Below the Ice

She saw the world in black and white, so God sent her the king of the gray… Trevor is the son of a Sanctuary staff family who shows up unannounced and discovers his parents have never told anyone on the island of his existence. Having fought the justice system and lost, Trevor is broken and exhausted and hasn't the strength to put together a new life anywhere else, but when the retreat center staff catches wind of the lies that define his past, they don't want him, either. The worst heartbreak is that his family believes the lies as much as anyone. Yvonne works in the retreat center kitchen, and she's content there. With her sunny disposition and ability to be content with the mundane, she thinks her life will be good and remain good until the end of her days. Rarely does she get involved with guests, believing feeding them is enough. For the lady who believes good always comes from good, meeting Trevor, for whom life seems cruelly unfair, rocks her core beliefs. Yvonne may not understand how Trevor's life fell apart, but her heart knows this man needs help and gentleness. Stepping out of her black and white world and into Trevor's life of gray is the most difficult thing she's ever done, and she isn't sure it's what God wants from her. At the heart of her struggles are questions of who God is and what he expects from her, and those questions shake her very foundations. Join Yvonne in the battle for Trevor's heart and soul, a battle that will change the lives of everyone he touches. St. Ninian's Sanctuary series, small-town contemporary Christian romance with a mysterious island twist. Jill Penrod wrote her first novel in high school. It was a space opera (she watched Star Wars A LOT), and it was not great literature. But she persevered, graduating college with top honors in writing. Since then, she's published more than thirty novels. She writes in several genres including Christian teen romance, sweet romance, Christian fantasy stories, and non-fiction. None of them are space operas.

Jill lives in Kentucky with her husband and youngest son. She has three adult children out there doing adult things like work and marriage. When she isn't writing, she gardens and spoils her long-haired Chihuahua Sparrow, along with a few other cats and dogs. Recently she fulfilled her dream of moving to the country, although it has yet to be seen if this city mouse can become a country mouse or not.