Junk Love

What if the healthy choice for your loved one isn't you?

¿¿A hearty novel about relationships, faith, and sacrificial love.

Holly Samuelsson is a dietitian all about healthy choices, but she won't be any man's broccoli: she wants to be desired. After another relationship fail, Holly swears off dating and decides to make her own family through in-vitro fertilization or adoption.

But when a mind-blowing man asks Holly out, she must choose whether to repeat her mistakes, maintain her course toward single motherhood, or try something new: an outdated approach to dating.

Cora Martin is recovering from a death-defying detour as her mentally ill sister's sidekick when a shocking encounter derails her plan for college. A false accusation drags Cora into court where she must decide who deserves her trust.

Three people have to answer the question: Is my love enough, or do I do more harm than good?

Help yourself to a story with substance. Surprises, too, but nothing weird like Jell-O salad with hot dogs or cookies with raisins. After all, if God wanted raisins in cookies, we wouldn't have chocolate.

Short-listed for the 2022 Grindstone Literary Novel Prize, Junk Love is the first book in the Fort Herring Trilogy.