About the Author
Faith, family, psychology and stories that would not let go.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read a little about me. My life has taken turns I never could have planned for myself, and over and over again I have learned that God's plans are always better.
I’m a cradle Catholic who married the man of my dreams—I literally had a dream about him three weeks before we met. We’ve now been married for more than twenty years. We’ve had our ups and downs, but we are incredibly blessed, and I am so grateful for the life God has built with us.
Before the Novels
A life immersed in psychology.
A week after my husband and I married, we moved from Florida to Mississippi so I could earn my PhD in Clinical Psychology. For the next five years, my brain was overflowing with psychology. I loved it. It was challenging and fascinating.
It is still challenging and fascinating, and I still love it—though now I love it from afar. God had other plans, and His plans are always better.
After earning my doctorate and moving back to Florida, the idea of writing a novel entered my mind. We did not have children at the time, which meant I had lots of free time—though I certainly did not realize that then—so I started writing.
Writing Begins
The first novel—and a very different plan.
It took me several years, but I finished writing my first novel in 2012. I can proudly say that it is not good! What it did give me, though, was the beginning of an education in writing.
Our family was growing too. We were blessed with three beautiful children, each brought to us through the gift of adoption. Our boys are eighteen months apart and came to us as toddlers.
Sometime before our second son came home, the characters Jonah and Bria entered my mind. Then they disappeared beneath the very real demands of two energetic preschoolers and my intense trauma-focused work at a nonprofit.
The Story That Wouldn't Leave
Then Bria and Jonah came back.
As the months passed and being the mom of two active boys became a little less overwhelming, Bria and Jonah returned. I tried to ignore them, and for a while it worked. But eventually they went from popping into my mind every now and then to never leaving.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t ignore them. Through prayer, it became obvious that theirs was a story I needed to tell.
I worked through the self-doubt—and there was a lot of it!—and began writing during Lent of 2015. The Light is the result.
God's Timing
More stories. One more beautiful blessing.
I have been blessed to continue writing novel after novel since The Light, creating characters and worlds I never imagined when I first sat down to write.
Even more wonderfully, we were blessed to add a beautiful baby girl to our family. She rounded out our family in the most perfect way, and it turns out an eleven-year gap between children is the perfect spacing.
A Little More of My Story
Life beyond the writing desk.
Faith, family, travel, ordinary moments, and the people I love are all part of the life surrounding the stories.
To My Readers
You are part of this story too.
I’m so grateful to each of my readers. Thank you for the kind words you email me and the lovely reviews you leave. Thank you most of all for your prayers.
I am grateful that God chose me to tell the stories I’ve been blessed to tell and to create the characters I’ve been able to create.
Happy Reading!
Jacqueline
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.St. John Paul II
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