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 Christine Sunderland

 Christine Sunderland has been interested in matters of belief since she was sixteen and her father, a Protestant minister, lost his faith.
    Today she is Church Schools Director for the Anglican Province of Christ the King and Vice-President of the American Church Union (Anglicanpck.org). She has edited The American Church Union Church School Series, The Anglican Confirmation Manual, and Summer Lessons. She has authored Pilgrimage, Offerings, Inheritance, Teaching the Church’s Children and seven children’s novellas, the Jeanette series, published by the American Church Union.
                                  For more information on Christine Sunderland: www.christinesunderland.com


Pilgrimage

Book One of the Trilogy




It was a day when nothing should have gone wrong...

                     but everything did.






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Madeleine Seymour will never forget what happened twenty-two years ago in her own backyard. She’s still riddled with guilt.
    
Hoping to banish the nightmares that haunt her and steal her peace, she travels to Italy with her husband, Jack, on a pilgrimage. As a history professor, Madeleine is fascinated by the churches they visit...and what they learn about the lives of the martyrs.
    
But can anything bring her the peace that her soul longs for?



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Inheritance
Book Three of the Trilogy





She risked everything to save a life...but who would save hers?

 




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Vietnamese-American Victoria Nguyen, seventeen, flees to England with a powerful secret…and a determined senator on her trail.

Madeleine Seymour, a history professor, and her husband, Jack, a retired wine broker, travel from San Francisco to London to purchase property for a children’s home—and find much more than land at stake.

Brother Cristoforo, a black Franciscan from the Seymours’ Quattro Coronati orphanage in Rome, wrestles with demons of his past and present.

Woven through the mists of Lent to new life on Easter Day, Inheritance draws the lives of these four characters together to a stunning, unforgettable conclusion.


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Offerings
Book Two of the Trilogy



A poignant story about choices made along the way…
and the miracles of the heart.






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Won the bronze medal in the IPPY Independent Publisher Awards for 2010 for
Religious Fiction

For the last seventeen years, her husband, Jack, and son, Justin, have been Madeleine Seymour's world.  Then, during Justin's wedding reception, Jack collapses.  Jack needs surgery, and he insists it be performed by the doctor who perfected the procedure.  But the doctor isn't reachable, and time is running out.
   
Dr. Rachelle DuPres, plagued by memories of a deadly failure, flees America to search out her roots in her ancestral village in Provence, France.  But as she tries to locate the graves of her Catholic uncles and her Jewish parents, will their roles in the Holocaust bring more angst--or the answers she so desperately seeks?




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