From Rebecca Simon ? bestselling Christian author, poet and essayist, and one of the most widely shared faith and relationships voices on TikTok. Author of Let Go, Trust God: Become Who You Were Meant To Be and Finding God Every Day: 111 Devotionals for Women Healing Through Faith, both bestsellers in the Christian inspirational space. She writes from inside the life she describes, and has built her readership specifically by writing with what one reviewer called an "optimistic, judgment-free approach to accepting God in your life." Stay Single is her third book ? and her most focused one. Where her first two books addressed the general spiritual in-between (heartbreak, healing, becoming), this one speaks directly to a single, specific, deeply felt experience: the person who is whole, who loves God, who has done the work on his or herself, and who is still waiting. And wondering. And sometimes, quietly, afraid that they've been forgotten. Waiting isn't wasted time ? it's sacred preparation. When the world tells you to settle, to lower your standards, to stop believing in the kind of love that feels like home, this book offers a different path. A gentler truth. It is prose reflections and prayers written directly to the person in the season of singleness ? not as someone to be fixed or rushed or encouraged to try harder, but as someone being shaped, specifically and intentionally, by the very waiting they are in. Simon's central argument, built across every chapter: you're not waiting; you're preparing. This is where you learn how to stop waiting on someone else's willingness to choose you. This is where you learn how to feel chosen in who you are. This book meets you in the gap between who you are becoming and who you haven't met yet ? and insists that gap is not empty time but active formation. The three emotional states the book speaks to most directly: Stay Single when prayers for connection are met with silence ? and God's silence feels like absence but is actually something else entirely. Stay Single when you feel as though God forgot your story while writing everyone else's happily ever after ? and the loneliness of that feeling needs somewhere honest to land. Stay Single when the pressure to settle arrives disguised as wisdom ? and you need a voice that says: no. Not yet. Not this. Simon's voice throughout is what her readers consistently describe across her prior books: warm without being overly sweet, spiritually grounded without being preachy, direct without being prescriptive. She writes as if the God who loves you is not afraid of your hard questions, your unfinished healing, or the mess you think disqualifies you. Her prayers are conversations, not performances. Her reflections are written as someone who has been in the feeling, not above it. Perfect for: Christian women in a season of singleness who are praying for love and navigating the emotional complexity of waiting with faith Women who have done the healing work, who are not broken or bitter, who simply haven't yet found the person they're praying for, and who need permission to honor that season rather than rush through it Readers of Simon's prior books (Let Go, Trust God, Finding God Every Day) who want her signature voice applied to the specific territory of romantic waiting and spiritual identity Readers of Lysa TerKeurst's It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lisa Bevere's Without Rival, or Sadie Robertson's Live Fearless who want something warmer, shorter, and more directly addressed to singleness as a spiritual season Gift buyers looking for something specific and meaningful for a single Christian woman ? a friend, sister, or daughter navigating the loneliness and faith-testing nature of this season without a book that makes her feel like a problem to be solved