Lee Carver is a hybrid author in every sense: fiction and nonfiction, traditionally and independently published. She’s a back-row alto in the church choir, plays piano, makes baby quilts with Quilting for Life, and gardens in partnership with her husband Darrel. She is fond of all things chocolate, Christian fiction, and flavored decaf coffee.
During her husband’s international career, Lee lived and reared their two children in Greece, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Indonesia, Brazil, and Spain, countries which become settings in her novels. After Darrel’s retirement, they served as volunteer missionaries in the Brazilian Amazon, where he converted his military flight training to serve as a jungle pilot. The Carvers have settled in Fort Worth and remain active in aviation and community missionary concerns. They’ve been married fifty-eight years and have two adult children and five grandchildren, four to date who have graduated and secured good jobs!
About Me:
When my husband, Darrel, and I moved back to the United States to care for his aging parents, many people encouraged me to write the story of how and why he had taken early retirement from his international business career to serve as a missionary pilot in the Brazilian Amazon. Only after ushering his parents through the golden gates of heaven could I consider the project. That massive task, with God’s guidance, produced my most meaningful and successful book. You can download Flying for Jesus, as a free PDF on the home page of a website with hundreds of mission photos, https://www.amazoncurrents.homestead.com . It’s also sold without profit as an ebook and print book on Amazon.
Missionaries are often portrayed in movies and novels as prudes, negative-thinking, and self-serving. I wanted show them as the dynamic, dedicated and loving people they are. The first attempt was the novel Love Takes Flight, and then the self-published Call to the Jungle series of three novels. My next two novels featured Europe, where we had lived and traveled extensively. Finally, my novels (3) and novellas (3) have settled, like me, in Texas. The uniting theme is that believers in Christ are real people, with all the complexities of life, the drama and decisions leading, hopefully, to personal growth in Him as part of the plot resolution. While I don’t exactly write romance genre novels, I just can’t seem to write one without a romantic thread central to the plot. So, whether historical (2) or contemporary (8), you’ll find a wholesome romance cooking in each one.
I tried to retire and, in fact, gave up editing and formatting the works of others, but I so thoroughly enjoy writing. It’s a game with no end, played with an infinite number of pieces arranged in infinite way. So long as our Heavenly Father keeps this desire alive, I can’t not write.
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A Depression-era newspaper typesetter secretly writes as the character she would like to be and dares to hope for the life she may have missed.
Rose Coughlin, injured in the wreck that killed her father, hides more than one secret. As the Great Depression deepens, she covertly submits optimistic articles as Lorraine Summerhill, the most exciting, capable woman she can imagine. Astounded by her success, she awakens to the possibility of walking gracefully and thinking like the fictional Lorraine. But will she lose the income that supports her and her mother if the editor-in-chief discovers he’s paying his minimally educated niece to write articles?
Alice Coughlin lives in the shroud of her widowhood until Rose challenges her to reengage in life and even consider the possibility of marriage again. Rediscovering her passion for accounting, she endeavors to help a friend get his business back on track. While setting the numbers straight, she earns Lawrence’s gratitude and respect, but also the dangerous notice of the embezzler. Could this be living life too fully?
Dan Martin has rarely dated since his career choice of veterinary medicine triggered rejection by his sweetheart. When Rose, whom he befriended in their teens, comes to his practice with a seriously ill pet, their relationship flourishes.
Preparing to move from his parents’ home, he hopes to find a level-headed woman who will be his partner through calving cows, long hours, and midnight emergencies. Can their love of animals fit together his calling and a fulfilling family life? And is Rose too fragile for the path he has chosen? AMAZON