Charles Spurgeon is esteemed for his writing, his preaching and his passion for the Lord. Behind the great man was a great wife, and between the two of them was a marriage that is almost never written about.

Ray Rhodes Jr. tells the story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon and shows how the bond between them fueled a lifetime of service - through her long illness, his depressions, the controversies and the sheer weight of the work. A marriage biography rather than a pastoral one, and the better for it.