So Surges the Sea

St. Ninian's Sanctuary Book Twelve

So Surges the Sea cover--rocky ocean in the mist

Oscar is always fine… 

Years ago God made it clear to Oscar Morelli he wasn’t a leader. So when he’s strong-armed into helping with the youth for a few weeks, along with his good friend Sue Ellen Bailey, he knows it’s a bad idea. Nobody agrees with him, but they don’t know the truth.

Sue suspected Oscar had been living with damaging lies and grief for years, but she hadn’t seen it clearly until they start working together. The youth need him. The island needs him. Most of all, she needs him, but first he has to face down ghosts from his past. She only hopes she can help him find his way.

It will take a few unruly teens with their dangerous dramas to remind this pair what it means to trust God and each other and how to accept God’s powerful purposes in their lives.

So Surges the Sea is book twelve in the St. Ninian’s Sanctuary series, small-town Christian romance with a mysterious island twist.

Jill's Notes

  • Oscar and Sue Ellen have been on the island since the beginning.
  • This book dealt with more of the original staff than many, including the families of the teens. I am terrible about timelines, and it took me forever to sift through older books and figure out how old the kids would be. I still might be wrong.
  • In a previous book, a couple of the teens tried to set up Oscar and Kai. Kai ended up marrying the island owner, Dusk.
  • This is largely a book about the voices in our heads that keep us from doing what God wants. I don’t know about you, but I hear those WAY more than I should. 
  • I’m not sure why it took this long for someone on the island to ask for a youth group. 
  • This book is in Kindle Unlimited.
Oscar and Sue Ellen on St. Ninian's island
Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story... Ps. 107:2a NIV