Sundays at Sal's Diner

<p><em>A gritty Christian contemporary novel about grace second chances and the God who never gives up on us.</em></p><p>Sal Hawthorne is no saint. She's the kind of woman who knows how to handle a drunk customer pour a perfect cup of coffee and hide a whiskey bottle where no one will find it. Running the local diner with a sharp tongue and a guarded heart Sal has spent decades surviving-haunted by memories she won't name and mistakes she won't confess.</p><p>Then Mandy walks in.</p><p>Bright-eyed relentlessly kind and armed with a well-worn Bible Mandy is the last person Sal wants behind her counter. But this young waitress isn't intimidated by Sal's rough edges. With gentle words and a quiet strength she chips away at the walls Sal has spent a lifetime building.</p><p>As their unlikely friendship deepens secrets begin to surface. Pain from the past. Shame that still stings. And the question Sal has never dared to ask: <em>Could Jesus really want someone like her?</em></p><p>Told with raw honesty dark humor and a piercing sense of hope <em>Sundays at Sal's Diner</em> is a powerful story of redemption forgiveness and the relentless love of a Savior who meets us right where we are-mess and all.</p>