The Anonymous Prayer Project

By Summer Trahan

The Anonymous Prayer Project is a tender, funny novel full of the kind of hope that costs something.
Perfect for book clubs, women's ministry groups, and anyone who has ever been brave enough to let someone pray for them.
Ellie Harper is the quiet engine of the Charleston Inter-Church Outreach Center - dependable, warm, and skilled at making herself invisible. When she designs the Anonymous Prayer Project, a twelve-week initiative pairing strangers from five local churches to pray for each other anonymously, she plans to coordinate it flawlessly from the background. She does not plan to participate.
Her director signs her up anyway.
Each Monday, a new theme arrives: Identity. Fear. Compassion. Their Heart. Forgiveness. And each week, Ellie discovers that the curriculum she wrote for everyone else has been waiting to find her. Her anonymous partner - careful, honest, and unexpectedly perceptive - writes back in ways that make her feel known in a way she'd stopped expecting.
She doesn't know it's Caleb.
Caleb Brooks, her quiet, steady coworker, figured out it was Ellie around Week Six. He kept writing anyway - because she needed it to stay anonymous a little longer, and he was willing to wait.
Set among the live oaks and salt-marsh warmth of Charleston, South Carolina, The Anonymous Prayer Project is a story about the prayers we send into the dark and what we find when the light comes on. It's about chronic illness and the courage it takes to receive care. It's about a mother who texts Bible verses followed immediately by photos of dogs in sombreros. It's about a guarded teenager who shows up because someone finally did for him. And it's about two people discovering that being fully known - by God, by a stranger, by someone who's been right there all along - is the thing they were most afraid of and most needed.

For readers who love:
Slow-burn romance grounded in faith and friendship
Characters who are quietly brave and deeply real
Stories about community, belonging, and being seen
Christian fiction that takes faith - and humor - seriously
The warmth of a Southern setting with the depth of real transformation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNJKVRPT
• ISBN13: 9798248278541
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"