Tulips in Winter: An Excerpt from A Remedy Against Sin

Happy June to you all! When I was thinking about this month’s theme, “Blossoming Love,” I realized that I rarely set a story in summer. Nor do I have many flowers in my novels (or, when I do, I tend to put them in seasons not meant for those flowers)!

All of these thoughts brought to mind my first novel, A Remedy Against Sin, published in 2016, but written over many years. (I wrote the first chapter in 2008, abandoned the story, and then wrote the rest in snatches between 2011 and 2016.)

At the ...