Jill Penrod: 43 books

In the fifth Girls Aglow book, revisit Nita Welles, Brenda Van der Haas’s friend and Holly’s new roommate and fashion design partner.  Nita is now in school and teaching yoga, but nobody knows she’s really hiding from her broken family and her fears of turning out just like them.  Then she...

Chloe Templeton’s sister is the maid of honor for Julianne Summers and Tom Van der Haas’ wedding, and Chloe has the honor of being the photographer.  For a week she gets to hang out on the beach with friends and, if she’s lucky, this wedding will start her photography career.  Unfortunately,...

In the city of Balivor, orphans work in the dangerous new factories, facing danger and death daily. One young man, an orphan himself known only as the wryneck, sacrifices everything to rescue them. Then he disappears, and hope among the orphans disappears with him. Two friends, orphans themselves...

When two new stable boys arrive at Hawthorn Castle, everyone knows they aren’t who they say, but laundry mistress Valerie has no idea their secrets will change her entire life.  The deity TrueGod, though, has planned this crossing of paths for many years, and before all is revealed, Valerie and...

Finn Jansen isn’t broken. Yes, he lost his mother. Yes, his dad and brother had their issues. Yet none of it was about Finn, and he hates that everyone sees him as broken. But Piper Johnson, a girl he barely knows, suspects there’s more to Finn. Unfortunately, Finn is her sister’s best friend,...

For Vion Yorraan, marriage had gotten old, but as the son of a woman who married six times, he never expected much from the institution in the first place.  As for Dianna, who lost her mama young and had a papa who never got over the loss, her attempts to keep the peace in their tired marriage weren’t...

Meandering around a volcanic ridge, through jungle lowlands, and over salt flats, Dusk Lane is a route only the most desperate travelers find, and without strong guides nobody can survive the path through the beautiful and dangerous interior of Chimelu.  Rika is one such guide, but this group...

Taken from his home in his youth, Nikolai is now a guard protecting the royal mistresses in the Most Glorious Land of Long.  When invaders from his homeland kidnap the girls—and everyone else in the summer palace—he begins a journey to get help for those missing and find the truth behind the...

When eight year-old Leo Jansen watches Meg Kenton move in across the street, he has no idea the bossy girl will become his best friend. She is pink and sunshine and boldness, and while Leo’s family falls apart, her world is his sanctuary. Then she leaves for two years that becomes four, and Leo’s...

Shipwrecked on an island in the empty restricted zone, Laurelin is rescued by an unusual and deformed man named Yaron who speaks to the birds and seems to live here alone.  Although she has traveled across Balia to speak of TrueGod, she has no idea how to touch this man, who cannot communicate in...

One fateful day changes everything for Christianna Habersham, daughter of a wealthy jewelry guilder.  After an attack leaves her unconscious and injured at the side of the road, an exiled gypsy man finds and cares for her, then leaves her in her provincial Boreal town on his quest to find his place...

Enter Balia, a world not so different from our own.  Explore lush landscapes and rich cultures as Balia’s creator, TrueGod, moves through many times and places to find lost and broken people to call his own. In the ancient desert town of Alagor, nobody is more lost and broken than Banar,...

Needing to escape from a painful family situation, college junior Matt Tucker jumps at a chance to lead horse rides at a Mexican Christian summer camp with his uncle. He isn't sure how he feels about God at the moment, but anything is better than watching his parents come apart. What he doesn't...

Join college freshman Eric Van der Haas on a cross-country journey of discovery, tears, and healing. Since his mother's death four years ago, Eric Van der Haas has spent two weeks with his brother Aaron.  Suddenly, as a favor to his aunt, he and Aaron are thrown together for weeks to deliver...