Eva Marie Everson Books in Order

Essays, poems and more than a hundred stories explore how ordinary people express Christian faith in everyday life. Contributions from sixty writers are grouped around family, neighborhoods, ministry and online encounters, emphasizing small acts with lasting significance.

Real couples recount the moments that led to their marriage proposals, from spontaneous declarations to carefully planned surprises. The collection includes well-known Christian figures and considers romance, commitment and the role of faith in beginning a shared life.

Couples describe how they honored their wedding promises through financial hardship, illness, infidelity and other difficult circumstances. Their accounts appear alongside Scripture, poetry and quotations, exploring how Christian faith can sustain commitment after the excitement of newlywed life fades.

Katie Morgan Webster appears to have everything: wealth, education, beauty and a loving marriage to a successful man. Beneath that comfortable life, however, dangers wait to undermine her happiness and draw her into a struggle shaped by faith.

After her husband disappears following a car bombing, Katie Webster takes charge of their luxury hotel company. Mysterious, expensive gifts raise hopes that he is alive, but they may instead signal that someone from her past has returned.

Women authors share the Bible passages that changed their lives and explain how they applied those words to ordinary circumstances. Their personal accounts explore hope, spiritual growth and experiences of divine faithfulness through brief reflections on Christian life.

Katie Webster takes a vacation from running the hotel company belonging to her missing husband, hoping to recover from a recent attack. Discovering that someone is following her brings renewed danger to her business, her future and her faith.

Eva Marie and Jessica Everson examine the pressures teenagers encounter at school and offer parents a Christian framework for responding. Topics include dating, prom, spring break, clothing, sex education, abstinence and the influence of popular media figures.

Drawing on interviews with teenagers, youth pastors, reviewers and cultural observers, Eva Marie and Jessica Everson examine sexual messages in popular media. They offer Christian parents ways to discuss those influences and guide their children toward faith-based views of sexuality.

Women of different generations gather at Grace Church in Summit View, Colorado, to share food and pray. Misinformation and misunderstandings complicate their efforts to help one another, testing the friendships forming around their weekly meals and shared Christian faith.

Lisa Leann's new advice column fuels rumors in Summit View, while club leader Evie struggles with the newcomer. Gossip, a changing outlook, disappointing romance and the youngest member's resurfacing past threaten the friendships within the Potluck Club.

This Christian guide connects caring for the body with caring for the spirit. Everson uses the idea of a spa to explore relaxation, rest, physical renewal and habits that help busy women make space for their own well-being.

Wedding preparations and romantic uncertainty stir up Summit View as the Potluck Club gathers again. Donna Vesey considers her future, while a dangerous mountain avalanche threatens Jack and Goldie Dippel, forcing the women to support one another through renewed troubles.

Eva Marie Everson and Miriam Feinberg Vamosh present an illustrated journey through Israel from Christian and Jewish perspectives. Photographs of forty biblical locations accompany Scripture, historical and archaeological context, and personal impressions of the places as they appear today.

The Potluck Club women launch a catering business in Summit View, but personal secrets threaten their partnership before it can settle. A troubled marriage, unexpected discoveries and a revealing return home complicate their efforts to turn shared meals into a livelihood.

Eva Marie Everson and Janice Elsheimer explain how to establish and sustain a writers' critique group. Drawing on the Word Weavers experience, they discuss building a community that offers useful feedback, encouragement, motivation and support for developing writers.

A filmmaker's documentary unexpectedly enters the Potluck Catering Club in a televised competition. Traveling from Colorado to New York, the women face fierce rivals and the pressures of reality television as they try to preserve their friendship and win a million dollars.

Jo-Lynn Hunter returns to Cottonwood, Georgia, to renovate her family's old home at her great-aunt's request. Seeking relief from a strained marriage, she uncovers troubling questions about her ancestors and the secrets Aunt Stella may still be protecting.

Fresh from boarding school in 1959, privileged Mariette Puttnam cannot decide what to do with her future. An encounter in the stairwell of her father's clothing factory introduces an unexpected romance that challenges her assumptions about the life ahead.

Back in Summit View after their television competition, the Potluck Catering Club confronts a shocking event that implicates one of its members. Meanwhile, a century-old tale of buried gold draws unwelcome strangers and creates another test of their friendship.

Divorced mother Kimberly Tucker retreats to her family's Cedar Key vacation home while her sons spend the summer with their father. Revisiting childhood memories and old loves, she begins examining the disappointments and mistakes that have shaped her adult life.

After her husband's murder, artist Samantha Crawford becomes consumed by despair and revenge. Reuniting with childhood friend Joe Bradford, whose work supports fatherless children, offers a different sense of purpose as she struggles between retaliation and the possibility of renewed hope.

Patsy Milstrap travels to Cedar Key on Florida's Gulf Coast, hoping distance will help her recover from present pressures and painful memories. Instead, her past follows her there, forcing her to confront unresolved family wounds and the need for forgiveness.

The Claybourne women have long treated Cedar Key as a refuge, but a concealed family truth threatens that peace. Anise, Kimberly, Jayme-Leigh, Heather and Ami confront misunderstandings and heartbreak as their separate lives move toward difficult conversations and possible reconciliation.

Everson identifies editing problems that can weaken fiction and nonfiction, including dull openings, unnecessary details, grammatical errors and shifting viewpoints. This short guide also considers word choice, audience, setting and the distinction between writing rules and matters of style.

Magazine heiress Ashlynne Rothschild is sent to Testament, North Carolina, to learn about life beyond her privileged upbringing. Working under ambitious small-town journalist William Decker, she clashes with his expectations while both pursue different visions of success.

Five young women sharing a Chicago apartment in the early 1950s discover a wedding dress that suits them all. Although none has a boyfriend, they buy it together, linking their friendships as each begins her own journey toward marriage.

After losing her job at a girls’ school, Charlie Dixon returns to her grandmother in North Carolina. Helping with a Christmas Carol production brings her into conflict with teacher Dustin Kennedy and challenges her understanding of community and forgiveness.

LeeAnn Jefferies recounts pursuing a fashion-modeling career while living with bipolar disorder. Written with Eva Marie Everson, her story follows psychiatric treatment, a Ford Modeling Agency contract, professional setbacks and her eventual efforts to challenge stigma surrounding mental illness.

In wartime Georgia, sixteen-year-old Alice-Ann declares her love for Mack before he enlists. When his letters stop arriving, caring for wounded veteran Carlton introduces a new attachment that complicates her hopes of marrying the man she has long cherished.

Felicia and Jackson Morgan face their first Christmas apart after twenty years of marriage. Sorting through ornaments gifted over those years, Felicia revisits their relationship and an old failure to forgive that may hold the key to reconciliation.

Allison Middleton eagerly accepts Westley Houser's proposal in 1977, unaware of a secret that will alter their marriage. Raising his daughter while facing infertility, she builds a family whose intertwined lives explore the influence and legacy of an ordinary woman.

Using twenty-six questions God asks biblical figures, Eva Marie Everson guides readers through reflection on their own lives and beliefs. These questions offer a way to understand themselves more deeply and develop greater intimacy with God.

Tamar, daughter of King David, endures abuse by her brother and betrayal within her family. Forced into exile, she struggles to recover her identity and imagine a life beyond the violence and silence that have shaped her world.

In 1962 Georgia, kindergarten teacher Beth Bettencourt keeps her heart guarded after her twin sister’s betrayal. The arrival of David Patrick Martin unsettles her carefully ordered life, challenging old bitterness and the future she has imagined for herself.