The Better Thing by Chelsey Elise Young

There is redemption waiting in Pistacia Hills.

From the award-winning author of The Sweet Experiment comes a sequel with even more drama-and an even more satisfying redemptive ending.

Alyssa's new relationship status-gasp! fiancée!-has her reevaluating her set of principles surrounding love and sex. Finding that her flirtatious, noncommittal habits are no longer compatible with her long-term goals, she begins to confront demons from her past. Alyssa's struggle with lust and temptation takes her where she never intended to go-until losing everything causes her to look elsewhere for meaning. 

A surprising interaction with a lady from Payton's church introduces Alyssa to a new way of seeing and living life, and she finds herself being pursued by the very same Hound of Heaven that claimed her best friend during their junior year. And this God has surprising plans for her . . . plans to restore what Alyssa thought she had lost forever.

Lovers of a good redemption story will wince, groan, ache, laugh, and cry happy tears as they see the truth of the Gospel come alive in this second installment in the Redemption in Pistacia Hillsseries