Donna VanLiere Books in Order

In the conclusion of the trilogy, world leader Victor Quade seemingly rises from the dead and is worshiped as a god. When he demands a universal mark of loyalty for buying, selling, or medical care, Emma, Zerah, and their scattered friends race to protect others and cling to promised hope.

Picking up after the global disappearances, this sequel finds Emma struggling to survive in a devastated New York while missiles and invading armies threaten Israel. As two mysterious witnesses appear in Jerusalem and a charismatic leader offers peace, Emma and Zerah must decide whom to trust and how to endure.

Emma Grady is at work in New York City when patients and coworkers suddenly vanish, subways shut down, and graves across the world are found open. As chaos spreads from Brooklyn to Israel, Emma searches for loved ones and wrestles with the possibility that ancient prophecies are unfolding.

Two women, separated by forty years, are linked by a handmade kitchen table and a box of recipe cards. In 1972, Joan Creighton cooks through her mother’s recipes while battling cancer, and in 2012, newly pregnant Lauren Mabrey uses the same cards to build the home she never had.

Amy Denison keeps her life carefully safe until seven-year-old Maddie, a foster child at Glory’s Place, decides to play matchmaker. As Maddie nudges Amy toward a kind teacher at Grandon Elementary, Amy must decide whether to risk her heart again and trust that love can heal old wounds.

After growing up in foster care, twenty-year-old Lauren Gabriel dreads another lonely holiday and drives aimlessly to avoid going home. A car accident strands her in Grandon, where volunteering at a fundraiser for Glory’s Place gives her a glimpse of the family and purpose she has always wanted.

In the town of Grandon, two single parents, a pregnant teen, and a hopeful young couple are each facing private heartbreak. Drawn together to stage a makeshift church Nativity, they begin to share burdens, take risks, and discover that even in the dark there is light and hope.

In 1950s rural Tennessee, independent Ivorie Walker expects to live out her days alone on the family farm. When a half-starved boy begins stealing from her garden, she tracks him into the hills and discovers abuse and neglect that will demand more courage than she imagined.

New to town, Gretchen Daniels reaches out to her reclusive neighbor, Melissa, after Melissa’s estranged mother dies. Sorting through the woman’s ruined apartment, they uncover a brief handwritten note about a missing sibling, sending both women on an emotional search for family, forgiveness, and belonging.

This short, illustrated book retells the Nativity from the perspective of Mary and Joseph’s eighty-mile trek to Bethlehem. Simple prose and watercolor artwork invite readers to slow down and ponder the hardship, courage, and hope at the heart of the Christmas story.

Christine Eisley is a single mother juggling unreliable childcare, an ex-husband who uses their kids as leverage, and the threat of losing her job. After she secretly saves an elderly woman’s life, a search for the unknown Good Samaritan sets Christine on a path toward stability and love.

In this candid memoir, Donna VanLiere traces her journey through childhood wounds, miscarriage, infertility, and the long road to adoption. With humor and honesty, she shows how disappointment and unanswered questions became the place where she encountered God’s presence and learned to see grace in ordinary days.

Gloria has spent years quietly helping people in need while honoring a private promise to her late husband. When a prickly neighbor moves in and a lonely security guard befriends a struggling boy, their lives tangle together and reveal how second chances can arrive at Christmastime.

In 1947 Tennessee, nine-year-old Jane Gable watches the first Black family move into her all-white town, then sees tragedy strike their farm. When the Gables take in young Milo Turner, Jane’s family must confront prejudice, poverty, and what it really means to be neighbors.

Social worker Patricia Addison and her husband, Mark, are still grieving the loss of their son when Patricia brings home a five-year-old girl who has nowhere else to go. As Emily’s questions about heaven pierce their defenses, the couple slowly rediscovers joy and purpose at Christmas.

Years after the events of The Christmas Shoes, Nathan Andrews is a third-year medical student wrestling with doubt and burnout. Through a courageous young runner with a heart defect and a brave little boy, he discovers how sacrifice, loss, and unexpected grace can reshape a calling.

This devotional-style book imagines what it might have been like to walk beside Jesus in first-century Israel. Through narrative retellings of Gospel scenes, readers see familiar stories through the eyes of the apostles and are invited to reflect on his power and compassion.

On a snowy Christmas Eve, work-obsessed attorney Robert meets Nathan, a boy racing to buy shoes for his dying mother. Their brief encounter forces Robert to face what he has been losing at home and what a small act of generosity can change.

Part story collection, part gift book, Sheltering Trees shares true accounts of friendship woven around the image of trees that offer shade in a storm. Short reflections, quotes, and song-inspired meditations celebrate friends who stand beside us when life turns hard.