Jill Penrod

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  • Bibliography:
    74 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2013
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Boys of Summer

1 - Courting the Clearwaters (Aug-2013)
2 - Yucatan Cowboy (Sep-2013)
3 - Cross Country (Sep-2013)
4 - Measuring Up (Nov-2013)
5 - All I Want for Christmas (Nov-2013)
6 - Wayfarer Beach (Feb-2014)
7 - Salvaging Stephen (Mar-2014)
8 - Waylaid (Jun-2014)
9 - Knowing Jake (Dec-2014)
10 - Second Son (May-2015)
11 - If the Sun (Jul-2015)

Casa Flanigan

1 - The Walkabout Scribe (Nov-2017)
2 - The Aunt Whisperer (Dec-2018)

Girls Aglow

1 - Sugar Rush (Aug-2014)
2 - Drifting Home (Oct-2014)
3 - Low Visibility (Dec-2014)
4 - Farmer's Daughter (Feb-2015)
5 - Pose (Mar-2015)
6 - Snapshot (Jun-2015)
7 - Moving Days (Nov-2015)
8 - Heart Slide (Jan-2016)
9 - Olden Days (Oct-2017)

The Sekou Saga: A Tale of Balia in Four Parts

1 - Chessa's Rescue (Nov-2020)
2 - Dane's Mountain (Dec-2020)

St. Ninian's Sanctuary

1 - Beneath the Broom Tree (Oct-2016)
2 - As the Mist Scatters (Apr-2017)
3 - Beyond the Borderlands (Apr-2018)
4 - Eventide (Apr-2019)

Tales of Balia

1 - Desert Rains (Nov-2013)
2 - Moonset Child (Jun-2014)
3 - Spindrift (May-2014)
4 - Gypsy Heart (Oct-2014)
5 - Dusk Lane (Oct-2014)
6 - Misflitch (Dec-2014)
7 - Luminosity (Jun-2015)
8 - Moon Bird (Aug-2015)
9 - Most Glorious Land (Jul-2016)
10 - The Wryneck (Sep-2017)

Terry's Garden

1 - Fat Caterpillars (May-2016)
2 - The Lion and the Ladybug (May-2016)
3 - Follow the Firefly (Dec-2016)
4 - Praying Home the Mantis (Sep-2017)
5 - The No-See-Um of Dragonfly Creek (Jul-2018)
6 - The Seventeen-Year Cicada (Sep-2019)

Trilogy on the River

1 - Swamp Rats (Aug-2015)
2 - Swamp Wife (Jul-2015)
3 - Swamp Song (Aug-2015)

Triplets on the River

1 - Montague (Mar-2020)
2 - Pierre (May-2020)

Book List in Order: 74 titles

  • Courting the Clearwaters

    Boys of Summer - 1

    Burned in a house fire a few days before losing his father, Shawn Carpenter spent most of his teen years working, caring for his family, and paying penance. When an acquaintance invites him to a college youth group, the changes in his life are immens...

  • Cross Country

    Boys of Summer - 3

    Since his mother's death four years ago, college freshman Eric Van der Haas has spent two weeks total with his brother Aaron. Suddenly, as a favor to his aunt, he and Aaron, as well as their younger, angry cousin Brenda and Eric's best friend Samanth...

  • Yucatan Cowboy

    Boys of Summer - 2

    The mysterious and dangerous Yucatan Peninsula is the backdrop for Yucatan Cowboy, Boys of Summer Series Book Two. Meet college student Matt Tucker, who tries to hide from his life by leading horse rides at a Christian camp in Mexico. What he doesn't...

  • All I Want for Christmas

    Boys of Summer - 5

    Unable to get back to Colorado for Christmas, Matt Tucker goes home with his roommate Tom to Georgia, where Christmas is warm and sunny and feels a little bit wrong. Soon, though, the weather is the least of his problems, as his girlfriend Dana's par...

  • Desert Rains

    Tales of Balia - 1

    Enter the world of Balia, a place not so different from our own. Explore lush landscapes and rich cultures as Balia's creator, TrueGod, moves through many times and places to find lost and broken people to call his own.In the ancient desert town of A...

  • Measuring Up

    Boys of Summer - 4

    School is back in session, and it might be a year to remember. Tom Van der Haas had an amazing summer in the Yucatan, but now it's time to get back to real life. With new roommates Matt Tucker and his cousin Eric Van der Haas, he faces new challenges...

  • Wayfarer Beach

    Boys of Summer - 6

    Returning home from a mission trip to Mexico, Seth Roberts is tired, grieving, and wondering what God is doing in his life. To make matters worse, he has promised to help friend Tom Van der Haas host a party of teenage girls at Tom's uncle's beach ho...

