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Grace Before The Trumpet (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher Price: $8.99
Publisher: Realbooks Publishing
Published: Mar 15 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When Grace Martin falls asleep on her Brooklyn couch, she does not expect to wake up in the middle of the most vivid rapture dream she's ever imagined. In it, the sky splits open, a trumpet shakes the city, and ordinary people around her rise toward a blazing light-while she stays rooted to the sidewalk, knowing in her gut she's not going with them.
Shaken to the core, Grace can't shrug it off as just bad popcorn. The nightmare follows her into meetings, subway rides, and late-night scrolling, until she finally slips into a small neighborhood church just to look. There she meets Pastor Michael, a coffee-stained, sneaker-wearing preacher who doesn't fit her stereotypes and gently points her past charts and fear toward the Person behind it all-Jesus.
As Grace wrestles with guilt, questions, and a second, even more unsettling end-times dream, her best friend and roommate, Tasha-a Latina woman burned by heavy-handed religion-watches warily from the sidelines. Their honest, sometimes funny, sometimes painful conversations draw both women into a deeper confrontation with what they really believe about God, judgment, and mercy.
Blackout nights, Bible studies in Revelation, and small acts of everyday obedience push Grace from panic to a living hope and Tasha from anger to an unexpected willingness to crack open the door of her heart.
Grace Before the Trumpet is a Christian end-times novella about two women learning that God's warnings are not meant to crush them, but to wake them-and that the return of Christ is not just a threat to fear, but a promise to long for.
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