Tidbit: Theme

Sometimes I'm asked--other times taken to task for--why I wrote such a dark story in A HEART DECEIVED. The world is such a black place already. Why add another shade? Why the flippity-flap could I not pen a tale about dolphins or puppies or magical fairies who spread cheer and glitter?

Because sometimes writers create a story that simply reflects what's going on in their life at the time. 

Such is the case for A Heart Deceived. I wrote that story during a dark period in my life, when everything was falling apart. I seriously questioned where God was and if He saw where I was. Hence the creation of Miri Brayden and Ethan Goodwin. They both end up in tragic situations, asking the same questions I did.

But (and I've always got a big but) darkness doesn't win--as it didn't in my own life. No matter what kind of a pit your life is currently stuck in, God sees. God knows. God loves.

A Heart Deceived is based on Psalm 139:7-15. . .

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you