Night Driving

A warm-hearted portrait of a simple event that encapsulates the bond between a father and a son. This warm and thoughtful story about a father and son on an all-night drive to the mountains is just right for Father's Day.

How do you know God is real? Zierman explores the gap between our sunny, faith fictions and a God who often seems hidden and silent. She had grown up with a fire-filled faith, but by age 30 there was just a buzzing silence where God's voice used to be. She loaded her two small children into the minivan and headed south in a last-ditch effort to find the Light. Against the backdrop of gas station coffee and screaming children, Zierman learned that sometimes you have to run away to find your way home.

Nathan Black is a bright but solitary young man. Bank teller by day, he takes long drives into the country during sleepless nights, plotting for a master plan, a get rich quick scheme. When one literally falls across his lap, however, Nathan realizes he is in for more than he ever bargained for, and that too succeed, he'll have to make the ultimate sacrifice of all. Will Nathan have the stamina, the courage, the willpower to pull it off? Read Night Driving and cheer for him as the pieces come together...or maybe cringe as they fall apart.

The Rules of the Road vs. The Laws of Attraction How do you spell disaster? For former army captain Boone Toliver, it's his sister's wedding to a man she hardly knows, and he'll die before he lets that happen. Boone has five days to get from Montana to Florida with an injured leg. And his only option is hitching a ride with his free-spirited neighbor, hairstylist Tara Duvall—whose body makes his mouth water and his libido burn. With each passing mile, the magnetic pull between them grows stronger, and Boone's trademark control is slipping away. But when his sex drive takes the wheel, will he be able to stop the wedding in time?

Journeys that begin in brokenness rarely follow a straight road to healing. There are twists and turns--and setbacks--on the path of repentance. Night Driving tells the story of a pastor and seminary professor whose moral failures destroyed his marriage and career, left his life in ruins, and sent him spiraling into a decade-long struggle against God. Forced to fight the demons of his past in the cab of the semi-truck he drove at night through the Texas oil fields, Chad Bird slowly began to limp toward grace and healing. Drawing on his expertise as an Old Testament scholar, Bird weaves together his own story, the biblical story, and the stories of fellow prodigals as he peels back the layers of denial, anger, addiction, and grief to help readers come face-to-face both with their own identities and with the God who alone can heal them.