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Unlikely Praise is now available!
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Blurb:  Candi Canaberry has been the worship leader at Cornerstone Fellowship since the doors opened more than two years ago.   A lifetime church musician and instructor of music at the local community college, Candi has dedicated her life to praise and worship.  When Cornerstone explodes into mega-church territory, Candi is sure she’ll be the one to take her team to the next level…isn’t she the obvious choice?  Apparently not.  Church leadership has other ideas when they instruct her to take on a partner and share her duties.  But a one-time rocker with a metallic guitar and zero worship experience?  God must be kidding.
Recently saved Samuel “Shade” Blackledge is new to Cornerstone Fellowship.  He’s convinced a strong church family is what will help keep his head above water as he turns from things of the past and builds a new life.  An ex-rock guitarist, Shade is shocked when the pastor suggests he might be just what the worship team needs.  But could God really want a tattooed veteran of the club scene?  And what about his other secrets - not the least of which is a baby girl he’s never seen?Worship practice has never been this eventful as Candi and Shade work their way toward each other… and Unlikely Praise.

Then Later On...
Unexpected Wedding - Rocky and Gia's story.
Blurb: Rocky Lionakis has been a wheelchair user since a two-story fall in college resulted in a spinal cord injury and ended his promising football career. Finding the Lord just two years ago, he plays bass guitar in Cornerstone Fellowship’s worship band and shares his testimony every week with the campers at Towering Pines summer church camp. At peace with his chair and settled into a boring but successful career in technology, Rocky wants only for companionship. He’s tried everything and wonders how bad could he be when even a disabled dating service can’t find him a prospective mate. He’s all but given up when stunning camp counselor, Gia Rinaldi, enters his life. He’s crazy about her, but should he accept her startling and desperate proposal after just one date?

Lifelong preacher’s kid and occasional wild child, Giavanna Rinaldi, is running out of options. A relationship mistake with a controlling and emotionally abusive man has left her with a permanent consequence. She is six weeks pregnant. Gia knows God will forgive her. He has always stuck with her on her bumpy faith journey, but what about her cherished summer job at Camp Towering Pines and her plan to start graduate studies in Christian child psychology in the fall? And what about Rocky, the handsome ex- football hero she started to date before she even knew about the tiny treasure she carries? Fearing for her job and her future – not to mention her parents’ reaction and the possible reappearance of the baby’s father – she hatches an insane but practical plan. If she and Rocky were to marry... Gia knows two wrongs don’t make a right – but is it possible two desperate hearts do?

Max and Violet's story - details coming soon!

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