For readers of Christian fiction who have wrestled with what faith asks of a family in crisis,
The Edge of Grace meets Caryn Becker at the moment her world comes apart. An early morning call brings news from her brother, David, that she cannot accept that he is gay. A young widow and single mother already stretched thin, Caryn turns away from him and retreats into her own turbulent life.
Then David is attacked and nearly killed, and the distance Caryn chose is no longer one she can keep. Forced back toward the brother she rejected, she has to make hard choices about family, faith, and her own future. The novel follows that reckoning honestly, holding together love and anger, doubt and belief, and the question of what forgiveness actually costs. It is a story about justice and acceptance, about the family we are given and the family we choose, and about how far grace will stretch before it breaks.
Christa Allan is a Louisiana novelist who writes Southern stories of unscripted grace threaded with hope, humor, and heart. The Edge of Grace is fiction for readers and book groups who want a story that treats a hard subject with honesty, and who believe that family, faith, and forgiveness are worth reckoning.
