This Collection bundles all five titles from the Firstborn Series of Karen Kingsbury’s beloved Baxter Family Drama into one volume for a great value! #1 Fame: In this first book, Hollywood A-lister Dayne Matthews returns to LA after his shocking discovery in Karen’s bestselling novel Reunion. Though his life is filled with fame, fortune, and paparazzi, his heart is pulling him toward a woman and a family who have no idea how their lives are tied to his. Meanwhile, Katy Hart has finally found contentment as the director of Christian Kids Theater in Bloomington, Indiana. But that changes in an instant when she meets Dayne Matthews and he promises a future she left in her past. #2 Forgiven: Dayne Matthews is at the top of the Hollywood list, working on what may be his best movie yet. Still, he feels empty and unfocused, aching for real love and the family he’ll never know. Then a friend tells him about a teaching center and a way to become like God. Is this the answer Dayne’s been searching for? Back in Bloomington, Katy Hart struggles to walk the Christian Kids Theater group through a devastating tragedy, and John Baxter reconnects with an old friend and shares a buried secret. #3 Found: Driven by his wife’s dying wish—to find their firstborn son—John Baxter sets about the search of a lifetime. But when the answers finally come, they shake John to his core. Can he walk away, or will he decide it’s time to let the truth come to light? Meanwhile, Dayne Matthews receives crushing news and finds wisdom and comfort from a long-lost friend and then Katy Hart, the girl Dayne can’t seem to forget. Will he find the strength to face a future laced with loss, and will that strength lead him to the greatest love of all? #4 Family: In the wake of finding his firstborn son, John Baxter looks for a way to tell his other children the truth about a secret he’s kept from them all their lives. At the same time, a sensational Hollywood trial brings Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart together again, this time in a very public way. Just when it seems they have a chance at love, doubts and presumed scandals place them farther apart than ever. In the midst of this crisis, one truth is clear for all of them—never in their lives has family been more important. #5 Forever: Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood’s Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now she and the Baxter family must travel to Los Angeles to sort through their options. While paparazzi hound them, Luke Baxter wrestles with feelings that have troubled him for nearly a year. Ultimately, the Baxters must pull together one last time in an act of service and love to help Katy and Dayne find what they’ve always been looking for—a chance at forever.
Baby Ryan woke and stretched his arms out from beneath the blanket. Kari held him up closer to her shoulder. “Ryan and I watched a Dayne Matthews movie the other day.” She chuckled. “Luke was right. The two of them do look alike.
Becky Nesbitt, you had a vision for this series and my place as a fiction author at Tyndale, and I will always be grateful for that! This book and this series wouldn't have come together without Becky, Mark Taylor, Ron Beers, ...
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Book 3 in the 5-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.5 million copies A story of God’s divine leading and the truth that God rewards those who seek Him with all their heart, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times ...
She stopped, the ocean spread out behind her, placed the rose between her teeth, and faced him. “Take it,” she mumbled through her clenched teeth. John remembered how his heart had melted. “What am I going to do with you?
With Time’s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co-author Stephen Baxter imagined a near-future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by ...
After finding his firstborn son, John Baxter looks for a way to tell his other children, while a Hollywood trial reunites Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart, but just when love has the chance to win, doubts and scandals push them further apart.
Firstborn: Poems
From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” ...
The Exodus from Biblical and archaeological sources.