Some journeys save the world. This one must save Profit.
In Surprising God, Yeshua challenges the belief that God can never be surprised, raising questions about faith, free will, and a future that may not be as fixed as it seems. Seeking safety in 1863 Virginia City, Ariel, Profit, Evelyn, Conner, Yeshua, and Jean Baptiste cross paths with Mark Twain and celebrated courtesan Julia Bulette. Then Yeshua foresees Julia’s brutal murder four years in the future.
Determined to save her, the travelers leap forward in time—but history refuses to surrender its secrets. When Julia is killed while wearing Profit’s clothes, he becomes the prime suspect, and Ariel’s anger over her husband’s apparent betrayal may be nearly as dangerous as the lynch mob gathering outside his cell. As Ariel hunts the true murderer, Profit is swept into a confrontation with his younger self and the love story he has spent a lifetime taking for granted.
In Happy Hurting Grounds, Profit lies dying at Urquhart Castle while Ariel and the Virgin Bloods fight to save him. His spirit awakens in Yellowstone beside Abooksigun, an irreverent Algonquin medicine man who suspects Profit has been sent there to answer for the life he has led.
A mysterious memory of Profit’s long-absent father launches the two men on a journey from Ojo Caliente to a burning hotel in St. Louis and the bewildering world of 2000 Dallas. What Profit discovers will transform everything he believes about his parents, his Indigenous heritage, and his connection to the Virgin Bloods. But if he hopes to return to Ariel and their children, he must resist his oldest temptations and confront the sins that have wounded the woman he loves.
Can Profit survive the reckoning awaiting him across time—and find his way home with a heart worthy of the second chance Ariel has given him?
This double volume includes: Surprising God and Happy Hurting Grounds.