For Celeste, a for KING & COUNTRY fan girl, nothing ever goes right. But even for people whose lives are terrible, things can work out. This story shows that no matter what you've been going through, there is always hope!

Joel and Moriah were expecting a beautiful little girl, Alexis. Sadly, Alexis died at birth. So, Moriah and Joel go on tour right after. But, what they didn't know is that, after they left, Alexis came back to life. But, after doctors couldn't find or contact her parents, they sent her go an orphanage and forgot all about her. ------- Fourteen years later, Alexis was adopted at three by a wealthy and loving family. And she loves them, alot. She knows she was adopted. Then, Moriah and Joel are informed that their daughter is alive. Joel and Moriah get her back. Instantly, Alexis gets attached. But, there's a dark cloud over them. And though everything seems happy and okay, they don't realize that it's going to end pretty soon. *COMPLETED* •WARNING- If you love happy endings, then this book isn't for you. Sorry•

❝ i can't turn back, and i don't want too, i've got all i need right here in my arms. ❞ started ; may 3, 2017 published ; may 7, 2017

Who could've thought that music could save lives. Joel and Luke never knew how many lives they saved through their music. Only until one girl stood up, and spoke out. "You saved my little sister's life. I cannot thank you enough." -- "We save lives, Luke. It's a different feeling."

Three months after she started living with Colton and Annie, Alexis's life should be pretty close to perfect, if not very, very improved. And it is. But she can't shake the shadows of her past... the dreams, the cuts that still appear on her arms over and over again without Colton knowing, and everything else that won't let her have a moments peace... from her life. Hard as she tries, she can't seem to be the perfect Christian that she is convinced both God and Colton want of her, but she also can't go back to who she used to be. Ideas float through her head about not being at all anymore, and she can't believe that she's slipped that far again, and refuses to come forward to anyone who loves her, convinced that it will be the end of that. But as she keeps slipping, trying desperately to get back up without any help, it's getting close to a struggle between the Brand New Life that Colton is trying so desperately to show her that she can have, or no life at all. A/N: If you haven't read Rise, I highly recommend that you go back and read it first, or very little is going to make full sense.

When she was little, Alexis had it all. Rich parents who she believed in her heart loved her more than anything else, a huge house, a Nanny to take care of her while her parents were at work, and anything else she needed or wanted. And then, one night that she thought would be like all the others tore all of that apart. Now, she and her mother barely make enough to stay alive, their poverty heavily due to her mom's nights in the bar, forgetting about life. Younger siblings come, then leave in abortion, through Alexis's mother's love life, and the one person she'd actually learned to trust again is newly dead by cancer. And her mother has just remarried the person she used to call "Daddy". Her only real friend is the razor that stays in her pocket or on her arm through the thick and the thin of life. Then, while her parents are on their honeymoon after getting remarried, with nothing to do and oblivious of the religion... or relationship... behind the bands she's going to see, Alexis goes to a little concert by the name of Winter Jam, with no real concept of what she's seeing besides a love of Skillet, a bare idea of Britt Nicole, and the songs she listens to by NF on her way there. When a chance meeting with a stranger turns into getting drug to the meet-and-greet line for a not-so-chance meeting with Colton Dixon, Alexis has no idea that it will change her life forever. But with a leading of Holy Spirit on his heart, and a glimpse of Alexis's arms under her sleeves burning in his memory, Colton finds it impossible to stand oblivious to the downward spiral he can see in Alexis's life. But it's a spiral she gave into long ago, and it will take every ounce of strength either of them has in them for Alexis to rise above the world and into the arms of Christ.