  • Salvaging Stephen

    Boys of Summer - 7

    Stephen Valentino finds it's hard to go from homelessness to a life with eerily friendly guys who keep saying they want to help him. Staying with new acquaintances Matt Tucker and Tom Van der Haas for the summer, Stephen is in a new world, with a job...

  • Spindrift

    Tales of Balia - 3

    Tired soldiers Gemini and Zandro expected to die in the depths of Sansion Keep on Cadewyn Island, but a mysterious trio brings them freedom. Haunted and lost, the pair and their unlikely travel companions head home, a three-day journey across the pla...



  • Moonset Child

    Tales of Balia - 2

    When two new stable boys show up at Hawthorn Castle, everyone knows they aren't who they say, but laundry mistress Valerie has no idea their secrets will change her entire life. The deity TrueGod, though, has planned this crossing of paths for many y...

  • Waylaid

    Boys of Summer - 8

    Cherokee Jones isn’t a big fan of college student and horseman extraordinaire Matt Tucker, but since they work on the same ranch this summer, he’s stuck with him. But maybe it’s not Matt Kee dislikes; maybe it’s that Matt reminds him of the r...

  • Sugar Rush

    Girls Aglow - 1

    Homeschooled senior Holly MacGuire is facing a few new things in her life. She’s got newly divorced parents, a new chronic illness, and she’s the new girl in town. If she has her way, she’ll climb under a blanket and not come out until it’s t...

  • Drifting Home

    Girls Aglow - 2

    When Brenda Van der Haas’ parents left her with her cousin to spend some time in Europe, she didn’t expect them to be gone two years. And now that they’re back, calling her away from her cousin and her friends for senior year, Brenda is angry.B...

  • Dusk Lane

    Tales of Balia - 5

    Meandering around a volcanic ridge, through jungle lowlands, and over salt flats, Dusk Lane is a route only the most desperate travelers find, and without strong guides nobody can survive the path through the beautiful and dangerous interior of Chime...

  • Gypsy Heart

    Tales of Balia - 4

    One fateful day changes everything for Christianna Habersham, daughter of a wealthy jewelry guilder. After an attack leaves her unconscious and injured at the side of the road, an exiled gypsy man finds and cares for her, then leaves her in her provi...

  • Knowing Jake

    Boys of Summer - 9

    Jake Branigan is the pastor’s kid, and everyone thinks they know him. What they don’t know is how tired he is of his boring, normal, predictable, respectable life. Even living in an apartment with friends Stephen and Matt doesn’t help with the ...

  • Low Visibility

    Girls Aglow - 3

    Although she's a recent high school graduate, Susan Van der Haas has no idea what to do with her life. At her mother’s suggestion, she decides to spend the summer as a nanny, hoping God will help her see things clearly and make some plans before fa...

  • Misflitch

    Tales of Balia - 6

    For generations two peoples have fought over the mountains of Thanador. The native Tarra'ans hate the recent arrivals, the Contolte, and eventually that hatred turns to war. Yaotl and Jensen, though, are a Tarra'an and a Contolte who live as brothers...

  • Farmer's Daughter

    Girls Aglow - 4

    For Sally Sanderson, college is a chance to become a new person and discard the lonely tomboy she was in high school. Rooming with new friend Holly MacGuire, Sally begins her hunt for new friends and a new boyfriend, and it’s almost scary what sheâ...



  • Pose

    Girls Aglow - 5

    In the newest Girls Aglow book, revisit Nita Welles, Brenda Van der Haas’s friend and Holly’s new roommate and fashion design partner. Nita is now in school and teaching yoga, but nobody knows she’s really hiding from her broken family and her ...

  • Second Son

    Boys of Summer - 10

    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Matt Tucker and Dana Schneider, as seen through the eyes of Tony Carpenter. Last appearing in Courting the Clearwaters, Shawn Carpenter’s little brother Tony is now in high school, and he’s tired of liv...

  • Luminosity

    Tales of Balia - 7

    For Vion Yorraan, marriage had gotten old, but as the son of a woman who married six times, he never expected much from the institution in the first place. As for Dianna, who lost her mama young and had a papa who never got over the loss, her attempt...

  • Snapshot

    Girls Aglow - 6

    Chloe Templeton’s sister is the maid of honor for Julianne Summers and Tom Van der Haas’ wedding, and she has the honor of being the photographer. For a week she gets to hang out on the beach with friends and, if she’s lucky, this wedding will ...

