Between Prayers and Promises

Between Prayers and Promises

Lashae Bennett never expected the boy she met at the YMCA to become the person who would change her life.

At sixteen, Lashae is a dedicated netball player whose life revolves around faith, family, and dreams of a bright future. Josiah is the charismatic basketball player everyone admires the pastor's son with a quiet confidence and a heart that seems firmly rooted in God. What begins as a chance introduction soon grows into an unshakable friendship, built on late-night conversations, shared ambitions, and stolen moments after practice.

Before either of them realizes it, friendship becomes first love.

But first love isn't always enough to withstand the battles people fight within themselves.

As hidden struggles begin to surface, the boy Lashae trusted slowly becomes someone she no longer recognizes. The relationship that once felt like God's greatest blessing is tested by heartbreak, painful choices, and wounds that neither of them knows how to heal. While Josiah must face the consequences of the man he's becoming, Lashae is forced to rediscover the girl she was before she started losing herself in the hope of saving someone else.

Years later, their lives have taken different paths. Lashae has rebuilt herself through faith, purpose, and perseverance. Josiah carries the weight of regret, determined to become the man he should have been all those years ago.

When fate brings them together again, they'll have to confront the memories they buried, the promises they couldn't keep, and the question they've both been avoiding:

Can love survive the past or is healing found in finally letting go?

*Between Prayers and Promises* is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel about first love, faith, forgiveness, healing, and discovering that God's plans are often greater than the ones we make for ourselves. Because sometimes the person you pray for isn't the person you're meant to keep... but the person who helps you become who you were always meant