If you like strong female characters who can be feisty and a little flighty, Sara Davison gives you another one in Lost Down Deep, Book One of the Rose Tattoo Trilogy.
If you like male characters who are devoted to and sacrificial in their conduct for the one they love, are strong and committed, definitely have their weaknesses, but know how to be men, you'll enjoy Sara's Jude McCall.
Summer Velasquez is assaulted in her home in the middle of the night. It doesn't end well for her. After considerable time in the hospital because of her injuries, she finds she can't remember the last several years of her life. Her parents, cold and distant as usual, expect to take her home with them while she completes her recovery. After speaking with a detective who hopes to learn the events of the assault, Summer figures a way to leave the hospital sooner than expected. Her selective memory allows her to gather some belongings from the home where she lived, take her car, and head to a small town she selects from looking at maps.
Jude McCall tracks her to the town where he has deep ties and great sorrow mixed with an all-consuming guilt. He hasn't returned for five years but here now, there is so much he needs to do. It all begins with a ruse only because he wants to help the woman he loves as she struggles through a new life with few recent memories but he suspects she knows she could be in danger.
Sara has written a story of renewal, forgiveness, real faith, and recovery of many kinds. There is humor, romance, terror, and harm, but there is also triumph, understanding, commitment, and love. Peripheral characters are well done and contribute a strong presence to the story. Lost Down Deep - and I love this title and cover - is a solid but unique mystery with a parallel love story beneath it all.
Father, you've given Sara all kinds of gifts and talent. Please help her to be able to use all of them in the stories you have for her to tell. Keep her going, Lord, and bless her in the process. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.