Grief & Healing
Loss sits at the center of these novels, but they don't stay there. Each one follows someone who has been knocked flat by grief and slowly finds a reason to get back up. Readers often tell Charles these are the books that met them in their own hard seasons.

The Dead Don't Dance
2004 · Dylan & Maggie Novels, Book 1
A sleepy rural town in South Carolina. The end of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy and...

When Crickets Cry
2006
In a small town square of a sleepy Georgia town, seven-year-old Annie sits at her lemonade stand, raising money for her own heart transplant.

Maggie
2006 · Dylan & Maggie Novels, Book 2
When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time...

Where the River Ends
2008
Somewhere in 2007, I met a husband and wife who lost a daughter to cancer. As I stood, staring at her grave, her father’s tears soaking the ground next to me...