Deb Elkink

Author Bio:

Deb Elkink writes from her cottage on the banks of a lovely creek in the rolling hills of southern Alberta, Canada, a stone’s throw from the Montana border. Her award-winning fiction—literary with a theological twist—incorporates travel and tastebuds and the tumults of the heart.

Off the Beaten Path

If only the journey of life came with a compass . . . As the people in these stories struggle to find their way, they must navigate wedding plans overshadowed by family drama, witty banter culminating in a motorcycle ride through the mountains, a job loss that opens the door to a sweet future, language…

BirdSong: Stories of Promise and Hope

When life gets flipped upside down, what will it take to turn it right side up again? From unexpected journeys into the future and the past to a life-changing weekend, a spontaneous road trip, family trauma, the birth of a bookstore, and a potentially disastrous wedding, the men and women in these stories…

Before Summer's End - Stories to Touch the Soul

Home should be the place you run to for shelter from the world, but what if the family members who should love and protect you are the ones who have hurt you the most? Johnnie Alexander -- A Stranger Comes to Springlight Brenda S. Anderson -- Hot Cocoa Summers Eleanor Bertin -- Grounded Sara Davison…

The Red Journal

Flirty globetrotter Sybil badgers her friend Libby to travel along in seeking out the world’s “sacred places”—a monastery in Japan, a mountaintop in Africa, a mosque in Istanbul. Her footloose wandering far from family values costs her more than money. But Libby can’t afford to travel, and…

The Third Grace

The past casts a long shadow, especially when it points to a woman’s first love. Her name was Mary Grace until she fell in love with the French exchange student visiting her family’s Nebraska farm. François renamed her “Aglaia”—after one of the beautiful Three Graces of Greek mythology—and…