Needing to escape from a painful family situation, college junior Matt Tucker jumps at a chance to lead horse rides at a Mexican Christian summer camp with his uncle. He isn't sure how he feels about God at the moment, but anything is better than watching his parents come apart. What he doesn't bargain for is teammates. As he shares his summer with an uncle who knows too many of his secrets, a guy who's grieving, a seminary student, and a girl who...

The stories that saved him might swallow him… On a quiet summer morning in a tiny rural town, eight-year-old Riven Smith disappeared from his yard. Nobody heard a thing. His ten-year-old next-door neighbor Lily had always considered Riven a pest, following her around all summer asking questions and telling stories about fairies and gnomes. Worse, he was a weird pest whose mom didn't believe in phones or eating meat or snack cakes. However, once...

Seth has always fixed everyone else. Now it's his turn to be broken. Returning home from a mission trip to Mexico, seminary student Seth Roberts is tired, grieving, and wondering what God is doing in his life. To make matters worse, he has promised to help friend and college student Tom Van der Haas host a party of teenage girls at Tom's uncle's beach house for spring break. He hopes to tell his troubles to his best friend Shawn Carpenter, who is...

Drift down the river and enjoy a trio of novels from a simpler place and time, now combined into one volume. Follow three sets of youngsters as they grow up in the isolated communities on the river, facing the dangers of the swamp and learning about life, responsibility, and love along the way. In Swamp Rats, Cree and Princess lose their mothers and grow up nearly alone in the swamps, enduring infrequent visits from abusive and absentee dads. Raising...

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Matt Tucker and Dana Schneider, as seen through the eyes of Tony Carpenter. Last seen in Courting the Clearwaters, Shawn Carpenter's little brother Tony is now in high school, and he's tired of living in his perfect big brother's shadow. He wants to be his own person, but honestly, right now he's not doing that well as his own person. His family loves him, but they also tend to forget he exists, and the...

Rescuing Tacy comes at a price… Her history is a secret. She doesn't know phones, videogames, even snack cakes. She's underweight, afraid of everything, and now his next-door neighbor's foster daughter. As a computer geek who never talks to girls, sophomore Cody Highland didn't expect to be asked to play guardian to a teenage girl on her first day of school, but the neighbors ask anyway, putting their most precious possession in his hands. He says...

Adventure, danger, romance… Welcome to the Boys of Summer, a contemporary Christian series for teens and anyone who appreciates the challenge of stepping into adulthood. This collection includes the second four books of the eleven-book series. All I Want for Christmas-Unable to get home to the mountains for Christmas, Matt Tucker goes home with Tom Van der Haas for the holidays. Nothing goes as planned, and before the holiday season is over, Matt...

For college junior Shawn Carpenter, life was work, family, and paying penance for sins of the past. Then a friend introduces him to God and invites him to join a college youth group, and his world turns upside down. Suddenly he's surrounded by new friends, has a new job, and finds himself attracted to the unobtainable boss's daughter, Jenny Clearwater. He thinks his life is looking up, but soon he sends his best friend away in anger, faces charges...

Every time he thought it couldn't get worse, it did. After losing my big brother in a car crash, my family moved to a small town to start over. As if grieving wasn't enough, now I had to find new friends, and in true small town fashion, everyone knew about us and nobody wanted to get close. Loneliest summer ever. The only good thing about the move was Justin, my first friend. Instead of treating me like a fragile flower, he trounced me at ping pong,...