Goodreads asked Rachel Runnalls:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Rachel Runnalls I wrote 'HIDING - every scar has a story' out of my own wrestle with the hard stories I heard from my friends in high school, and youth I worked with both inside the church and at a youth emergency shelter in my city. I am a pastor's kid, and my home life growing up was safe and loving. When I was 14 a friend of mine disclosed some of their history of family abuse and it really hit me - how could that happen? And then as I grew older, the question became - how could a supposedly good God let that happen? So a lot of Jon White's character and home life come out of my own experience wrestling with doubt and the church.

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