Jerry B. Jenkins — American Novelist born on September 23, 1949,

Jerry Bruce Jenkins is an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as co-author of the Left Behind series of books with Tim LaHaye. Jenkins has written over 150 books, including romance novels, mysteries, and children's adventures, as well as non-fiction. His works usually feature evangelical Christians as protagonists... (wikipedia)

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.