St. Ninian's Sanctuary

St. Ninian's Sanctuary is a spiritual retreat center on a mysterious island so far south it's nearly in Antarctica. At this center guests find healing, hope, and renewal, or so says its website. Ione Stavros needs it to be true, because she needs healed. Memories of horror haunt her, and she's desperate to hear God again and regain her life. Soon after she arrives she meets Callen McGill, who is clearly as haunted as she is. Through an unspoken agreement, they don't share their pain, but they share adventures, sometimes dangerous adventures, digging more deeply into the island's secrets. God begins to knit Ione's wounds, but Callen falls farther into darkness, and he doesn't understand why God won't heal him. If God is dealing with them together-and it seems that's what He means to do-surely He will heal both of them. At least Callen hopes so, because this isn't simply about healing their spirits. It's also about rebuilding their lives, and Callen needs a job, a home, and mostly a way to keep Ione in his everyday life, whatever that will look like. It isn't until God puts everything in Callen's life to the test that he realizes God's paths might lead to places he never expected to go. Small-town Christian contemporary romance with an island twist.

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.

The island will never be the same… Felicia is on the island to watch her cousin Lynn marry one of the island pilots. Barry is on the island to give his mother-in-law a chance to refresh and recharge, knowing caring for his wheelchair-bound son is wearing her down. Or so they believe. Perhaps God wants Felicia's childhood wounds to heal. Perhaps he wants her to touch a boy trapped in a broken body and a broken mind. Perhaps Barry is here for his own heart, which shut down after the accident that killed his wife and damaged his son, the accident he believes was his fault. Perhaps both of them need love and new beginnings. Or perhaps it's even bigger. Perhaps this pair has a darker purpose, and they will face great loss and heartache to reach the soul of an island that's floundering. For months now the sanctuary has fractured and gossiped and torn people down, and this family might be the catalyst for change for an entire island's future. Even at a devastating cost. 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.

Tyler and Michelle would do anything to redeem themselves, except maybe get along. Michelle has been staff at St. Ninian's from the beginning, watching in envy as everyone around her falls in love. Tyler is new, and a single mistake over the holidays won't let him go. Suddenly every woman on the island glares at him. When a prank gone wrong gets Tyler in trouble, and a tendency for gossip does the same for Michelle, their boss Dusk puts the pair in charge of a huge project, not sure what else to do with them. Suddenly responsible for designing and building a small prayer chapel, Tyler jumps at the chance to prove himself, and Michelle faces her utter inability to design and build. What nobody counted on was the strange spark between the pair, waffling from respect to hatred and back, or the addition of two guests here for healing who latch onto the project like a lifeline. In true St. Ninian's fashion, a simple project becomes difficult and dangerous as God uses it to heal and grow four lost souls and create one of the most amazing buildings on the island. Into the Fortress is book eleven in the 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.