My cousin and I took that train trip in 2010, and I finished the book soon afterward–or at least I thought I had finished the book. When I submitted it to my agent and my editor at Howard, they didn’t care for the story–or the characters. My...
Janette Turlington is the third party aboard the train, and the last to be featured in the book. She is a believer in Christ, but problems in her home and family have driven her to the point where she literally runs away from home, desperate to have time to think by...
Matthew is a widower, the father of two young children, a boy and a girl, and a full-time lawyer. When his wife died, he hired an Irish nanny to care for his kids, but Inga has gone back to Ireland to marry her fiancé. What’s a frustrated father to do? ...
The idea for Andie’s character came about by my worrying about those John plus Kate plus eight minus one kids. The entire country watched that family unravel, and it wasn’t pretty. So I began to think about what those kids will be like in a few years, and...
Where the idea originated . . . This book spent a long time in the “percolating” period and even longer in the “not quite ready” period. But I clearly remember the moment the idea popped into my head. I was sitting with Nancy Rue and other...
It’s been a while since I’ve had a “book of the month” feature, but it’s been a while since I’ve had a new book of the month. In case you’re not familiar with this feature, every day this week I will write about a particular...
