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Bent, Not Broken Bent by the weight of sin, lifted by the Cross. When the quiet roads of Colbren wind through faith, failure, and redemption, one man discovers that brokenness is not the end of grace-but its beginning. After a devastating crash on a cold rural night, Joe Fogle wakes to find more than scars of twisted metal and shattered glass. Lying beside him in the wreckage was a bent crucifix-rescued and placed around his neck by David Devore, the farmer who pulled him from the burning truck. To most, it's nothing more than damaged steel. But to Joe, it becomes a sacred sign of mercy, a symbol of how God can straighten even the most broken of lives. Now a husband, father, and small-town business owner, Joe strives to lead his family in faith while secretly battling what he calls his ""deep pocket sins""-shameful struggles he hides from everyone, even from God. His wife, Maggie, stands beside him with quiet strength, her prayers carrying him when his own falter. Yet as old temptations resurface and the weight of unspoken guilt grows heavy, Joe must decide whether to keep living in shadows-or step once more into the light of confession and renewal. Through their story unfolds the quiet beauty of Catholic life in a rural town-Mass bells, family rosaries, the hum of fields at dusk, and the raw honesty of redemption found through the sacraments. Around them, other lives intertwine: Lucy, the friend haunted by past regret; David, the man who saved Joe's life; and the next generation, searching for hope in a world that has forgotten how to pray. Bent, Not Broken is a tender, unflinching journey into mercy-a novel for anyone who has wrestled with sin, carried hidden wounds, or longed to begin again. It reminds us that holiness is not the absence of failure, but the grace to rise again and follow Christ, who meets us not in our perfection, but in our need.

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