Postmarked Baltimore
Jeff LeJeune
Paperback, 224 pp., $14.95
SterlingHouse (June 30, 2008)

On New Year’s Eve, 1989, Father Perry Burns is sitting in his study, accompanied by a mysterious stranger. Perry has just received a letter from his former sweetheart, whom he jilted years earlier after making a terrible decision. He joined the priesthood to hide from his emotions, but now he finds himself recalling, almost reliving, his checkered past. Will the mysterious stranger win the fight for Father Burns’ soul, or will the struggling priest return to Baltimore to be with the woman he loves?

Awakening
Claudia Cangilla McAdam
Paperback, 160 pp., $14.95
Sophia Institute Press (September 30, 2009)

Fear drives me forward as I rush down a rocky path in Jerusalem, trying to sort things out. Am I an American girl, cast back to the time of Jesus? Or a delusional Jewish teen, plagued with visions of a place called America? I don’t know anymore. But I do know that something awful is about to happen to my Jesus: they’re going to kill him. No one believes me; they think I’m crazy. So it’s up to me to save him, hurrying down this dark path toward Gethsemane, toward the turning point of all history… toward the uncertainty of whether I can actually manage to change the future.