Steps to the Beach

A SOUL-STIRRING NOVEL ABOUT FINDING REFUGE IN AN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD.

WITH A CLICK OF THE MOUSE, Adele Walker buys her dream beach house online and packs up for Sanibel Island, Florida. Everyone, including her husband, thinks she's gone off the deep end. But empty-nester Adele is burnt out, sick and tired of worrying about everything under the sun. The imaginary go-to happy place in her mind is no longer enough. She's ready...more than ready to set sail somewhere real, catch her second wind, and claim whatever treasures life has yet to offer.

The falling-apart house on stilts isn't what she expected. But as she goes about fixing it up, the wonders of the sanctuary island off the Gulf Coast of Florida-from its birds to its seashells to a Bible that belonged to her mother showing up at her front door, with letters written to God tucked within its pages-minister to her in extraordinary ways.

• Would she rather live like an aging woman of the world with most of life behind her, or a daughter of GOD with all of eternity yet ahead? So launches her purposeful steps back to a place she loved as a child-the one true resting spot for her soul, a place of God's revitalizing love.