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As Cynthia Wright's marriage implodes, she is forced to raise her teenage son, Isaiah, alone. The pressure of providing for them through her salon is a full-time job in itself. When Cynthia sees Isaiah pulling away and escaping into video games, tensions rise and prayers feel unanswered. Angry and hurt, Isaiah starts acting like the father who abandoned him, and Cynthia gives him an ultimatum while turning to her twin sister, Elizabeth Jordan, for support. Elizabeth enlists a seasoned prayer warrior who challenges Cynthia to pray boldly and believe God for the impossible.
Caught in the middle, Isaiah longs for respect, but sees no clear path to becoming a good man. Desperate for a job, he wanders into Moore Fitness, Inc. and encounters the owner, Joshua Moore, who introduces him to the concept of working for a coach rather than a boss. Needing the work, Isaiah reluctantly begins his mentoring process with Joshua. While Cynthia clings to hope, no one sees the coming storms brewing at the company and in Isaiah's heart.
A novelization based on the Kendrick Brothers' movie, The Forge is about the power of prayer, the transformation only God can achieve, and the lasting influence one person can have on others.
Grayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to right a terrible injustice—he just can't remember what it is.
Convinced of the importance of his mission, he embarks on a journey to the small West Virginia town of his childhood hoping he can put together the fractured pieces of his memory and set things right. But as the past becomes more clear, he wonders if God forgives the sins he can't remember.
A thought-provoking story with challenging themes, this book deals with issues like
Saving Grayson is a wrenching yet hopeful story of a journey to right unknown wrongs and of holding on to what you know even when it feels like everything is slipping away.
Chris' recent novel Saving Grayson is part of an exciting collaboration between Focus on the Family and Tyndale House Publishers, under the new imprint Focus Fiction. Edited by bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins, these titles deal with difficult issues and bring an unambiguous spiritual slant to the storytelling.
Jenkins describes the books as "page-turners that also pack a wallop. Readers will love that they're getting stories that will make them really think and perhaps even reconsider preconceived notions."
Find out more about Focus Fiction.
Mature Living Magazine recently featured a fiction piece from Chris titled "A Fierce Love," further exploring the characters in his novel Saving Grayson.
Grayson Hayes sat on the bench overlooking the lake, watching the sun dapple and ripple the water. A gentle breeze lifted tufts of his graying hair. He held a yellow legal pad in his left hand like it was a life preserver. "It's all in here," he said, his blue eyes twinkling.
Download the full story here: "A Fierce Love" from Mature Living Magazine
In Chris' novel A Piece of the Moon, much of the story revolves around characters who work at Country 16, a small-town radio station in the hills of West Virginia.
In a guest post at Tyndale's Crazy4Fiction website, Chris shares a personal story from his early days in radio and how it inspired a scene in his novel.
Find the guest post here: Where Fact and Fiction Meet: A Real-Life Radio Story and A Piece of the Moon
The Dogwood Collection bundles three of Chris' beloved novels into one eBook for a great value!
Walk the roads of West Virginia with Karin, Ruthie, June Bug, Billy, and other memorable friends in this recently released collection of Dogwood, June Bug, and Almost Heaven. Available on Amazon Kindle and other major e-readers.
"Solidly literary fiction with deep, flawed characters and beautiful prose."
— Novel Reviews on Dogwood