Take the Leap: A Small Town Christian Romance (One Year to Change Everything Book 4)

She spent her whole life learning how to stay safe. He spent his, learning how to survive loss. Neither of them expected love to ask them to be brave.

Jordan Blake has spent twenty-eight years doing what she does best: staying.

Same small Minnesota town. Same apartment. Same job. Same haircut. Same quiet, carefully controlled life. She isn’t unhappy, exactly. But when her best friend challenges her to spend the next year doing things that scare her, Jordan makes a list of brave things—and tapes it to her refrigerator.

Build something with her own hands.
Sing in front of people.
Take a class where she’s bad at something.
Change her hair.
Run a half-marathon.

And, eventually, face the one thing she’s been avoiding since childhood.

Then she meets Marcus Cole.

A quiet, guarded carpenter who has moved to Wren Falls with his five-year-old daughter, Ellie, after the loss of his wife. Marcus has built his entire life around keeping his daughter safe—and keeping his own heart firmly closed. Ellie hasn’t spoken to a stranger since her mother’s death, and Marcus isn’t about to let anyone disrupt the fragile world they’ve built together.

But then Ellie meets Jordan.

As Jordan gives a little girl the space and safety she needs to find her voice, Marcus begins to see something he hasn’t allowed himself to want in years: a life that isn’t simply about surviving.

And Jordan begins to discover that the bravest things on her list aren’t the ones that involve a stage, a pottery wheel, a running trail, or even an airplane.

They’re the things that require her to let someone in.

But just when Jordan is finally learning that staying can be an act of courage, an opportunity arrives that could take her far beyond Wren Falls. Now she has to decide what faithfulness looks like when the path ahead seems to point in two different directions.

Because sometimes taking the leap means leaving.

And sometimes the biggest leap of all is choosing to stay.

Take the Leap is a heartfelt Christian small-town romance about second chances, grief, family, faith, and the courage to let yourself be loved. With a guarded single dad, a kindergarten teacher learning to stop playing it safe, a little girl finding her voice, and a town that refuses to let its people face life alone, this is a story about discovering that you don’t always have to choose between going and staying—and that God may have been holding the ground beneath you all along.

Take the Leap is Book Four in the One Year to Change Everything series, a collection of uplifting Christian romances about ordinary people who discover that one year—and one brave decision at a time—can change everything. Each book stands alone with its own complete romance and happily-ever-after.