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Mercy Heights
Hardcover
Publisher: Meridith Gibbens Books
Published: Apr 3 2026
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Christian small town romance / Inspirational fiction
In Mercy Heights, forgiveness requires courage. Redemption unfolds slowly. But grace writes the ending no one saw coming.When widowed single father Caleb Rourke accepts the presidency of the struggling Mercy Heights Christian Academy, he expects cracked sidewalks and dwindling enrollment-not a town still quietly divided by its past.
With aging buildings, entrenched traditions, and a wary board watching his every move, Caleb quickly realizes this isn't just a leadership position. It's a calling.
Local English professor Tessa Mercy has prayed for renewal for years. A descendant of the town's founders and one of the few faculty members who never walked away, she understands Mercy Heights' history-both its beauty and its fractures. As she and Caleb work side by side to restore a weary community, their shared vision slowly deepens into something neither anticipated.
But when Caleb extends a second chance to Jake Russel-a college student carrying the weight of a reckless mistake-old resentments begin to surface.
Complications multiply when Jake falls for a young woman whose life has already been shaped by his past.
Then a devastating accident rocks the campus, forcing Mercy Heights to confront its deepest fault lines. As blame rises and Caleb's presidency hangs in the balance, the entire town must face a difficult question:
Is grace merely something they proclaim-
or something they are willing to live?
As Jake wrestles with shame and the possibility of redemption, Caleb and Tessa discover that rebuilding a school may be easier than rebuilding trust... and loving each other openly may cost more than either of them imagined.
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