YA Christian fiction books
for those who walk through fire.
Contemporary YA Christian Fiction Novels
Stay tuned! I am currently shopping for an agent to represent my YA novels. Sneak a peek at what I’m working on.
Seventeen-year-old Quinn Matteson is trapped in a dangerous survival situation with her worst nightmare: her twin brother who knows what she did with her boyfriend and is determined to force her hand.Â
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Sixteen-year-old Lee is such a phenomenal actress, not even her friends know the secrets she hides. Unfortunately, her acting skills don’t work on her neighbor’s grief-stricken brother, who is himself a trained performer.Â
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A 2023 Genesis Contest finalist
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Collette’s freshman year is disrupted by the arrival of a Russian boy with a hair-trigger temper and eyes that look at her with more hate than they do anybody else. Now her parents expect her to do the impossible and treat him like a brother. But she can’t even pretend to like him because the contempt is mutual.Â
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As a teen with Sensory Processing Disorder, Rhapsodie Welles has spent her entire life avoiding stimulating environments. Until she’s paired with Sage—fidgety, loud, and over-the-top in every way—for an eight-week school project that’s bound to push her over the edge.Â
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Weston McKay is the cockiest boy Blake has ever met, but he has something she desperately needs. Something that has the potential to ruin Nasonville High’s beloved Principal Jake—known also to Blake as Dad.
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Stand-Alone Short Stories:
A story to open your eyes.
Jude Rohmann was that kid, the one everyone picked on and no one wanted to be seen with.
After twelve months of pretending he didn’t exist, Hanna finally decided to stand up for him.
Then she wished she hadn’t.
A story of chance & suspense.
He looks like someone who just lost a prizefighting match. And now he’s in the diner—Raine’s only refuge from the cruel world.
Maybe if she serves him with a smile, this angry boy will move on when he’s done. As long he doesn’t notice her hands first.
A friends-to-lovers romance…or not.
Val and Zach have been best friends for years. He’s the shy, sweet counterpoint to her intrepidness—and her hero from That Night, the one that would’ve broken her.Â
Then she learns something about him that turns her world upside down.
A story of redemption.
Mia’s days of anonymity are over. Everyone, it seems, has seen what she did.
So when her secret fixation with Four-Eyed Jay—the awkward-cute boy next door—becomes an obsession, Mia decides to take a chance.Â
A story of grief & hope.
Weeks after her father’s death, Bea is left with shaken faith, a stepfamily she doesn’t fit into, and exactly one friend—the quirky boy from down the road whom she could pummel in an arm-wrestling contest. Then her stepmother gives her a flock of baby chicks.
A short story adventure
A field of boulders.
A Halloween night.
Three teens.Â
One finds treasure, the others find … something more disturbing.
Short Story Series: Seasons of Kane
A tale of loss, redemption, perseverance . . . and sweet romance.
Kane doesn’t need the constant whispers to remind him of the accident that claimed the lives of three friends. He remembers every time he passes a mirror.Â
Then he meets Claudia, the only person who can’t see the glaring evidence of his involvement in the accident. But the deeper he gets to know her, the harder it is to hide.
When Kane returns to Ohio for his final year of high school, he must face those who still aren’t convinced of his innocence.
Kane isn’t convinced either, and he’s determined to figure out what happened that night, if for no other reason than to prove to Angela he didn’t kill her sister.
“Seventeen-year-old males have no self-control. They’re practically feral.”
That’s the assumption Kane finds himself rebelling against when Claudia comes to Ohio for Christmas. He’s determined to prove his love for her is real. But as he gets a look at life through the eyes of a blind girl, it becomes about so much more than defying low expectations.
courage:
n. the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear.
fire:
n. a burning mass of material such as the culture through which young Christians walk every day.
When you pass through the rivers they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire you will not be burned.
Isaiah 43:2