“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest.” Matthew 11:28 While grieving the loss of her mother, Rayne Lewis is burdened with a myriad of family problems that her death left behind: Daddy’s Place, the family restaurant, is steeped in debt and her chronically ill father depends on it for his living. Brothers Marcus and Joel turn to a criminal for the money they desperately need to keep the restaurant from bankruptcy. The third brother Paulie, to assert his independence, has taken a job delivering drugs. All three brothers are in debt to the same man, Duke Tremain, who pulls the noose tighter and tighter around their necks. As she sorts through the confusion,…

These are the stories of four women who, like the legendary phoenix, find transformation and healing as they struggle to overcome the devastating circumstances of their lives. In Rise, Lydia Green makes a promise to her dying mother to leave her abusive husband Silas. A year later that promise still haunts her and goes unfulfilled. But the chance meeting of a stranger and the rekindling of an old love stir hope in her broken heart. In One Sunday Morning, Christy Duncan comes face to face with the stigmatized disease of AIDS that has invaded the body of her best friend, Anna. When Anna reaches out to her for support, will she ignore her plea or stand strong by her side? Christy learns that it costs…