Maggie invites her daughters, Sarah and Corinne, to spend a week with her at a secluded beach in Florida. She tells them she wants to take the perfect photograph of the three of them. But all Sarah and Corinne can think about is the work they've left back home, all they can feel is the anxiety created by their own circumstances. That is until their mother's secret helps them see the real "picture" of their lives: the best and most important things in life are right in front of them.

Seaside, along with Then Comes Marriage, introduces Zondervan's new collection of novellas -- short novels in a smart hardcover format with emotionally compelling covers and a story line that delves into characters and their complex needs and relationships.

Many readers will identify with the characters in Seaside and the anxiety that comes from trying to do everything and be everything -- just like their mothers taught them. This moving parable brings alive the truth that our identity is not in what job we do but in the relationships we build -- with one another and with God.