Christine Sunderland

Author Bio:

Award-winning author Christine Sunderland has been interested in matters of belief since the age of sixteen when her father, a Presbyterian minister, lost his faith. She serves today as Church Schools Director for the Anglican Province of Christ the King and Vice-President of the American Church Union. She has edited and written numerous parish materials for children, and seven children's novellas set in France and San Francisco (see www.Anglicanpck.org). She has written three novels set in Western Europe published by OakTara: Pilgrimage, Offerings, and Inheritance, based on her extensive travels. The stories explore Christian faith and practice, healing of body and soul, and the sanctity of life. Offerings won the Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Award for 2010.

Christine holds a B.A. in English Literature, and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop and the Maui Writers Retreat. Her extended family includes eight grandchildren, three nieces and one nephew. She lives with her husband and two incredible cats, Lady Jane and Laddie, and is actively involved in her local parish. She feels blessed to write about the joy of being an everyday Christian.

Hana-lani

Only opening their hearts will keep them from plunging into the dark abyss. Old Nani-lei lives in Hana-lani, her family home in rural Hawaii. She looks after her grandson Henry, 52, and his daughter Lucy, 6, who have returned to Maui from Berkeley after the death of Maria, Henry's wife. Henry and Maria,…

Inheritance

She risked everything to save a life… But who would save hers? Vietnamese-American Victoria Nguyen, seventeen, flees to England with a powerful secret…and a determined senator on her trail. Madeleine Seymour, a history professor, and her husband, Jack, a retired wine broker, travel from San Francisco…

Offerings

Jack’s haunted by fears of the past. Madeleine holds a powerful secret. And Rachelle is running away. For the last seventeen years, her husband, Jack, and son, Justin, have been Madeleine Seymour’s world. Then, during Justin’s wedding reception, Jack collapses. Jack needs surgery, and he insists…

Pilgrimage

It was a day when nothing should have gone wrong...but everything did. Madeleine Seymour will never forget what happened twenty-two years ago in her own backyard. She's still riddled with guilt. Hoping to banish the nightmares that haunt her and steal her peace, she travels to Italy with her husband,…