These are true poems of the heart and from the heart which look at the nature of hope and the futility of despair. Poems related here are full of naturalistic observations as well as commentary on the state of the world. These show how we must keep hope alive in a dark world around us.

Included are prayers by: Dr. Mark I. Bubeck, Dr. Neil T. Anderson, Brother Andrew, Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Dr. Fred C. Dickason, Rev. Paul Estabrooks, Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer, Stormie Omartian, Dr. Ray Pritchard, Dr. Marcus Warner, and others. The Bible is clear — from the moment we draw our first breath, we are at war. Satan hates us and wants to destroy us — because the Lord loves us. A supernatural battle is waging all around us and if you are not a warrior, you will be a casualty. Christians m...

Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade.   No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins.  Or does it?   Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-two writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the mythical, fantastical, and futuristic bonds between life and death.  Learn the cost of mortality, the perils—and joys...

Conor McBride. A man with skills he never wanted to learn...which doesn't mean he won't use them.Conor McBride is a man who’s lost everything, betrayed by the person he trusted most. Now he’s got a job he never asked for, deadly skills he never wanted to learn, and a past he wants to escape. But no matter how far he runs, trouble has a way of finding him, and from one adventure to the next, he often finds he’s not the only one keeping secrets.The Conor McBri...

It's 1952, and change is coming quickly to a rugged island off the west coast of Ireland. It's coming even faster to the two young people about to meet there.On the Great Blasket Island, with most of its inhabitants lost to emigration and those who remain growing elderly, the members of a close-knit community are preparing to quietly surrender what a century of Atlantic storms could not rip from their grasp.Residents in the coastal towns al...

MI6 has trained him to find a man who took everything from him. They have their own reasons, but he has only one: to discover why the brother he trusted betrayed him.Conor McBride is a newly trained operative with skills he never wanted to learn, but he needs all of them for a dangerous mission that leads from the tumultuous streets of Mumbai to the snowy mountains of Kashmir. He's chasing a criminal he knows all too well - his own brother - racing to give him one ...

Book 1 in the Action-Packed Conor McBride Series!Conor McBride is a man with deadly skills he never wanted to learn. That doesn't mean he won't use them.The matter is urgent, and your assistance will be required almost immediately, for an extended stretch of time…When a British intelligence officer shows up on his farm to deliver this message, Conor McBride doesn’t trust the man, or the motives that brought MI6 to the west ...

A tale as heartwarming and bright as the Emerald Isle itself.When a stranger from Dublin comes to his coastal village looking for a boat ride to the Great Blasket Island, Tom McBride isn’t anxious for the job. He has enough to handle, working the farm that will one day be his inheritance, and dealing with a contentious father who’s threatening to withhold it. The stranger is hard to refuse, though; he's a government officer on an official mission. Tom agrees to the trip, curious ...

An Iranian, a Bohemian, and an Irishman walk into a bar. It's not a joke. It’s Conor McBride’s latest mission.Conor McBride has made a bargain he may live to regret, if he manages to live through it, at all. Lured by the chance to reboot his career as a violinist, he’s accepted a mission to Prague, agreeing to extract a defecting Iranian agent in exchange for the chance to perform while he’s there. His boss has promised a simple, stitched-up mission, but as he migh...

An Iranian, a Bohemian and an Irishman walk into a bar. It’s not a joke. It’s Conor McBride’s latest assignment.Conor McBride has made a bargain he may live to regret, if he manages to live through it, at all. Lured by the chance to reboot his career as a violinist, he’s accepted a mission to Prague in exchange for the chance to perform while he’s there. His boss has promised a simple, stitched-up mission, but as he might have expected, it quickly unravels into cha...

Conor McBride is a man on the run, haunted by enemies he's never met, and a past he can't leave behind.At a farmhouse inn tucked into a scenic corner of Vermont, a mysterious guest has checked in for an extended stay. Conor McBride, a tired-eyed Irish wanderer, arrives shouldering a violin, a duffel bag, and the burden of traumatic events he won’t discuss. His recent past is as hazy as his future, but the inn’s owner can relate to that. Kate Fitzpatrick has lived t...

An escapade of stolen treasure, with deadly consequences.As part-time operatives, Conor McBride and Kate Chatham are trained for unexpected developments, but their current troubles have nothing to do with undercover work. Overwhelmed by meddling relatives, an engagement party they didn’t want, and their own short tempers, they’d welcome any stress-relieving antidote. They just didn’t expect it to appear in the form of stolen treasure, buried in a bloody mound of sn...