About the Author:
Growing up between worlds gave me a fascination with culture, language, diversity, and the ultimate truth of God’s Word. For me, stories were first a way to explore these things and then a way to share. Armed with coffee, tea, and (in the best scenarios) a cat or two, I work to write quality stories that others can enjoy to the glory of God.
Here are my published works!
Eli really didn’t mind raking for Clara. He liked her, he decided. She was nice. One of those grownups who were fun, like…
Like Mr. Beasley.
Eli scowled, letting the rake bite into the newly uncovered ground. Not like Mr. Beasley anymore.
It was too bad he couldn’t rake for Mrs. Beasley without doing it for Mr. Beasley too. Come to think of it, Clara hadn’t mentioned her husband even once. Eli thought about that time when she had been crying, and how all the adults had comforted her and prayed for her. He remembered Mr. Beasley, crying all alone in his office.
He wondered if Clara knew.
When little Emily Beasley dies at only 5 years old, Eli Holcomb’s world starts to change. As relationships deteriorate and grief hits home, Eli begins to question how God can justify this kind of pain. But God is doing a work in Reston’s Gap, Virginia, and what follows will have eternal repercussions.
He pulled himself to his thin height, a terrible glare piercing her veil. “Thief!”
She backed away from him.
“You would steal from the Rajina—from the Raj’s own household!”
She fled out the curtained door, the little bells on her girdle jingling persistently in her ears.
The pawn broker’s voice rose behind her. “Run, run, thief—singer’s daughter. I know who you are—I know where you live. Run! You cannot escape the justice of the Raj.”
In 1500 A.D., a Christian girl in the Raj’s court is a thief and liar, estranged from God. Not one person suspects—until the day she is caught. When Kardeleen’s lies are exposed she flees her family, her city, and her king, but God will not leave her alone. Can she ever really be free? What does it mean to serve a God of Truth?
“For a handful of silver coin I shall be ready to sell my soul to the devil, my skin to the Stadtholder—”
“And your honor, sir?” asked the other with a sneer. “To whom will you sell that?”
“To you, sir,” retorted Diogenes promptly, “since you are short of the commodity.”
The year is 1624. The ruthless Stadholder holds the reins of power in the Protestant and Republican Netherlands. There are those who plot his death, and one dark night the lovely Gilda Berestyn overhears that which she should not. Her own brother and the man who betrayed her love hire the foreign adventurer Diogenes to abduct her and ensure her silence. But that daring scoundrel has a sense of honor all his own, and soon Diogenes and his two friends are all who stand between Gilda and the Stadholder’s safety. Meet the ancestor of that mysterious hero of the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and you will see exactly where Sir Percy got his flair and wit—and his skill with a pointed blade.