One Kregel Title Named 2025 Christianity Today Book Award Winner

GRAND RAPIDS, MI—On December 3, one Kregel title was announced as a winner in Christianity Today's 2025 Book Awards.

This Ain't No Promised Land by Tina Shelton won in the Fiction category. In Tina's debut novel, a widowed mother afraid to face her past abandons her three daughters. Alone on Chicago's South Side, Gracey and her sisters do everything they can to stick together. Their close-knit Black community gathers around them, but it's not enough to fix the damage of abandonment.

Hundreds of miles away, their mother Charlotte struggles to keep her head above water. A close friend talks to her about God in a way Charlotte's never heard before. But when her demons catch up to her, the shaky peace she tried to build suddenly shatters. Even if she's able to find the courage to embrace motherhood again, will it be enough to save the family she left behind?

The Christianity Today reviewer said, "This Ain't No Promised Land documents the perennial nature of human waywardness, the tragedy of inherited shame and abuse, and the enduring hope of knowing a God whose mercy knows no bounds." (James Cooper, novelist, creative writing professor at Tabor College in Adelaide, Australia)

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