The Grace Chronicles is a three-book series that follows Oliver and Sandy Grace, along with numerous others, as they explore and discover the power of God’s grace in real life situations. The Grace Chronicles: Volume 1 – Paine Harbor is a story about the power of God to transform lives and communities with His grace. In The Grace Chronicles: Volume 1 – Paine Harbor you’ll follow the lives of the Grace family as they move to a small town off the northern coast of Maine, bringing with them their fears, worries, faith and hope into the unknown. The story tells the tale of their interactions with one another and the people of Paine Harbor. It deals with themes of grief, loneliness, legalism, entrepreneurship, difficult pregnancies, new love, broken families as well as revival and a powerful move of God in the most difficult of situations. The Grace Chronicles: Volume 2 – Blue Water Bay – Overview Sandy and Olivier find themselves relocated back in southern California and pregnant with their fourth child. Living in the coastal community of Blue Water Bay, they re-establish themselves in their home state. Shortly after, Demetrius, Andi and their three-year-old daughter Janey leave Paine Harbor and relocate nearby. Demetrius opens a new coffee house. Their long-time pastors and dear friends Carlos and Deborah Realeza are ousted from their congregation are at a crossroads. The Grace family help them procure a beautiful Bed and Breakfast hotel and start a small church in Blue Water Bay. Shortly after the birth of Sandy and Oliver’s daughter Elizabeth, Sandy is diagnosed with a virulent strain of breast cancer. The story continues as the Grace’s struggle to find God’s presence and their own faith, in the midst of such a horrific situation. The Grace Chronicles: Volume 3 – Songs of Freedom – Overview The book opens with Oliver standing over a fresh grave, grieving. As we soon discover, the grave is not for his wife, Sandy, but is that of his mother Deborah Owens-Grace. The story pulls back in time for five years, where Sandy is hovering close to death but is surprisingly healed and recovers from the cancer. The story jumps forward two years, when Oliver’s mother reentered their lives. It tells of her years as a free-spirited hippie with the promiscuity, drugs and experimentation with Eastern religions that was so common amongst the young people of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Her sons and daughters-in-law begin to quietly share their faith in Jesus with her, which she initially rejects but being impressed with the quality of their lives, has to reconsider. Dealing with the effects of Hepatitis C, she moves in with Demetrius and his family. Oliver and Demetrius’ father, Horace Grace, who is also a child of the 1960’s, reenters the lives of his sons after many years of being disconnected. He and Deborah were divorced long ago, but his love for her had never diminished. Hearing of her deteriorating health, he reaches out to reestablish himself in her heart. His sons shock him with their Christian faith and this gives them the opportunity to share with him their stories. Deborah dies, causing Horace insurmountable grief and shakes his ‘forever young’ mindset. Through a series of divine appointments, Horace is faced with his own mortality and his need for a Savior.