Losing Faith
Faith Brooks is a typical teenaged pastor’s kid, until she does the unthinkable and moves in with Gabe, an edgy musician and nonbeliever, seemingly closing the door on her past forever.
After Faith abandons them, the Brooks family is left to pick up the pieces, unsure if they’ll ever see her again. While coping with Faith’s unsettling desertion, each family member separately wrestles with feelings of betrayal, anger, and fear. The chaos that ensues threatens everything they have ever believed about themselves, God, and the world around them. As Faith struggles to find her way in a scary new world without a support system, her family desperately searches for the reasons why she was driven to commit such a treacherous act. In losing Faith, now the possibility looms that they might also lose their own.
Losing Faith is a compelling, modern-day tale of loss, love, and the enduring power of faith, as a teenage girl escapes her reality to explore a world devoid of God’s influence, leaving her heartbroken family to wonder why.
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Other Works
Finding Faith
Faith Brooks, prodigal daughter, has returned, attempting to put the past year of rebellion behind her. Remarkably, she’s been restored into the loving arms of her family and her old life. But past decisions have consequences—she is now a mere shell of herself—pregnant, penniless, and heartbroken. Choosing her baby’s life over Gabe, who she thought was her soulmate, was the right thing to do, yet she cannot easily relinquish her love for him.
Faith must decide whether to raise her daughter or give her up, while struggling to move on without Gabe. And what is her true calling now that the hope of a musical career has also been sacrificed? She may have crossed the bridge to get back on the right path, but she can’t help looking back and wondering if Gabe will ever be part of her life again. And if the daughter they created will ever know her father.
Finding Faith, the second in the Faith Brooks Series, is a story of overcoming. Faith proves what the love of family, friends, and especially God can do for one who feels hopeless and defeated. It is inspirational, thought-provoking, and evidence of the power of a faith-based life.
Keeping Faith
The culmination of their story points to a fairytale ending. And why shouldn’t they have one after all they’ve been through?
Gabe Scott and Faith Brooks were reunited more than a year after their relationship ended badly. In the interim, Faith had returned to her old life and was content. But there was still a part of her heart Gabe would always hold.
So, when he turned up on her doorstep a transformed man, and they rekindled their relationship, she thought since they’d already been through the fire, their future looked bright. Now he’s proposed and, with marriage and the reunion of their little family, they’re excited to move on.
But as they prepare for the wedding and seek to put their past behind them, it proves harder than expected. It seems the factors stacked against them during their engagement are following them into their marriage and Faith’s doubts are growing. Did they make a mistake? Was it too soon? Do they have too much baggage for this to work? The trust that had eroded between them the year they dated has barely had time to rebuild, and what is a relationship without trust?
Keeping their faith strong and their marriage together is draining them of the passion that once bound them so tightly. And Faith begins to struggle to recognize the person she’s becoming. Can they keep their faith in the Lord and each other together?
Amidst this turmoil, a tragic turn of events throws them into a tailspin of doubt and threatens to strip them of both their faith and their marriage. Suddenly, they’re faced with the question not of whether they’ll get their fairytale ending, but whether they’ll be together in the end at all.