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J.M. Kirkley is an award winning author of the Christian Historical Romance novel, A Writing Upon the Sand. She received the Artisan Book Reviews Book Excellence Award for this debut novel.

By trade, she’s a storykeeper. She's a faith-based counselor who specializes in grief and trauma recovery. By night, she researches and writes grace-filled Christian historical fiction.

She calls East Texas home. Her favorite pastimes include visiting museums and art festivals, refinishing furniture, touring coastal offices of the National Weather Service with her meteorologist son-in-law, and making memories with family and friends.

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“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”
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“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”
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