Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Hannah Reid is the heart of The Endurance — a thirty-one-year-old community nurse working the growth corridor on Melbourne's south-eastern edge. Greek-Australian, raised in Oakleigh, engaged to Josh, she is an ordinary, kind, quietly faithful woman: the everywoman through whose eyes the whole story is lived. When the comfortable world she knows begins to come apart, the small, unforced habits of her faith turn out to be the ground she can stand on.

Cam is Mel's husband — an electrician in his late thirties, big, steady, and gentle, the practical backbone…

Eleni Reid is Hannah's mother — a warm, formidable Greek-Australian matriarch and the engine of the Oakleigh…

Jess is Hannah's closest friend and fellow community nurse — twelve years on the rounds together, fast…

Josh Calder is Hannah's fiancé — a tall, warm, easy-to-like New Zealander who works on the national…

Margaret is an elderly widow of the Henty Street congregation — small, soft-spoken, and easy to overlook…

Mel is the warm centre of Hannah's church family — about thirty-five, married to Cam, mother of two small…