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When a stranger is found half-dead in a church pew, a small town opens its heart, and lives begin to change.
On a stormy spring night in the Driftless hills of Wisconsin, Father Grady checks on St. Anthony's Church and finds a young man unconscious in the third row. Ben, a Montana rancher's son biking across the country to figure out his life, wakes up in Dr. Joe's clinic with no money, no plan, and a debt to work off at the parish.
What begins as a few weeks of odd jobs grows into something Ben never expected. He finds himself leading a newly formed church choir, working the Olsons' farm, and falling for their daughter Judy, a nurse who has just come home. Soon other wanderers find their way to Father Grady's kitchen table: Mike, a veteran hiking from town to town, and Otis, a down-on-his-luck widower caught stealing from the church. Each is offered not judgment but a second chance.
In the town of Pine Creek, neighbors still look out for one another. Trout rise in gin-clear streams, Sunday means fried chicken at the farm, and two rabbits named Peter and Ester make a home in a fallen oak. A hidden cave, a famous band, and a bag of lost money all have their part to play.
Originally told as a bedtime story to the author's wife, night after night, Nighttime Story is a gentle, faith-filled novel about love, care, and the quiet ways God nudges us toward where we belong.
