title: The Glass Nativity
author: Muir, Seamus
description: It was just the start of another summer in Ethelburg for Melanie Stevenson; the same mean kids bullying her son, the same jobs -- grocery store by day, casino by night -- and the same rut of a life she had been consigned to by the actions of her ex-boyfriend. But in this particular summer, the routine doesn't last for long. Across the street, a young police detective named Owen Godfrey suddenly moves in at the beginning of summer; and not just any policeman -- a Christian one. As summer goes on, he and other Christians in Melanie's life begin to show her the true meaning of what it is to be Christian, and little by little she is persuaded to meet Jesus -- but that was only the beginning for Melanie, her son Danny, and her BFF Amy Tyler.