VanLiere, Donna

Author Donna VanLiere shares how her sexual abuse, struggles with infertility, and the adoptions of her three children taught her about God's grace in everyday life.

Robert, a busy attorney on the verge of divorce, has an eye-opening, life-changing experience when he encounters a young boy in the midst of the bustling Christmas shopping crowd searching for exactly the right present for his mother who is dying of cancer.

Meeting a troubled five-year-old girl during the holiday season, social worker Patricia Addison and her husband, Mark, find themselves working through past sorrows and reevaluating their faith.

Nine-year-old Jane Gable's life changes in 1947 when her abusive, alcoholic father dies and the first African-American family, the Turners, moves to her neighborhood in Morgan Hill, Tennessee, and things become even more complicated when her pregnant mother agrees to take young Milo Turner into her home after his family is killed in a house fire.