Born deaf, nine-year-old Lily was hidden away from the world by her margrave father. But her life changes forever when the fabled adventuring party known as the Crimson Vow saves her home from a bandit attack. Lily emerges from the encounter with her hearing miraculously restored, the ability to converse with nanomachines, and the power of magic! Taking only her attendant, Lafine, with her, she sets out to seek adventure in the great wide world. Let the legend of Lily Lockwood begin!

A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

ADVENTURES WITH ELVES! The Crimson Vow takes on a job escorting Dr. Clairia back to the elven village to reunite with her family. From there, the girls dig deeper into the secrets shrouding the world’s origin as they venture into a neighboring country and run into a fresh batch of abnormal monsters. What sinister force moves these strange beasts? And are the Crimson Vow ready to find out?

When gifted student Kurihara Misato dies right after her high school graduation, she meets God and has a peculiar request: to make her abilities average in the next life. But few things--especially wishes--ever go quite as planned. As she navigates her new life as a ten-year-old girl in a magic-filled world, she realizes God has a unique definition of average!

When it comes to reincarnation, most people hope for a better life---except for recent high school graduate, Kurihara Misato. She wants an average life! Unfortunately for her, thanks to God's... interesting interpretation of "average," she is reborn as a young girl with incredible magical powers. Can she achieve the normal life she's always longed for or will her not-so-average abilities betray her?

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

TIME TO SHINE The Wonder Trio debut their adventuring careers with a splash, while the Crimson Vow rescue a mother and child from peril on their journey. When this brings the wrath of a corrupt band of merchants down on the Crimson Vow’s heads, however, it’s time for the most business-savvy of the girls to take the stage and strut her stuff!