Terri Blackstock is known for her hard-hitting stories of suspense and love, as her characters are revealed for flawed but persisting Christians seeking to find ways to deal with the bad things happening in life in a way consistent with their religious beliefs. Blackstock often uses recurring characters to provide readers with a comfortable sense of belonging. These characters are ordinary, working-class people from small-town America. Blackstock uses clean, crisp prose and brisk pacing to draw the readers through the characters' journey of faith. Start with: Cape Refuge
Karen Kingsbury writes emotionally charged, Christian-centered fiction with contemporary settings and built around a strong romantic component. Readers will enjoy following the characters' growth, often spiritual, throughout the novels and series. Her characters often face difficult issues, such as illness, abortion, or abuse, but Kingsbury views them through an evangelical lens. With lots of dialog, cliff-hanger chapters, and an episodic style of writing, Kingsbury's novels move at a quick pace. Start with: A Time to Dance.
Setting her contemporary evangelical Christian family stories among Amish communities in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Beverly Lewis attracts readers with her authentic details and fascinating insights into the "plain people" and their beliefs. While the Amish background gives these series a timeless feel and unhurried pace, the issues involving lifestyle and faith make them unexpectedly thoughtful and provocative. For all her earnestness and old-fashioned values, Lewis's books address very real issues of religious dissension and how to keep oneself from, yet of, the world. Start with: The Parting.
Ted Dekker stretches the boundaries of Christian Fiction by exploring new subgenres, including Suspense, Fantasy, and Thrillers. Readers who prefer a less conservative Christian perspective or who are not of a Christian faith can appreciate Dekker's page-turning stories, which are moral in purpose though not explicitly religious. From creating new worlds to serving up suspense in modern America, Dekker is an imaginative storyteller who crafts captivating plots. His evocative imagery and descriptive details create brilliantly realized settings and richly painted characters, whether human or a new species. Start with: Thr3e
Wanda E. Brunstetter brings romance and drama to the old-fashioned charm of Amish life. Her novels have become popular for their Christian-centered writing and detailed depictions of modern Amish life. Family, community, and God are at the center of her characters' lives as they overcome tragedies, fall in love, and face mistakes in their pasts. Start with: A Merry Heart whichwas recently made in to an award winning feature film.
A portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life introduces the small North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor.
After millions of people around the world vanish in one moment, in what many claim to be the Rapture, Rayford Steele begins a search for the truth amidst global chaos.
Faith in God and the determination of youth sustain nineteen-year-old Marty after her husband is killed on their journey westward and she is forced to face the uncertainties of the frontier alone.
DeVeaux DeLoach is one of those precocious southern girls full of wisdom and charm. She serves as the wry witness when her dad's investments go sour and his proud family must decamp to their rundown plantation on the South Carolina island of Edisto. Various of Daddy's schemes to recoup his losses come to nothing, and he grows steadily more abusive; meanwhile, DeVeaux gives up her fancy private school and takes a job, her faith sustaining her.
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