By His Stripes (Paperback)

She was a good nurse with fourteen years of steady hands — until one night in a Nashua ER, a medication pump running too fast cracked open a door she'd kept shut for seven years. Sarah once watched a nineteen-year-old named Jacob die of an overdose, and now her own brother is circling the same drain. By His Stripes follows one woman through the wreckage of other people's addictions and her own, as Isaiah 53:5 — "with his stripes we are healed" — stops being a Sunday-school verse and becomes the only thing holding her together. A novel about the people on the other side of the hospital curtain: nurses, mothers, brothers, and the Savior who steps into the pain with them. For anyone who has stood watch over a loved one's addiction and wondered whether healing was still possible.