The Harder Choice: A Select Your Own HKL Quest - Book One

By Rev David Bayduza

The Harder Choice

A Select Your Own HKL Quest - Book 1

You have proof. Using it will cost you.

Kai is standing ten feet from a decision that won't wait. Your best friend Dre has just been accused of cheating - and you have video on your phone that clears him completely. Using it means confronting a teacher who doesn't like being wrong, and doesn't forget who made him look that way. Staying quiet means watching Dre take the fall for something he didn't do.

And a few lockers down, a new student named Priya is quietly becoming someone else's problem too - one that has nothing to do with cheating and everything to do with who gets protected and who gets left alone.

You decide what Kai does next.

With 30 different endings - ten of them Best Endings - every choice leads somewhere different: speak up immediately, wait and think it through, or keep walking and hope it resolves itself. There are no wrong paths, only different discoveries about what courage actually costs.

Set in Riverside Heights, a mid-size Canadian city where three languages fill the grocery stores and everyone knows just enough about everyone else, The Harder Choice explores what Kindness looks like when it isn't free - when standing up for one friend might mean standing alone.

Perfect for ages 12 and up - youth groups, mentoring relationships, classrooms, and personal reading. A free companion Facilitator's Guide is available at www.madministries.ca/resources.

Founded by Rev. David Bayduza in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada. Printed in Canada

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1067836012
• ISBN13: 9781067836016
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: M.A.D. Christian Ministries
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"