Bryan and Nicole Walker seem to have the perfect marriage. After five years of love and dedication to one another, they have everything that they could ever hope for...except a child. Bryan has convinced Nicole that her inability to conceive isn't a problem for him and he proves it in his undying love and passion for her.
Nicole finally accepts the fact that she may never have a child with her husband and finds peace and contentment in the love that they share. Then, in walks Tricia Smart, a fiery woman from Bryan's college days. And when she walks into their lives, she doesn't arrive alone. With her, she brings a twelve-year-old boy with eyes and a smile just like Bryan's.
Nicole's world is crushed when she hears that Bryan fathered a child with a one-night-stand in his freshman year. Despite the hurt and horror that this situation creates, Nicole is determined not to let it destroy her marriage and she resolves to embrace the boy and treat him as her own child.
Tricia, however, is determined not to make this new transition in the couple's life easy as she makes demands on Bryan where the child is concerned and torments Nicole with harassment and threats.
A marriage that was once unshakable is put to the ultimate test. Is their love strong enough to survive?
Crossing Jhordan's River
Since childhood, native Trinidadian, Jhordan Adams has gotten little else than heartache from the women he's loved. After witnessing his mother's selfish act of suicide, Jhordan is left to grow up struggling with issues of love. After his first wife abandons him and their young daughter for what looks like a better life, he's left to battle with issues of trust. Now, his new wife, Kelli is forced to pay the price for the misdeeds of other women she's never even met.
Instead of embracing the wife he passionately desires, Jhordan fights his affections for her in fear that Kelli, too, will break his heart. But his lack of attentiveness begins to build a raging
waterfall between them, and in her search for answers, Jhordan's coldness sends Kelli floating right in the arms of another man for understanding...and comfort.
Jhordan is left with two choices. Either he can take the advice of his pastor and other spiritual counselors and confront his greatest fear of completely loving and trusting another woman, or he can keep running away from a past he's never faced and lose Kelli forever.
What's a man to do when either choice could lead to another devastating heartbreak?
Will Kelli's prayers give her the strength to cross Jhordan's river, or has he already made the body of water between them so wide that she'll choose to swim in another direction?
One Prayer Away
Seven years ago, Mitchell Andrews made the biggest mistake of his life. Turning to alcohol to drown the massive grief and guilt surrounding the loss of the only parents he'd ever known, his life of love and happiness took a dangerous nosedive. When his wife abruptly leaves in fear of her life after being repeatedly struck during his drunken rages, it's the wake up call he needs and Mitchell struggles to find sobriety; but for his marriage, it's too little too late.
In his search for soberness, Mitchell makes the greatest decision of his life when he meets Christopher Jackson who introduces him to a new existence in Jesus Christ. Now, rehabilitated in mind, body, and soul, and as a partner at the
notable accounting firm of Jackson, Jackson & Andrews, Mitchell has renewed purpose and a revised plan - a plan that includes a mission to win back the wife he's not seen since he broke her heart. But when his friendship with Christopher turns sour and Mitchell's ex-wife can't even look at him without fear in her eyes, his life comes full circle and the bottle is right there to once again offer him comfort. It's been three years since his last taste of vodka; but in his weakest moment, is he strong enough to refuse?
Mitchell knows that he has a fight on his hands, but as soon as his eyes meet Virtue's for the first time in seven long years, he knows that the prize is worth the battle. Constant rejection tempts Mitchell to count up the cost and pay the price of defeat, but reminders of the power of prayer, won't allow him to give up just yet.
Fifteen Years
Josiah "JT" Tucker, the son of an absent father and a substance dependent mother, spent most of his formative years in the custody of the State, sleeping in the strange beds that his many foster homes provided. At the age of fourteen, after six years in the same home and having finally experienced a sense of what love and stability felt like, JT was abruptly taken from the foster family that he had grown to love (the Smiths) and returned once again to his neglectful and irresponsible birth mother.
Because of the spiritual seeds that had been implanted in him by the Smiths, JT manages to endure the hardships of living with his birth mother and not only finish high school at the top
of his class, but go on to complete college, graduating magna cum laude.
Now a senior manager in a Fortune 500 company, driving a high performance car, and living in a nice home, Josiah has the outward appearance of a corporate executive who has it all. However, on the inside, there has never been a man so empty, broken, and tormented, and Josiah sets out on a mission to find the only people who he knows can fill the void.
Fifteen years after being taken from Thomas and Joanne Smith (his foster parents), and his foster siblings, Sammy and Patrice, Josiah seeks to reconnect to his "life-line" in hopes of also finding himself and a renewed faith in God. But he finds more than he bargained for, and the reality of it all has the capability to make him a more tortured soul than he ever was before his mission began.
A lot about the people you love (and way your heart loves them) can change in fifteen years...