  • If the Sun

    Boys of Summer - 11

    When Marley Owen’s stepdad attacks him, his mother puts him on a bus and sends him halfway across the country to stay with his sister and her kids. As a new high school graduate, Marley is lost and alone in a new city, no idea how to deal with his ...

  • Swamp Wife

    Trilogy on the River - 2

    Like many kids on the river, Emilie and Luc are married for the benefits of their families. Emilie considers Luc an attractive boy, and she hopes to find the happiness her parents had. Luc, however, has no understanding of women or wives, and he just...

  • Moon Bird

    Tales of Balia - 8

    Shipwrecked on an island in the empty restricted zone, Laurelin is rescued by an unusual and deformed man named Yaron who speaks to the birds and seems to live here alone. Although she has traveled across Balia to speak of TrueGod, she has no idea ho...

  • Swamp Rats

    Trilogy on the River - 1

    Growing up, falling in love, avoiding alligators.Princess is only nine when her mother abandons her, leaving her in their swamp home with her absentee dad, who travels to make a living. That same day she meets Cree, the boy two houses down on their t...

  • Swamp Song

    Trilogy on the River - 3

    When Yeardleigh’s papa murders her mama, an unlikely pair steals this city girl to the swamp for safety. Twelve year-old Yeardleigh finds herself left with a family with two boys and a girl, and she has to learn all the ways of river life, nothing ...

  • Moving Days

    Girls Aglow - 7

    Tiffy Langstrom has messed everything up. She finished freshman year of college hopelessly in debt, and her family plans to punish her without mercy, so she runs to stay with her high school friend Holly MacGuire. Holly is glad to help out, but Tiffy...



  • Heart Slide

    Girls Aglow - 8

    Tori Princeton comes home from summer at her grandmother’s house to find her house gone, her parents bankrupt, and her plans for college dissolved. Living in a partially finished hotel, she and her family have no idea what will come next or who emb...

  • Fat Caterpillars

    Terry's Garden - 1

    Follow one young man's path to maturity and love in this first book of the Terry’s Garden series, stories of a romance that touches generations and a garden where God heals broken hearts. Christian romance for the young at heart. Bud is an old man ...

  • The Lion and the Ladybug

    Terry's Garden - 2

    When eight year-old Leo Jansen watches Meg Kenton move in across the street, he has no idea the bossy girl will become his best friend. She is pink and sunshine and boldness, and while Leo’s family falls apart, her world is his sanctuary. Then she ...

  • Most Glorious Land

    Tales of Balia - 9

    Taken from his home in his youth, Nikolai is now a guard protecting the royal mistresses in the Most Glorious Land of Long. When invaders from his homeland kidnap the girls -- and everyone else in the summer palace -- he begins a journey to get help ...

  • Beneath the Broom Tree

    St. Ninian's Sanctuary - 1

    St. Ninian’s Sanctuary is a spiritual retreat center on a mysterious island so far south it’s nearly in Antarctica. At this center guests find healing, hope, and renewal, or so says its website. Ione Stavros needs it to be true, because she needs...

  • Follow the Firefly

    Terry's Garden - 3

    Finn Jansen isn’t broken. Yes, he lost his mother. Yes, his dad and brother had their issues. Yet none of it was about Finn, and he hates that everyone sees him as broken.Piper Johnson, a girl he barely knows, suspects there’s more to Finn. Unfor...

  • As the Mist Scatters

    St. Ninian's Sanctuary - 2

    After suffering an injury that will lay him up for nearly a year, St. Ninian’s Sanctuary’s maintenance man Huck Deveraux is angry. For years working at the spiritual island retreat center has been his sole identity, and it keeps demons from his p...

  • Praying Home the Mantis

    Terry's Garden - 4

    After Sebastian Cross’s parents divorce, he has to spend summers with his dad, far from everything he knows. Fortunately, his dad lives next to the Kentons, three houses of family that includes grandparents, cousins, and one girl his age who welcom...

  • The Wryneck

    Tales of Balia - 10

    In the city of Balivor, orphans work in the dangerous new factories, facing danger and death daily. One young man, an orphan himself known only as the wryneck, sacrifices everything to rescue them. Then he disappears, and hope among the orphans disap...

  • Olden Days

    Girls Aglow - 9

    Nobody understands why Shanna Grayson works so hard to be invisible, but some days it gets old, and she wishes someone in the world understood her. Then her friends’ landlord hires a new maintenance man, and he might be lonelier than she is. He’s...



