Before he became Dean Sam Crawford—mentor, preacher, and pillar of faith—he was a broken man lying on church steps.
After the Civil War steals his joy and his wife, Sam drifts into a darkness he can’t outrun. Grief becomes his companion, guilt his shadow, and the streets his only home… until Catherine, a kindhearted member of the Ladies’ Aid Society, dares to stop for him when no one else will. With a coat, a warm meal, and a stubborn spark of compassion, she offers him a mercy he cannot understand—and certainly doesn’t believe he deserves.
One night of reckoning.One simple sermon.One act of grace that changes everything.
Discover the tender, redemptive love story that began the Grace & Gravel Roads series—and the moment God began rebuilding a broken man into the shepherd he was meant to become.
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