Jill Penrod: 43 books

School's back in session, and it may be a year to remember… When college junior Tom Van der Haas asks his cousin Eric and friend Matt to be his roommates, he has no idea what he's in for.  Along with their friends Samantha and Dana, the guys will tackle a youth lock-in, family dramas, a...

Nobody understands why Shanna Grayson works so hard to be invisible, but some days it gets old, and she wishes someone in the world understood her. Then her friends’ landlord hires a new maintenance man, and he might be lonelier than she is. He’s also angry and lost, and she isn’t sure it’s...

Tori Princeton comes home from summer at her grandmother’s house to find her house gone, her parents bankrupt, and her plans for college dissolved. Living in a partially finished hotel, she and her family have no idea what will come next or who embezzled money from her dad’s company. There’s...

After Sebastian Cross's parents divorce, he has to spend summers with his dad, far from everything he knows. Fortunately, his dad lives next to the Kentons, three houses of family that includes grandparents, cousins, and one girl his age who welcomes him with a sunny smile. When his winter life with...

New Release When Colt Granbury's mother remarries, he gets a new stepdad and a new brother, but the changes aren't what he'd hoped for. His new brother doesn't seem to care about him, and while his stepdad loves him, Colt knows he's not as important as his stepdad's son or their new baby. He...

When Princess is nine, her mother abandons her.  She finds herself alone in the swamp waiting for her absentee father, who travels the river to make a living.  That same day she finds Cree at her door, the boy who lives two houses down on her tiny patch of land.  He’s twelve and strong, the first...

Carmen teaches dance at Luke's studio at the Casa Flanigan farm, and she hasn't told anyone yet that her plans to travel with a dance troupe were derailed after her aunt, who raised her, suffered a stroke. Instead, she tries to teach and care for her aunt and grieve her lost future all on her own. Carl...

After losing his mom to cancer, Kincade McClanahan plans a trip across the country where he can breathe the air, see the sights, and forget his pain. A friend gives him a few destinations to begin his journey, sending him to friends and family in the hope someone can help Kincade see that he needs...

Like many kids on the river, Emilie and Luc are married for the benefits of their families.  Emilie considers Luc an attractive boy, and she hopes to find the happiness her parents had.  Luc, however, has no understanding of women or wives, and he just wants Emilie to care for his ailing grandfather...

When Yeardleigh’s papa murders her mama, an unlikely pair steals this city girl to the swamp for safety.  Twelve year-old Yeardleigh finds herself left with a family with two boys and a girl, and she has to learn all the ways of river life, nothing like her city existence. As Yeardleigh...

Bold, sassyTiffy Langstrom has messed everything up.  She finished freshman year of college hopelessly in debt, and her family plans to punish her without mercy, so she runs away to stay with her high school friend Holly MacGuire.  Holly is glad to help out, but Tiffy doesn’t want pity or even...

St. Ninian’s Sanctuary is a spiritual retreat center on a mysterious island so far south it’s nearly in Antarctica. At this center guests find healing, hope, and renewal, or so says its website. Ione Stavros needs it to be true, because she needs healed. Memories of horror haunt her, and she’s...

After suffering an injury that will lay him up for nearly a year, St. Ninian’s Sanctuary’s maintenance man Huck Deveraux is angry. For years working at the spiritual island retreat center has been his sole identity, and it keeps demons from his past at bay. Now he’s alone and unsure who he really...

When thirty-year-old Sage Montgomery loses his wife and in-laws, he ends up with custody of his teen sister-in-law, who is angry and impossible to reach. Hoping they will heal and refresh, his parents send them both to St. Ninian's Sanctuary, a spiritual retreat center on an island on the southern...