In the 1970s, when a distant cousin dies unexpectedly, Mary Ellen and Charles Hawley agree to take his seven-year-old son Steven into their home. Steven\u2019s birth mother, a Polish immigrant, has schizophrenia and can\u2019t assume custody. But in a last traumatic visit, she convinces her son that a mysterious presence called the bicycle messenger has followed him into his new life.<\/p>\n
Years later, Steven, a recovering alcoholic with a history of bipolar disorder, is working as a short-order cook. To Megan Helmsworth, a college student waiting tables, he is a sweet, doting boyfriend. But Steven becomes more and more preoccupied with his lost family of origin, and when a manic swing sends him on a quixotic journey to Poland, Megan seizes her chance to escape. In a well-meaning attempt to shelter her fragile son, Mary Ellen agrees to harbor a secret no mother should ever keep.<\/p>\n
Told through the eyes of the three women who love Steven best\u2014Mary Ellen, Megan, and his adoptive sister Margaret\u2014The Bicycle Messenger <\/span><\/em>is a story of generational trauma that stretches from the last days of the Krak\u00f3w ghetto in 1942 all the way to 2016. But it is also a story of unexpected grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Releases August 4, 2025<\/p>\n Order Now to Get the First Chapter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2566,59,2630,222],"product_tag":[2567,2647],"class_list":["post-8995","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-chrism-press","product_cat-contemporary-fiction","product_cat-dual-time","product_cat-new-releases","product_tag-chrism-press","product_tag-jonathan-d-torres","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t