When Hope Sings

What happens when someone has spent so long protecting themselves from pain that they can no longer distinguish self-preservation from self-imprisonment?

When Hope Sings is the second installment in Anna Hayes's Songs of the Heart series-a Christian romance that explores the tender, often terrifying journey of learning to feel again after grief or loss has taught the heart to go quiet.

Emily has become so practiced at folding her emotions away that she has nearly convinced herself there is nothing left to fold. Her world is composed, outwardly functional, and inwardly still. But stillness, once a refuge, has become a prison.

The transformation unfolds with deliberate patience-not through dramatic crisis, but through the quiet persistence of people who refuse to stop seeing her. As light slowly returns to the darkest corners of her life, Emily discovers that being seen, and learning to receive love, is not weakness but the most courageous act of all.

Perfect for readers who know what it is to perform wellness while quietly holding themselves apart from their own lives, When Hope Sings offers something more sustaining than tidy resolutions: the reassurance that hope, like light, does not arrive all at once-it comes slowly, gently, and with absolute certainty.

A story about the courage it takes to let yourself feel again.