A lighthearted, sensitive and realistic look at the world of Christian dating, this is the true story of one woman's determined search for the man of her dreams, with plenty of practical advice on the world of Christian dating.

Rebecca K. Maddox is 30 years old. After many years as a single Christian woman, she embarked on a dating experiment: to go on twenty first dates, with twenty men, met in twenty different ways. Over the course of a year, Rebecca was very nearly compromised on the dance floor, stranded in a muddy village and the catcher of a bouquet. She spent hours trawling profiles on the Internet and waited nervously for the results.

She was driven in a rusty car with no floor and chased by an angry granny. She narrowly escaped a squirting tiger and a falling pigeon, attempted to eat a variety of foodstuffs while trying to look attractive, and struggled in and out of her glad rags in the toilets of approximately ten trains to London. She was confused, amused, frustrated and dazzled in equal measure.

20 First Dates is Rebecca K Maddox account of her experience and endurance or a situation more and more familiar to Christian women as finding a suitable partner becomes more and more difficult in the fragmented, disconnected and secular society of the twenty-first century. 20 First dates will give you practical tips to avoid getting hurt, encouragement that all is not lost and help you put the whole dating things into your Christian perspective.