One of the initial ideas that came to my mind as I writing The Keeper’s Secret was the way someone’s marriage falls apart. That was something I didn’t know much about. My parents had been married forever, as had their parents. My in-laws, too, were married for eons. Before hubby and I were married, we went to a Pre-Cana program for couples planning marriage and after that we went to an Engaged Encounter program. We wanted to be as well prepared for marriage as we had been for our careers.

After we had been married for a while, we volunteered to head the Pre-Cana team at our church. We did that for seven years and offered lots of advice to young people getting ready for marriage. We weren’t experts, but we were aware of the pitfalls in marriage that should be avoided.

Then a friend of mine confessed she was having serious marital problems. In every marriage, there will be arguments and disagreements, but this went beyond that. My friend’s belief in herself was shattered by her spouse. He destroyed her self-esteem. His anger frightened her. It got to the point that if I didn’t hear from my friend, I worried for her safety.

Eventually, she filed for divorce and though going through a divorce was still difficult for her, I was relieved because I no longer feared for her safety.

In The Keeper’s Secret, Evie’s husband is unfaithful. He also abuses Evie and threatens to hurt their child. In marriage a man should love his wife as he loves his own body. (See Ephesians 5:28.) Marriage should never involve abuse.

The Keeper's Secret

Shucker' s Point, New Jersey never had a murder until now. Jack St. Marie, a well-known research scientist is missing, and Trooper Bryce Johnson believes the worst of Jack' s wife, Evie.

In high school, Bryce loved Evie--enough to want to marry her, but that was before he witnessed her phone in a bogus bomb scare. And only two months before Jack disappeared, Bryce saw Evie aiming a gun at her husband. Can Bryce believe in Evie's innocence when her husband' s body is found in a fishing dredge twenty miles out at sea? Could the most beautiful woman in Shucker' s Point be capable of such a heinous crime? He doesn't want to believe it.

Bryce refuses to let his heart guide the investigation...until someone shoots at Evie. Then he must protect her. But can he protect his heart?

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