Charity's Garden

<p><strong>Charity's Garden</strong></p><p> <em>A novel of trauma surrender and soul-deep healing</em></p><p>Charity McBride was trained to save lives. As a paramedic she's witnessed horror and heartbreak-and tucked her own pain into the pockets of her uniform where no one would see. But when a false accusation shatters her career and sends her spiraling into homelessness Charity finds herself without the very things she used to protect: safety direction and hope.</p><p></p><p>With nowhere to go but inward Charity seeks refuge in a forgotten garden on the outskirts of town-a quiet place tended by a mysterious old man and inhabited by fragments of her own soul. Here amid flowers that bloom through hardship and weeds that choke with lies she meets Joshua-a blue-eyed stranger whose presence disarms her defenses and speaks to her brokenness with unnerving clarity.</p><p></p><p>But not every voice in the garden wants her whole. Shadowy spirits lurk at the edges whispering words of despair. Zolgreth a demon from her past feeds on her guilt and failure. As Charity battles for her sanity she must decide which voice to believe: the one that calls her unworthy... or the one that never stopped calling her home.</p><p></p><p><em>Charity's Garden</em> is a visceral spiritually charged journey into the fractured landscape of the soul. With poetic prose and piercing insight this unforgettable prequel to <em>The Gates of Shiloh</em> dares to confront the question at the heart of every survivor's story: Can a soul broken by this world ever truly be made whole?</p><p></p>