  • The Walkabout Scribe

    Casa Flanigan - 1

    After losing his mom to cancer, Kincade McClanahan plans a trip across the country where he can breathe the air, see the sights, and forget his pain. A friend gives him a few destinations to begin his journey, sending him to friends and family in the...

  • Beyond the Borderlands

    St. Ninian's Sanctuary - 3

    When thirty-year-old Sage Montgomery loses his wife and in-laws, he ends up with custody of his teen sister-in-law, who is angry and impossible to reach. Hoping they will heal and refresh, his parents send them both to St. Ninian’s Sanctuary, a spi...

  • The No-See-Um of Dragonfly Creek

    Terry's Garden - 5

    When Colt Granbury’s mother remarries, he gets a new stepdad and a new brother, but the changes aren’t what he’d hoped for. His new brother doesn’t seem to care about him, and while his stepdad loves him, Colt knows he’s not as important as...

  • The Aunt Whisperer

    Casa Flanigan - 2

    Carmen teaches dance at Luke’s studio at the Casa Flanigan farm, and she hasn’t told anyone yet that her plans to travel with a dance troupe were derailed after her aunt, who raised her, suffered a stroke. Instead, she tries to teach, care for he...

  • Eventide

    St. Ninian's Sanctuary - 4

    When Kai Alexander and her adopted teen son Dom arrive at St. Ninian’s Sanctuary, they both know this is their last stop. Dom’s rebellion in the States means they can’t go back, and yet Kai fears that her troubled son won’t do much better her...

  • The Seventeen-Year Cicada

    Terry's Garden - 6

    Elementary student Neville Kenton is an artistic prodigy. Unfortunately, as his big sister says, he bleeds other people’s blood onto his canvases, feeling every emotion he draws, especially when he draws people. Teachers don’t understand him, nor...

  • Montague

    Triplets on the River - 1

    He thought he was a monster… When Sheila was ten, her parents moved from the city to the isolated river delta, where they had to learn to live a new lifestyle in a peaceful, slow-moving, yet sometimes hostile swamp. Away from people, her ...

  • Pierre

    Triplets on the River - 2

    My name is Suzette, and I was born in a huge river delta, a swamp. After my mama delivered her eighth baby, when there was no room for me and the drought made it hard for Papa to feed all of us, I went to live with my Aunt Josie, an eccentric old hea...

  • Border Crossing

    Sometimes a friendship needs two books in two series on two continents to find its way… Taking characters from multiple series, this pair of books follows friendship and romance around the world, starting on Casa Flanigan, a farm in rural...

  • Remy

    When Natalie and Charles' father goes to prison, and their mother commits suicide as a result, the siblings find themselves penniless and homeless, two rich city kids looking for distant family in the river delta. Their first stop on the river leads ...



  • Chessa's Rescue

    The Sekou Saga: A Tale of Balia in Four Parts - 1

    Galleo is an ancient, mystical warrior of the god who doesn't age and can't seem to die, and he's tired. After spending lifetimes rescuing people of the god when they find themselves in danger, he simply wants to go home to Everworld and see the face...

  • Dane's Mountain

    The Sekou Saga: A Tale of Balia in Four Parts - 2

    Having betrayed his friends to save his family, Dane the guard is now called on to right his wrongs, and he finds himself leading his friends back to his home, a dangerous mountain filled with enemies. His friends no longer trust him, and he deserves...

  • Casimir's Silence

    When a storm spreads the group across the shores of the great sea, they begin the long journey back to one another. Each finds clues along the way that speak of the true origins and purpose of Galleo, their ancient friend, as well as one final missio...

  • Gem's Gypsies

    With their leader missing, the teens look to Gem to head the search to find him. Embarrassed by his upbringing and trying to avoid his destiny, Gem resists, but eventually he leads his closest friends across the continent to find a beloved warrior of...

  • Rolling with the Dung Beetle

    After losing my big brother in a car crash, my family moved to a small town to start over. As if grieving wasn't enough, now I had to find new friends, and in true small town fashion, everyone knew about us and nobody wanted to get close. Loneliest s...

  • Below the Ice

    She saw the world in black and white, so God sent her the king of the gray...Trevor is the son of a Sanctuary staff family who shows up unannounced and discovers his parents have never told anyone on the island of his existence. Having fought the jus...

  • Cub and Flipper

    Two of the popular Terry's Garden young adult/coming of age novels in one stand-alone volume. In The Lion and the Ladybug, eight year-old Meg befriends Leo, the boy across the street. He's hiding dark secrets, and when Meg's family has to move f...

