When a group of Chicago-area women from diverse backgrounds and life experiences are thrown together at a big weekend conference, they form a prayer group via e-mail, having no idea how God is going to change their lives.

They thought they had a handle on forgiveness, but it seems God has them on a crash-course to an even deeper level.

Only weeks ago, we Yadas toughened our prayer knees when one of our own was the victim of a vicious racial attack. Now it seems each household is being thrown into even bigger and badder circumstances. It especially worries me, Jodi Baxter, because I'm a fixer by nature, and the list is getting out of control...Ruth and Ben are caught in an unplanned pregnancy--in their fifties! Chanda is deluded by the glitter of her lottery dream come true. Floriad...

Turkey dinners, tree trimming, and decking the halls--it's that time of year again! And I, Jodi Baxter, can't wait to celebrate. My kids are coming home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then all of us Yadas are getting decked out for a big New Year's party. But God's idea of decked out might just change the nature of our party plans. A perpleaxing encounter with a former student, a crime that literally knocks me off my feet, a hurry-up wedding,...