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THE SEVENTH DOOR of the CARPENTER
When Faith Still Builds
by John Cicero
Some miracles aren’t meant to be seen.
They’re meant to be remembered.
In 1925, a violent storm tore through Brooklyn, leaving a small parish church in ruins.
From the wreckage emerged a nameless carpenter.
For seven days, he worked in silence.
And on the seventh, he carved a door unlike any other.
A door that seemed to breathe.
To heal.
To console.
The townspeople called it The Seventh Door.
But wonder has a way of unsettling those who fear what they cannot explain.
Quietly, the door was sealed.
Plastered over.
Hidden—not lost, but buried.
A century later, architect Maria Lucenti returns to her family’s parish.
And with her comes a feeling her grandmother, Emmy, once knew well:
The hum of grace.
The scent of lilac and cedar.
The echo of hammer on wood.
As past and present begin to intertwine, Maria must confront what was hidden—and why.
The Seventh Door of the Carpenter is a quiet, faith-infused story of legacy, redemption, and divine craftsmanship. A novel about belief that lingers, love passed down through generations, and the truth that even the doors we seal in fear still remember the way back to light.
Chasing Hearts
A Contemporary Christian Romance Novel
(The Perspectives Series Book 1)
by Staci Stallings
Justin Caradon is all about becoming a success in life. He has moved away to college, gotten a job, and has made it to junior year. In fact, life is looking pretty under control. But sometimes life has other plans…
Anna Murphy has one goal in life–to not let anyone down. Unfortunately, life isn’t exactly playing fair. When she’s in an accident, the life she thought she was building begins to twist and turn in ways she cannot get a hold on. Worse, her no-nonsense manager at work, Mr. Caradon, keeps showing up to rescue her at the most inopportune times. For someone who is so together, why does it always feel like everything is falling apart?
The Perspectives Series by USAToday Best-Selling Contemporary Christian Romance Author, Staci Stallings takes readers on a journey through the lives of the Caradon siblings that readers met in The Love Series. These siblings, the nephews and niece of Pete Caradon, are striking out on their own–finding love and the challenges life can bring. Come along on this journey of faith, grace, hope, and love. God’s got a plan if you will just learn to let Him lead..
