Books
MALARIAL FEVERS, a historical novel based on Harriet Sage Bennett's personal diaries and papers, documents her journey from the Kansas prairie to Mozambique in the late 1880s. Harriet describes the daily lives of early missionaries to Mozambique. When they moved to their own mission station, with their two boys, they had to learn how to speak an unwritten language, grow crops for their own survival, defend themselves from wild animals and deal with local wars.
UNSPOKEN FAREWELL is Jonna-Lynn's second historical novel encompassing the years she lived in Portugal, Mozambique and then, Rhodesia. Amanda Bechtel goes to Lisbon to study Portuguese and lives a boarding house with other university students. She discovers what it means to live in a country with secret police. Soon after beginning to work in Mozambique, she is deported. Amanda is faced with several decisions: to leave the mission field altogether, go to another country until she can reapply for a visa to Mozambique or accept reassignment to another country. The two men who have tugged at her heart strings, a missionary dentist in Angola and a freedom-fighter in Mozambique, also force Amanda to make difficult choices.
The third novel is UNPREDICTABLE CROSSING includes some of the characters from UNSPOKEN FAREWELL. This setting is on a cruise ship several years after Mozambique's war. Tristeza Vilanculos, the only survivor of a village massacre during the war, encounters the man who gave the order ten years later. Despite all of her efforts to avoid him during the voyage, circumstances bring them together with startling results.
