The honeymoon’s over. The real love story — the one that requires faith and forgiveness — is just beginning.
In 2022, my husband and I went through a devastating season of marriage. Then, by the grace of God, our marriage was saved! We had no business coming out of that sin and brokenness better than we were before, but the Lord is so merciful and kind. He brought us through that darkness and showed us firsthand what redemption looks like. But I found myself in a strange place: falling in love with my husband all over again. There were old wounds to contend with, babies who needed breakfast, a house and responsibilities, and years of familiarity. All blended — impossibly — with the sense that we needed to begin again from less than zero.
The books I liked to read simply did not contend with love stories like that. Books — which had been my safe place for as long as I could remember — made me feel shut out, othered, and tarnished. My "happily ever after" had fallen apart, so the perfect love stories I saw on paper felt like salt in my wounds. But neither did I want to read "dark romance" that leans into the hurt. I wanted redemption.
That was when Jesus gave me my first story. So I set out with some real big, "fine, I'll do it myself," energy and started writing novels as high fantasy retellings of what it's like to fall in love with your own spouse all over again after betrayal and brokenness have torn you apart. I tone the sins way down for my books so that they can feel palatable and safe for readers who are in their own season of healing, but I don’t shy away from the confusion, awkwardness, and painfully slow march of forgiveness that is required in a second chance romance between husband and wife.
My stories have strong themes of faith in God, change, forgiveness, and restoration. My main characters aren't looking for love. Instead, they learn to fall in love with their own spouses all over again. I've watched God heal my broken heart, mend my damaged marriage, and save my sinful soul — and I want that for you too! I pray my books point you to Jesus. He is the only one sufficient to meet you in your hurt as well as make you whole.
If you've ever felt like romance novels just don't "get it" because real happily evers aren't like that, then already-married romance is for you.