The Gift Is Me
About the Book
The Gift Is Me
What if doing something miraculous cost you everything you loved?
At first glance, Simone Lee seems like any other girl trying to survive middle school, friendships, family expectations, and the awkward uncertainty of growing up. But everything changes after a terrifying accident involving her best friend Lena forces Simone to do the one thing she’s both feared and known all along—use her gift.
When Lena is miraculously healed, the moment should feel like an answer to prayer. Instead, it becomes the beginning of loss. To protect Simone, her family is forced to move, pulling her away from her first true friend—the one who meant the most. It’s a loss she doesn’t know how to carry.
With each new move, Simone is asked to start over—new school, new friendships, new life—while holding on to a secret that sets her apart. She struggles with loneliness, frustration, and the quiet fear that the very gift meant to help others may cost her the life she longs to keep.
At first glance, Simone Lee seems like any other girl trying to survive middle school, friendships, family expectations, and the awkward uncertainty of growing up. But everything changes after a terrifying accident involving her best friend Lena forces Simone face-to-face with a gift she cannot explain. What begins as a moment of desperate prayer soon becomes undeniable. Simone has the ability to heal through the power of God.
As miraculous moments continue unfolding around her, Simone’s world becomes increasingly complicated. Her family constantly relocates after each healing, leaving Simone emotionally exhausted and resentful. She struggles to understand why helping people always seems to cost her something personally. Every move forces her to start over, leave friendships behind, and rebuild her life again and again.
At school, Simone experiences friendship, competition, insecurity, and first love while carrying a secret that separates her from everyone else around her. Through relationships with Naomi, Andre, Lena, her parents, and her growing faith, Simone slowly begins to understand that purpose often arrives hand in hand with sacrifice.
Filled with emotional highs and heartbreaking moments, The Gift Is Me explores what it means to trust God even when life feels unfair. It is a story about identity, spiritual calling, forgiveness, and learning that some gifts are bigger than fear, pain, or uncertainty.
As she navigates middle school, first crushes, and the fragile world of friendships, Simone is forced to wrestle with difficult questions: Why would God give her a gift that hurts this much? And how do you trust Him when obedience feels like loss?
Through every goodbye and every new beginning, Simone’s journey becomes one of discovering who she is, why she was chosen, and what it truly means to walk in faith.
The Gift Is Me is a powerful, faith-centered story about identity, sacrifice, and trusting God in the middle of pain—because some gifts don’t just change lives… they transform the one who carries them.
At first glance, Simone Lee seems like any other girl trying to survive middle school, friendships, family expectations, and the awkward uncertainty of growing up. But everything changes after a terrifying accident involving her best friend Lena forces Simone face-to-face with a gift she cannot explain. What begins as a moment of desperate prayer soon becomes undeniable. Simone has the ability to heal through the power of God.
As miraculous moments continue unfolding around her, Simone’s world becomes increasingly complicated. Her family constantly relocates after each healing, leaving Simone emotionally exhausted and resentful. She struggles to understand why helping people always seems to cost her something personally. Every move forces her to start over, leave friendships behind, and rebuild her life again and again.
At school, Simone experiences friendship, competition, insecurity, and first love while carrying a secret that separates her from everyone else around her. Through relationships with Naomi, Andre, Lena, her parents, and her growing faith, Simone slowly begins to understand that purpose often arrives hand in hand with sacrifice.
Filled with emotional highs and heartbreaking moments, The Gift Is Me explores what it means to trust God even when life feels unfair. It is a story about identity, spiritual calling, forgiveness, and learning that some gifts are bigger than fear, pain, or uncertainty.
Why Read It
The Gift Is Me
Some stories entertain you for a moment. Others stay with you long after you finish the final page. The Gift Is Me does both. It combines heartfelt storytelling, emotional vulnerability, spiritual depth, and relatable teenage experiences into a novel that feels intimate and genuine.
Readers who enjoy stories centered around faith, family, friendship, emotional growth, and discovering personal purpose will connect deeply with Simone’s journey. The book explores difficult emotions honestly while still carrying hope at its center. It reminds readers that faith is not always simple, healing is not always easy, and purpose sometimes arrives through painful change.
This is more than a story about miracles. It is a story about growing up, learning who you are, and finding strength in God when life refuses to stay comfortable.
