Heavy Lifting: Love, Faith, and Second Chances at the Summer Food Drive
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 29 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Nora Callahan has run Millbrook's Summer Stock-Up Drive alone for three years - organizing the food pantry's most demanding week when school lets out and hunger quietly spikes. She's competent, called, and carefully closed off. What she is not prepared for is Marcus Webb: her volunteer coordinator's last-minute replacement, a prodigal son back in town with a failed business and a faith grown cold, who happens to know exactly how to fix her bottlenecked warehouse floor.
- A faith journey with real stakes: Marcus's return to God is earned, honest, and deeply moving - never preachy.
- Clean romance built on trust: Every step of the romance is grounded in character - shared work, honest conversation, and hard-won vulnerability.
- Setting with soul: A Georgia summer food pantry - steamy, chaotic, and full of community spirit - becomes one of the most compelling backdrops in Christian fiction.
- Characters who feel like people you know: Nora's fierce competence, Marcus's quiet shame, Mae's unstoppable intercession, and Destiny's zero-filter wisdom all earn their place in your heart.
- The kind of ending that makes you exhale: Hopeful, honest, and exactly right.
One-click today and spend the weekend in Millbrook, Georgia, where the shelves get restocked and so does everything else that matters.
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