ThankGodGrace
Bound by Grace
Amara Eze has built a life around not needing anyone - worship leader by day, quietly guarded since the courtship that ended with her standing alone at the altar, bouquet in hand, two years ago. She's made peace with being "called to singleness." Or so she tells herself.
Then her father changes everything over breakfast.
Daniel Okafor just returned from six years on the mission field - steady, sincere, and entirely unprepared for the courtship his father has arranged for him with a woman he barely remembers. He didn't come home to fall in love. He came home to fix his father's church, not his own heart.
Their fathers want a wedding. The church wants a scandal-free distraction. Amara and Daniel just want six weeks to figure out if this is a kindness - or a countdown.
But somewhere between forced family dinners, a mission trip neither of them wanted, and a church full of aunties already planning the wedding, obligation starts cracking into something neither of them is ready to name. And when old wounds resurface - his fear of choosing anything for himself, her fear of being humiliated again - they'll have to decide if love arranged by other people can still be love they choose for themselves.
A slow-burn Christian romance about grace, trust, and learning to want something without being afraid to lose it.