“An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” is an inspiring chronicle of the author’s life from her lonely growing-up years in a broken home in suburbia to a radical spiritual transformation as a teenager. She humbly shares how God has led her through a host of unique and trying circumstances in the years since, including the 20 years she endured in an abusive marriage.

Be inspired as Cindy recounts times she has felt His promptings, witnessed true-to-life miracles and been awed to hear God’s warm, inaudible voice. “An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” tempts the reader to fall in love with the wondrous God who seeks to transform our ordinary lives into ones that are truly extraordinary.

Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the Beauty of the story. And yet―how many women do you know who ever find that life?

Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty, striving to be the women they "ought" to be but often feeling they have failed. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women add to the pressure. "Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman." The effect has not been good on the feminine soul.

The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation.

John Eldredge revises and updates his best-selling, renowned Christian classic, Wild at Heart, and in it invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. And he invites women to come to a greater understanding of the powerful, protective providers God designed men to be.