"It's crazy how fast you can fall in love with someone before you've ever even laid eyes on them." "Trust me, I just did." ~ BEFORE I MET YOU recounts the unmistakable love story of eighteen-year-old Ava-Anne Marie, a girl so in love with the man God has given her to marry, and nineteen-year-old Nathaniel Hayes, a security officer and Luke-warm Christian in training. Plot twist: he doesn't know. Ava-Anne has been praying for her future husband since she was six, and now he's finally here! A preacher's son and flourishing in security, Nathaniel Hayes seems to be everything that Ava has been asking for...until she meets him in person. Rugged by nature and distant with the Lord, he makes for a pretty low believer. Not only that, he has one thing in mind- to settle down with a pretty girl and raise a family of his own. Luckily for them, God has orchestrated the perfect match and it seems that all that's left to do is fall in love and put a ring on it. But how can she re-direct his desires back to the Lord? Read along as Ava and Nathan experience life's simplest pleasures-from morning walks to cozy picnics to writing love letters over the winter. Their story is one of faith and love, courage and patience, loss and hope. It shows how God is good all the time and knows just what we need, when we need it. ~ "But that's the power of God...Knowing exactly who you need, when you need them." "And if you're lucky, he'll let them fall for you."