What does one get when four young women with different morals, personalities, and upbringings are thrown into a life or death situation? Jackie is a young, naive, depressed young lady. She comes from a home, and parents who never wanted or loved her. Peach is a middle aged Christian woman. Her parents were absent most of her life, so she was raised by her grandma. Jewel is a young women who was born to two very wealthy parents. Jewel has always been pampered with the finer things in life. She feels like if you have money you have everything. Giselle is a young talented women. Her mother discovers she has the voice of an angel at a very early age. All she wants is to fulfill her mother's promise of becoming a singer, but it's easier said than done. These four women board the Paradise cruise ship for what they thought would be the vacation of a lifetime. They had every intention of having a great time, when in the middle of the night tragedy strikes. They started out as strangers, but as there situation becomes tense and desperate, they find out a lot about each other. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, And The Beautiful....."

"Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--

Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he was born with a girl’s body. With his new public access radio show gaining popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parents. His entire future is threatened when several violent guys find out that Gabe the DJ is also Elizabeth from school.

At just twelve years of age, Kathy met Kris, age fifteen, and it was love at first sight. Before her lay the journey of engagement and marriage to a man who would become an influential leader at Bethel Church; raising children while being part of one of the most influential Spirit-filled networks on the globe; and her own involvement in leadership--sparking a movement with her husband that has impacted much of the world. In this unfiltered, messy, and exciting narrative, Bethel Church matriarch Kathy Vallotton traces her life with Kris as she recounts their early married life, his heart-wrenching nervous breakdown, troubling financial setbacks, the jarring experience of living with a prophet, learning to develop a healthy kingdom culture at home--and how she grew to trust God in the midst of it all.

The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism.

As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.