Vanessa Davis Griggs

After seven years of marriage, Paris and Andrew are childless, and though Paris is determined to adopt an orphaned nine-year-old, her husband and father seem to be dead set against it.

"Vanessa is a superb storyteller." —ReShonda Tate Billingsley
"I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style. She is one of a kind." —Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
Teen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué behavior is more than their mother can handle. Enter the girls' 75-year-old churchgoing grandmother, Ma Ray, who takes charge of the young women. She's determined to turn...

Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she's dreamed of for so long. There's just one complication: she's not sure who the father is. Apparently, after a night of drinking with her ex-coworker and ally Darius Connors, it could be him. Considering her husband's track record, chances are it is. Still, Paris prays it's not Darius, and decides to keep quiet about her worries. Especially because Darius isn't ready to give up on his crumbling...

"Memory Patterson has been hiding from her family for much too long. Her instinct has always been to run, and never more so than when a chance meeting with Pastor Landris and his pregnant wife, Johnnie Mae, leads to a shocking revelation as Johnnie Mae discloses the truth about Memory's mother."--P. [4] of cover.

Gabrielle Mercedes has dreamed of being a dancer since she was a little girl but her life takes a very different turn. Feeling a void she can't fill Gabrielle finds salvation in church and decides to start anew. Learning that her church has a dance ministry she's thrilled to have her first love back in her life. Then she meets handsome Zachary Wayne Morgan, and everything seems to be falling into place - until a past secret threatens to tear it all...

When her husband gets a job with David, a gospel megastar, Brianna, a lonely young wife seeking solace in religious studies, finds a connection with David that causes her to question her faith, fidelity, and the sovereignty of God.

Pastor George Landris and his one true love Johnnie Mae have faced many obstacles on their journey to the altar, and now they are finally about to be married. But while Landris is planning the wedding, his fiancée gets wrapped up in the mystery of a valuable necklace and a mix-up in a hospital nursery that occurred more than 50 years ago. Johnnie Mae knows that it all has something to do with the enigmatic Sarah Flemming, an elderly woman she met...