Shady Springs Virtue

Even the darkest shadows can cast hope. After two miscarriages and desperate pleading with the Lord, Sonja Rossi thinks her prayers have been answered. She finds a baby on the banks of Shady Springs Lake and persuades her husband to take part in a plan to keep the child. She confides her delicate predicament to her close friend, Mercedes Lewis, but murder threatens to rock her cradle of hope. Mercedes Lewis should be living her best life. She started a new job and is planning her wedding. Her preparations are shaken when her first love, Garrett King, arrives in Shady Springs and strangely pretends they've never met. His wife has also confided a secret of her own. Can Mercedes keep up with all the pretense or will harboring Shady Springs' secrets sever her from those she loves the most?

They looked like normal people... But Shady Springs has always hidden its secrets well. Newlyweds Grant and Mercedes Ford are settling into the old parsonage when they decide to clean out the attic-recruiting Grant's sister Alice to help. They expect the usual dust and forgotten boxes-not cryptic notes, a mysterious figure in the woods, or an unexpected reunion with a man Alice thought she'd lost forever. Mark Wildmen never believed he'd get a second chance-at life, at love, or at redemption. But when Alice walks back into his world, he begins to wonder: Is grace still possible for someone with a past like his? As the four dig deeper into the mysteries of Shady Springs, long-buried truths begin to surface-and something ancient stirs in the shadows. Something ancient is stirring in the shadows of Shady Springs, and the question becomes clear: Is this a test of faith or a test of grace? Can the Ford family find redemption-or fall under a judgment long foretold?