ACFW Book Club
The ACFW Book Club gives fans of Christian fiction the opportunity to communicate with each other, chat with ACFW authors, and discuss books.
Book Club participants are invited to join an e-mail group set up to facilitate announcements and host discussions about the current reading selection. Members will be eligible for monthly free book drawings. To join, send an e-mail to ACFWbookclub+subscribe@groups.io or visit https://groups.io/g/ACFWbookclub.
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What happens when good and evil collide?
Four pastors’ wives–turned amateur sleuths are playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with a suspected killer in Appalachia in Georgia Curtis Ling’s suspenseful, contemporary Christian, fast-paced thriller, But There Were Signs novel.Ally Marshall leads the sisterhood of the Pastors’ Wives Club. They meet every third Thursday evening at the Mockingbird Coffee House in Spring Valley, Tennessee, a small town with a strong religious presence. These women share a common bond and rely on their like-minded friends in their unique challenges and joys of ministry life. The coffee house, sheltered under the high cathedral ceiling of an old church, offers the historic charm of a sacred place and becomes a haven of tranquility—until the unthinkable happens. One of their own is found dead.
The clock is ticking as these women band together, stopping for nothing as they race to solve their beloved friend’s mysterious death before time runs out and the killer gets away with murder. In their relentless search for truth, they discover a dark secret that they believe is the key to proving the “accidental death” was murder.
But suspicion does not solve the mystery. Their investigation takes them out away from their safe comfort zone and into the outskirts of a forbidden zone of a killer’s obsession, which fueled the motivation for the murder and will change their lives forever when he attempts to conceal his crime by killing again. With unimaginable and perilous days ahead, only the faith they cling to and their friendships will carry them through.
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Zara is trapped in a lonely, loveless marriage with an obsessed gambler. Yearning for freedom and love, her only solace comes in stolen tender moments with Auriga Maximus, famed charioteer and her husband’s slave. Faced with a heart-wrenching choice between duty and desire, will she cling to comfort as a rich wife or risk her own life?
As Jerusalem teeters on the edge of rebellion, Zara navigates betrayal, the stirrings of love, and the shadows of her past. Along her journey, she encounters iconic figures—Lazarus, Mary Magdalene, Miriam the mother of Yeshua, and Herodias.
From the Temple courts to the roar of the Hippodrome, A Certain Mercy blends romance, suspense, and biblical truths—a moving story of second chances.
A story of a woman immortalized in the gospels. A story of forgiveness of others and forgiveness of self. A story of the path to eternal love and eternal life.