Two tales of Balia featuring unusual male leads who need a little help fitting into their worlds.
Gypsy Heart: After an attack leaves Christianna Habersham, daughter of a wealthy jewelry guilder, 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 in the world. When she needs help, he returns for her.
They are wed with no real knowledge of one another or the worlds in which each was raised. As Christi fights to tame the wandering gypsy, and Marcus fights to learn about the heart of a woman, it becomes all too easy to drift apart for the sake of peace. Eventually they must learn to put each other and their love for TrueGod above all else, or they will lose something they love and themselves in the process.
Moon Bird: 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 alone. Although she has traveled across Balia to speak of TrueGod, she has no idea how to touch this man, who cannot communicate in any way. Soon she realizes an entire village thrives on the island, and Yaron fears this village for reasons Laurelin can't understand.
Together, they discover the secrets behind this island world, ancient secrets that the leaders will kill to hide. Not only does the pair face danger from the village, but danger comes from the lands beyond the island, as well, and Laurelin and Yaron may be the only ones with the ability to save the village.
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. Fantasy with a Christian worldview.
Other books by Jill Penrod
Jill Penrod wrote her first novel in high school. It was a space opera (she watched Star Wars A LOT), and it was not great literature. But she persevered, graduating college with top honors in writing. Since then, she’s published more than thirty novels. She now has six series available in several genres, including Christian teen romance, sweet romance, and Christian fantasy stories. None of them are space operas.
Jill lives in Kentucky with her husband and college-aged son. She has three other adult children out there doing adult things like work and marriage. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys crafts and photography and spoils her long-haired Chihuahua Sparrow. Recently she fulfilled her dream of moving to the country, although it has yet to be seen if this city mouse can become a country mouse or not.
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