A Million Little Choices—An Insider's Look
Author Tamera Alexander shares an insider's look into A Million Little Choices.

2024 Carol Award Winner | Best Contemporary Novel | #1 Amazon Release in Southern U.S. Literature
Focus on the Family / Tyndale · 2023 · ★ 4.43/5 on Goodreads (3,900+)
Sometimes secrets just won't stay hidden . . .
Two women from different centuries living in the same house share strikingly similar journeys.
Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen—it pushes their already-fractured marriage to the breaking point. Claire's world spirals, and she soon finds herself in a marriage she no longer wants, in a house she never asked for.
In 1863, Charlotte Thursmann, pregnant and trapped in a marriage to an abusive husband, struggles to protect her unborn child and the enslaved members of her household. Desperate, she's determined to right the evils her husband and others like him commit. But how can one woman put an end to such injustice? Especially if her husband makes good on his threat to kill her?
Both Claire and Charlotte discover truths about themselves they never realized, along with secrets long hidden that hold the power to bring God's restoration—if only they choose to let it.
"I couldn't put the book down. It was that good! Tamera Alexander does a masterful job at showing a marriage on the brink . . . A Million Little Choices is a wonderfully rich story woven through with love, humor, and spiritual insights that simply will not let you stop reading!"
— Francine Rivers, New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Lady's Mine
"A propulsive tale of marital infidelity and a Southern home overrun with secrets. Vividly rendered, nuanced and complex...a heartfelt commentary on faith and the redemptive power of forgiveness."
— Publishers Weekly
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"In A Million Little Choices, Tamera deftly blends the story of a contemporary marriage on the brink due to shattered trust with a breathtaking historical saga set in the same location. With the flair for which the critically acclaimed USA Today bestselling novelist is famous, Tammy thrills us anew with the mysteriously parallel stories of two heroic women, generations apart."
— Jerry B. Jenkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Left Behind series
"A Million Little Choices was one of those rare, engaging novels that I simply couldn't put down. Tamera's characters lived and breathed... As the plots of two time periods intertwined, Christ's power to redeem even the most tragic circumstances shines through. Don't miss this compelling novel."
— Lynn Austin, bestselling author of If I Were You and All My Secrets
Author Tamera Alexander shares an insider's look into A Million Little Choices.
When A Million Little Choices won the 2024 Carol Award for Best Contemporary Novel, dear friend and writing mentor Deborah Raney accepted on Tamera's behalf—with a twist!
Thanks for making A Million Little Choices—my first contemporary, first first-person-POV, and first dual-story line novel—an Amazon bestseller as well as an ECPA bestseller.
The stories that have lived inside me the longest are often the most difficult to write, and A Million Little Choices was certainly that. Not only because of the subject matter—marriage and infidelity—but because these characters are all so real to me and the settings so tangible, that "first words on the page" often felt frustratingly inadequate and thin compared to the living, breathing movie inside me.
But I drew closer to Christ in the writing, and pray you do, too, in the reading.
A Woman's Heart with Lisa Granger · August 19, 2025
A heartfelt conversation about the themes in A Million Little Choices — friendships, marriage, forgiveness, and God's faithfulness through every season of life.
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