Jill Penrod: 43 books

Seth has always fixed everyone else. Now it's his turn to be broken. Returning home from a mission trip to Mexico, seminary student Seth Roberts is tired, grieving, and wondering what God is doing in his life.  To make matters worse, he has promised to help friend and college student Tom Van...

Homeschooled senior Holly MacGuire is facing a few new things in her life.  She’s got newly divorced parents, a new chronic illness, and she’s the new girl in town.  If she has her way, she’ll climb under a blanket and not come out until it’s time for graduation.  But when her mom forces...

Unable to get home to the mountains for Christmas, Matt Tucker spends the holidays in the south with his college roommate Tom Van der Haas, unaware how eventful the warm Christmas season will be, for Tom's ex-fiancée has come home, and she's got a new boyfriend who doesn't like Tom, a boyfriend who...

When Marley Owen's stepdad attacks him, his mother puts him on a bus and sends him halfway across the country to stay with his sister and her kids.  As a recent high school graduate, Marley is lost and alone in a new city, no idea how to deal with his difficult, free spirit sister or her collection...

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Matt Tucker and Dana Schneider, as seen through the eyes of Tony Carpenter.  Last seen in Courting the Clearwaters, Shawn Carpenter's little brother Tony is now in high school, and he's tired of living in his perfect big brother's shadow.  He wants to...

Stephen Valentino finds it's hard to go from homelessness to a life with eerily friendly guys who keep saying they want to help him. Staying with new acquaintances Matt Tucker and Tom Van der Haas for the summer, Stephen is in a new world, with a job, friends, and maybe even a girlfriend. But he isn't...

For college junior Shawn Carpenter, life was work, family, and paying penance for sins of the past. Then a friend introduces him to God and invites him to join a college youth group, and his world turns upside down.  Suddenly he's surrounded by new friends, has a new job, and finds himself attracted...

Jake Branigan is the pastor's kid, and everyone thinks they know him.  What they don't know is how tired he is of his boring, normal, predictable, respectable life.  Even living in an apartment with friends Stephen and Matt doesn't help with the feeling that he's missing something. However,...

Follow one young man's path to maturity and love in this first book of the Terry's Garden series, stories of a romance that touches generations and a garden where God heals broken hearts.  Christian romance for the young at heart. Bud is an old man who dresses in strange clothes and lives...

For generations two peoples have fought over the mountains of Thanador.  The native Tarra'ans hate the recent arrivals, the Contolte, and eventually that hatred turns to war.  Yaotl and Jensen, though, are a Tarra'an and a Contolte who live as brothers.  Yearning to stay together , they find no...

Cherokee Jones isn't a big fan of college student and horseman extraordinaire Matt Tucker, but since they work on the same ranch this summer, he's stuck with him.  But maybe it's not Matt Kee doesn't like; maybe it's that Matt reminds him of the reason he's living in a cabin at the corner of a horse...

When Brenda Van der Haas’ parents left her with her cousin to spend some time in Europe, she didn’t expect them to be gone two years.  And now that they’re back, calling her away from her cousin and her friends for senior year, Brenda is angry. But bold Brenda can’t stay angry for...

Susan Van der Haas has just graduated high school, and she has no idea what to do with her life.  At her mother's suggestion, she decides to spend the summer as a nanny, hoping God will help her see things clearly before fall. Susan wasn't counting on the arrival of her wards' older brother,...

For Sally Sanderson, college is a chance to become a new person and discard the lonely tomboy she was in high school.  Rooming with new friend Holly MacGuire, Sally begins her hunt for new friends and a new boyfriend, and it’s almost scary what she’s willing to become to get what she wants. But...