Your writing manages to be fast-paced and thoughtful at the same time (no mean feat). The story line is also refreshingly gritty and gut-wrenching. Not a girlie novel. I like your main character, the way you develop her, and the poignant insights you give into her soul. You never bore your readers or insult their intelligence, and you make every word count for something. ...I wish you had written 20 years ago so that I might have had an opporunity to claim some credit for having "discovered" you as a writer. Kudos to whoever is your editor at Moody Press. I'm glad he or she had the courage to publish your books.

In fact, I have to say I am both surprised and pleased at the way your books break the mold of Moody Press fiction. You may be the first-ever MP author to have a Christian character smoke a cigarette, get in a violent cat-fight, etc. Your characters are real; not the perfect caricatures one usually encounters in Christian fiction.

I'm particularly surprised and pleased at the way Moody Press has given you freedom to speak frankly and powerfully about the errors and excesses of Roman Catholic culture and theology. Moody sometimes tries to tone down that sort of polemic, especially in fiction settings. I'm glad they didn't eviscerate those parts of your novel. That alone would be enough to make me excited about your books, but they are superbly entertaining, too. Thumbs up.