Between Stations: A Novel of Small Prayers, Second Chances, and the God Who Makes All Things New

Mara has spent years trying to be easier to love.She has learned how to soften her words, watch her husband’s moods, swallow her feelings, and keep the peace in a marriage that looks respectable from the outside but leaves her quietly disappearing within it. There are no bruises. No dramatic scenes anyone else can point to. Just years of walking on eggshells, second-guessing herself, and wondering why love feels so much like loneliness.Then, on a train between New York Penn Station and Newark Penn Station, Mara overhears a young man speaking about women with cruel, vulgar contempt. His words stir something in her so dark it frightens her. Twenty-four hours later, standing at her kitchen sink, she whispers a prayer she does not even want to pray:God, speak to his heart.But Mara has her own broken heart to face.As her marriage unravels, she must wrestle with the questions so many women carry in silence: Am I failing God if I leave? Will people judge me? Was it really that bad if no one else saw it? Who am I if I stop trying to hold everything together?With her best friend Jill beside her — offering humor, honesty, prayer, and the kind of sisterhood that makes survival feel possible — Mara begins the painful and holy work of starting over. Through divorce, loneliness, shame, courage, and quiet healing, she rediscovers the woman she thought she had lost.And along the way, she learns that God is not waiting for her on the other side of wholeness.He is near in the breaking.Between Stations is a heartfelt Christian novel about emotional control, healing after divorce, small prayers, faithful friendship, and the God who makes all things new.It is a story for every woman who has ever wondered if surviving meant failing, if starting over meant disappointing God, or if one small act of obedience could still matter.Because no prayer whispered in love is ever wasted.And no life is too broken for God to redeem. Read more