Tears in the Desert:
A Novel

2020 Word Award Winner for Christian Fiction - Suspense

Eleven-year-old Raine Hunter’s family moves from the town of Blackheart Bay, Nova Scotia to Desolation Creek in the Australian Outback, where her father will begin pastoring a small church. But not long after they begin their new lives, a tragedy befalls the family.

Devastated, Raine’s parents leave the ministry and move their family back to Blackheart Bay. There, Raine grows into a young woman but is haunted by the guilt she lives with because of the tragedy, and the accusation and anger she sees in her father’s eyes whenever she looks at him. At eighteen, after an ugly quarrel with her father, Raine leaves home and moves to Halifax.

Years later, Raine’s father has suffered a heart attack, and her brother, a widowed youth pastor with two young daughters, has vanished under suspicious circumstances. Raine reluctantly returns to her hometown, struggling with bitterness for her father, fear for her missing brother, and the responsibility of caring for her nieces.

Softcover Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5

Page Count: 120

About the Author:

Karen V. Robichaud is the author of five novels, including Leigh Falls, Where the River Flows, Beyond Winter’s Shadow, An Evening Sky in Autumn, and The Unforgiving Sea. The Unforgiving Sea won the 2014 Word Guild Contemporary Fiction Award and was also shortlisted for the Grace Irwin Award. She lives in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. At present, she is at work on her seventh novel.