How Do You Live Without Love?

<p>Wesley Aames shows up to New Covenant as a man who has already lost everything-wife daughter and the will to keep going. Hired to revive a sleepy Appalachian church he finds a congregation on life support: dwindling funds fractious trustees and a choir director who distrusts the new pastor from day one.</p><p>When a teenager from the corner of town dies by suicide and her mother's humiliation explodes online Rosa Lee becomes a magnet for cameras and contempt. Wesley barely a pastor and twice a stranger to mercy steps into the storm-counseling teens calming old ladies cutting the grass answering crisis hotline calls-trying to make faith look like rescue instead of rhetoric.</p><p>As the church's finances and patience run out a vote looms: keep the earnest flawed pastor or replace him with steadier hands. But when the outside world shows up with microphones accusations and a loaded gun Wesley's choices become literal life or death. Can a man who still blames himself for his family's deaths save strangers-and in doing so finally forgive himself? This is a story about grief messy grace and the small acts that sometimes hold a town together.</p>