New and notable author: Rebecca Deel

This author is different from the ones I have been doing these blog posts about. I believe she is a Christian, but most of her books I have read would not be classified as Christian fiction....but very clean fiction.

Way back in February, I ran across a book that sounded Christian - it may have even been recommended by someone.  Midnight Escape, #1 in the Fortress Security Series.  It sounded really good, so I borrowed it from Kindle Unlimited, and there it say until last week when I was trying to find something different to read.

 I loved the book. There was no Christian content at all, but it was completely clean and curse free. (Yes, Tyndale Publishing and author Ryan Steck, you CAN write fiction novels about military guys and not use bad language. Imagine that.)

Here is the plot for the first book, Midnight Escape: 

"Saving her sister might require the ultimate sacrifice.

Brenna Mason's sister has been missing for more than a week. She failed Dana years before with disastrous consequences. She won't do it again. She's determined to find Dana and bring her home. But someone is just as determined to stop her. Within hours of her arrival in town, Brenna's life is threatened. As a writer, Brenna crafts killer sentences, but she doesn't have the skills to take on a real killer. To save Dana, her only hope is to team up with a man who has his own agenda.

As a former Navy SEAL, Eli Wolfe saw more than enough innocents slaughtered to populate his dreams with bloody ghosts. After his PI mentor is murdered, Eli hunts for the killer. What he finds is a woman with a mission bigger than his. But Brenna doesn't know that Eli asked Dana for a favor which might have led to her disappearance.

Working together to search for Brenna's sister, they discover connections to a human trafficking ring Eli and his SEAL team encountered a few years earlier. With only 48 hours until Dana is lost in the black underbelly of human trafficking, Eli and Brenna must rescue her before the deadline. When Brenna is kidnapped by the traffickers, Eli races to find both sisters before time runs out. For Eli, the stakes have never been higher. Now that he's fallen in love with Brenna, losing her might cost Eli his sanity and his life."

Fortress Security is about a team of men - and women - who guard and rescue people. And the books are really good. After I finished the first book,  I read the second, and immediately wanted to buy the whole series in paperback. This is a series I will want to read again. The author comes up with great characters, plots, suspense, and a lot of action. These are the kind of books that I love to read.

And the kind I want in paperback.

Problem: There are 16 books in the series. Thankfully, most are $10.99, and a few were less than that....but that is a lot of books to buy at one time. After I read the fourth book, I decided to buy all of the ones I had not read yet and finish reading them in paperback, other than #16, which is not in paperback yet.

Since I had the sixth book coming in paperback, I didn't want to read the e-book, so I checked out the author's other books. She has another 16 book series, and one she is still writing that has five books so far, The Maple Valley Series. So I started the first book in her 16 book Otter Creek Series. It is totally different, but is just as good. I have read four of those so far, and the first three had definite Christian content. Four did not, but still stuck to the clean and curse free writing. The first three books are about the Cahill triplets - Meghan, Madison, and Serena. The fourth book is about their brother, Josh. (Can you imagine being a guy and having triplet sisters?!)

This series is set in a small town, and so far centers around the police force in that town. 

And of course I want to buy them all in paperback. But that will have to wait. I do have bills to pay. :)

There are a couple of her books that show shirtless guys - not the whole torso - but from reading reviews, all of her books are completely clean, curse free, and sex free. In fact, I just read book #7 in the Fortress Series that is one of the book with a shirtless guy on the front.....and there are definitely no sex scenes, or mentions of the guy being shirtless while kissing. (He does remove his shirt a couple of times to have burns on his back treated).

What is unusual about this author is I cannot find her on social media at all. She does have a website, but no way to contact her. I was going to contact her and tell her how much I am enjoying her books.

She is definitely one of the best authors I have read that does not write fiction that is Christian.

Yet her books definitely have a Christian world view.

I do read Christian fiction for more than the lack of bad language and lack of sex scenes. I have helped and encouraged so often by what I have read in a Christian fiction novel.

But I am not so pro-Christian fiction that I have to have Christian content overflowing on every page. It is just nice to read a book that you know isn't going to have bad content and bad language in. 

And this author accomplishes that.

About the author:

Rebecca Deel is a preacher’s kid with a black belt in karate. She teaches business classes at a private four-year college in Nashville, Tennessee. She plays the piano at church, writes freelance articles, and runs interference for her family’s Westies. She’s been married to her amazing husband for more than twenty years and is the proud mom of two grown sons. She delivers monthly devotions to the women’s group at her church and conducts seminars in personal safety, money management, and writing. Her articles have been published in ONE Magazine, Contact, and Co-Laborer, and she was profiled in the June 2010 Williamson edition of Nashville Christian Family magazine. Rebecca completed her Doctor of Arts degree in Economics and wears her favorite Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt when life turns ugly.

Check out her website at rebeccadeelbooks.com

Book trailer for the first book in the Fortress Security Series: