her.

But one night Annie's safe world is shattered. As she fights to put the pieces of her broken life back together, against her will she is caught in a war between two brothers, both of whom claim to have her best interests at heart.

Who will Annie choose? And will she finally come to know the One whose love will never fail, even in her darkest hour? Will she learn the truth about life—that it’s not about "me"?

ISBN 978-0-9797485-1-6
Trade paperback with discussion guide, 352 pp.
$12.99

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Since savoring the last page of One Holy Night, I have found myself revisiting the characters regularly as if they were members of my own family. Amazingly, Hochstetler tackles several big issues—love, loyalty, war and death—while maintaining a positive thesis. Family can survive. Human love is grander in weakness than in strength. And faith is, by necessity, stronger in tragedy than in triumph.

One Holy Night is a soon-to-be-classic “miracle story” with an inspirational message that will warm your heart with love. It is a wonderful statement of faith and a gift of hope.
—Kathy Harris, author and agent
 for Joe Bonsall of the Oak Ridge Boys

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One Holy Night
by J. M. Hochstetler

In 1967 the military build-up in Viet Nam is undergoing a dramatic surge. The resulting explosion of anti-war sentiment slices through generations and shatters families. In the quiet bedroom community of Shepherdsville, Minnesota, the war comes home to Frank and Maggie McRae, whose only son, Mike, is a grunt in Viet Nam.

Frank despises all Asians because of the horrors he witnessed as a young soldier fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during WWII, and especially because of his brother’s brutal death in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. So when Mike marries Thi Nhuong, a young Vietnamese woman, Frank ignores the pleas of his wife, Maggie, and daughter, Julie, and disowns his soldier son. At the same time Frank desperately bargains with a God he hardly knows for Maggie’s healing from cancer. 

With his world ripped apart, Frank is forced to confront the ugliness of his hatred in an unforgettable moment of truth. What happens next is nothing less than a miracle . . .

A deeply moving story of forgiveness and reconciliation, One Holy Night is destined to become a classic for all seasons. It deals compassionately with the gritty issues of life—war and violence, devastating illness, intergenerational and interracial conflict, addictions, and broken relationships in a way that will warm readers’ hearts with hope and joy long after they finish reading.

ISBN-13  978-0-9797485-0-9 
Trade paperback, 272 pp. 
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April 2009

My Son, John
By Kathi Macias

Murder. Could there be a more chilling word? Could it be any more horrible than to have a loved one killed, brutally and heartlessly, without obvious reason or motive? When Liz Peterson’s elderly mother is found viciously beaten to death in her home, Liz and her husband, Charles, along with their grown son, John, and teenage daughter, Sarah, are horrified beyond words. Their previously predictable, respectable lives seem to have vanished without a trace, as they struggle to make sense of a senseless act. 

And then a second blow—more devastating, if possible, than the first—rocks them to their core. John is arrested for his grandmother’s murder. 

As what’s left of the Peterson family begins to crumble under the weight of loss and accusation, the Petersons’ longstanding Christian faith is put to the test in a way they could never have imagined, and unconditional love is stretched to its limits. Will family ties and relationships withstand such a crushing blow, or will evil succeed in dividing and conquering this once close and inseparable family? 

ISBN-13  978-0-9797485-4-7
Trade paperback with study guide and resources list
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January 2010

The Heart’s Journey Home 
By Jen Stephens
Contemporary Women's Fiction

Home is where the heart is . . . or is it?

Kate Sterling’s heart was shattered with the unexpected death of her husband. Three years later, for Kate home is about loyalty and practicality. So she packs up what is left of her life in Nashville, Tennessee, and moves back to Harvest Bay in north central Ohio with her young daughter. Expecting her hometown to be the same sleepy little community she grew up in, she discovers that some things have changed.

First, Adam Sullivan, the once goof-off jock she avoided in high school, breaks down her initial defenses and becomes Kate’s confidante. Having experienced hardships of his own, he understands her in a way no one else can. He is gentle, insightful, compassionate . . . and miraculously makes her broken heart perform acrobats. But in order for their relationship to grow closer, Kate not only has to get past the pain of losing her husband, but she also has to deal with the fact that Adam is not a Christian. With her own faith on shaky ground, does she have the passion and fire to lead someone else to Christ?

Then Kate learns the town’s doctor is expanding his office and her brother-in-law, Nathan Sterling, is leaving his successful Vanderbilt practice to accept the open physician position, and she finds her head spinning. At first it’s almost like having a piece of her husband back . . . until Nathan confesses his love for her, leaving her emotions torn.

It isn’t until Kate suffers another devastating loss that she finally understands that the God who loves and cares for her has given her a second chance at love. Now she must make a decision: Is God leading her to a love linked to the past . . . or to one who will walk with her into the future? Which road will Kate take on The Heart’s Journey Home.