BOOKS | Stephanie Cardel

Into the Crashing Waves
COMING OCT. 6TH!

Sixteen-year-old Dante Edmonds finally feels like his life is finally coming together. His foster dad wants to adopt him. He has an amazing girlfriend. He’s on track to get a scholarship to MIT because of his mad computer skills. Then his girlfriend’s ex frames him for possession, and his mom’s past comes back to haunt them both.

Dante’s hope for a future comes to a screeching halt, along with his trust in God. He meets a guy in juvie with a plan to escape and lots of answers, but Dante doesn’t want a life on the run. He wants revenge.

A Christian YA, modern, American re-imagining of The Count of Monte Cristo with a redemptive twist.

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This Isn't Shakespeare by Stephanie Cardel

To be or not to be…a professional dancer. Seventeen-year-old Madison is a hopeless romantic who loves quoting Shakespeare and dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer—a dream she hides, afraid of disappointing her mom and her boyfriend. But when her dreams fall apart, she believes it’s a sign from God that she should commit to her boyfriend and make a new dream.

When she realizes God wouldn’t give her a sign that points her to sin, the happily-ever-after she’s planned crumbles. Now Madison must confront the lies she’s told herself and all the red flags she’s ignored. In the process, she begins to understand that seeking God’s will may not lead to a perfectly scripted ending—but it might just lead to something real.

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With our sex-saturated society, many girls end up in sexual relationships, and when it ends, start believing they aren’t good enough anymore for God to love them, making them ripe to be manipulated by a narcissist. They also romanticize relationships and have trouble recognizing when they are in a toxic relationship, sometimes believing they deserve bad treatment. The story speaks to these hard issues like no other. The biggest takeaway is that God forgives all those who come to Him in repentance, and we need to trust in His plan, accept His forgiveness and live for His glory to find our happily ever after.

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