  • The Dusty Knight

    Can a tarnished princess thaw a knight's frozen heart?Zeke was the poster boy for women's rights. After failing his sister, he vows to protect and honor women until a man-hating boss fires him and makes sure he'll never work his field again. After th...

  • The Weeping Heir

    As he turns nineteen, Nick Kyngeston seems to have the world. He's the heir to one of the most important kingdoms on Caperton Island. He's engaged to the girl he's loved all his life. He has wealth and looks and prestige. Unfortunately, all of it is ...

  • Luck of the Cricket

    Jazz: I didn't expect to get home one September day of my freshman year and discover my mom had bailed. Like, an empty closet and a note. Dad was out of town—like always—and taking care of my little sisters was now my job. Unfortunately, ...

  • Between the Tides

    The island will never be the same… Felicia is on the island to watch her cousin Lynn marry one of the island pilots. Barry is on the island to give his mother-in-law a chance to refresh and recharge, knowing caring for his wheelchair-boun...

  • Glorious Kingdoms

    Two Tales of Balia in one volume. Fantasy for teens or adults with a Christian worldview. Most Glorious Land: Taken from his home in his youth, Nikolai is now a guard protecting the royal mistresses in the Most Glorious Land of Long. When invade...

  • The Hundred-Days Miracle

    Sometimes waking up is enough...After addiction nearly kills him, Jaime Holloway and his dog Bakersfield find themselves at Casa Flanigan, where he hopes to continue to heal and find the strength to put together a new life. He's forgotten how much tr...

  • Triplets on the River Series

    Drift down the river and enjoy a trio of novels from a simpler place and time, now combined into one volume. Follow three brothers—triplets—as they grow up in an isolated community on the river, facing the dangers of the swamp and learnin...

  • Cody Bear

    Rescuing Tacy comes at a price… Her history is a secret. She doesn't know phones, videogames, even snack cakes. She's underweight, afraid of everything, and now his next-door neighbor's foster daughter. As a computer geek who never talks ...

  • Recalibration

    She would do anything to get home… Gypsy siblings Iara, seventeen, and Xabi, four, are kidnapped by slavers and taken to a land far from their own, where they escape into a town that hates foreigners. The only help they find is Nen, a you...

  • Past the Shadowed Shore

    They had no idea how many lives they would touch… Almost a decade after losing his wife, Frank Van der Haas feels like life is over. His boys are grown; his job doesn't interest him; he's lonelier than he'll admit; and he can't quite find...

  • Rescued Souls

    Two tales of Balia featuring unusual male leads who need a little help fitting into their worlds. Gypsy Heart: After an attack leaves Christianna Habersham, daughter of a wealthy jewelry guilder, unconscious and injured at the side of the road, ...

  • Those Dreamy Welles Boys

    Brock had always been the troubled brother. Maybe that was about to change… After breaking an arm at work, Brock Welles plans to heal at Casa Flanigan farm, there because his brother Carl and sister Nita are both friends of the farm's own...

  • Finding McHenry

    The stories that saved him might swallow him… On a quiet summer morning in a tiny rural town, eight-year-old Riven Smith disappeared from his yard. Nobody heard a thing. His ten-year-old next-door neighbor Lily had always considered Riven...

  • Paint a New Sunrise

    He would do anything to rescue her heart… Needing to escape a tragedy, newlyweds Cherokee Kee and Cassie Jones accept a job at St. Ninian's Sanctuary as the horse team, where they'll establish a riding program for guests on the islan...

  • Clan Sirocco

    One tiny feral child changes everything for the life of the Sirocco Clan. When Pasco arrived in the Vinndal Sirocco gypsy camp, he was six years old, a filthy, naked, feral child. Jenifry, the childless elder who found him, had always longe...

  • The Barefoot Bard

    He was the most blessed—or the most cursed—of men Jericho showed up at Casa Flanigan barefoot on a bicycle, a guitar on his back and all his belongings in a basket. Calling himself a modern-day bard, the young drifter agrees to stick...

  • The Backstage Answer Man

    A broken professional dancer. A backward children's dance teacher. A production of The Nutcracker that will surprise them all. Casey Leeds has a bright future in dance until an accident damages his shoulder and kills the people he loves the most...

  • Prompting Noah

    Artist. Vandal. My best friend. Noah is a talented delinquent, a vandal thumbing his nose at the world that hurt and disappointed him. Madelyn, his neighbor, is a good girl, invisible and lonely, who's determined to save Noah from himself. What ...

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Jill Penrod has published 74 books.

Jill Penrod does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Prompting Noah, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Jill Penrod, Courting the Clearwaters, was published in August 2013.

Yes. Jill Penrod has 9 series.
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