What was your favorite picture book as a kid?

It was a Golden Book, The Little Engine that Could.

What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading?

Nancy Drew books.

What was your most favorite book in high school?

Captain from Castille by Samuel Shellabarger

What was your least favorite book in high school?

I don’t remember. Probably a textbook.

What was the last novel you read?

Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan

What was the last nonfiction book you read?

Tomorrow to be Brave by Susan Travers and Wendy Holden

Which book lived up to the hype (from the past 1-2 years)?

Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin

Which book do you love that needs more hype?

The Widows of Champagne by Renee Ryan

Next novel on your TBR (up to three).

The Choices She Made by Felicia Ferguson
Potiphar’s Wife by Mesu Andrews
What I Would Tell You by Liz Tolsma

Next nonfiction on your TBR (up to three).

Women of the Bible by Ann Spangler
Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
Created Equal by Ben Carson

Tell us about your newest release/upcoming release.

The Escape Game is set in the early years of World War II. Part of the story takes place in England and the other part takes place in a POW camp in Germany. Beryl Clarke, my main female character, is in England caring for her mother after her father was killed by a German bomb that landed on their city. She also holds down a day job while volunteering as an Air Raid Warden at night. Her brother is a pilot with the RAF (Royal Air Force). He becomes a prisoner in Germany along with a college friend. Meanwhile, Beryl discovers that her company has begun making a special board game with hidden items to help prisoners escape. But since the game was not made before her brother got captured, he doesn’t know about it. Beryl tries to tell him discreetly in her letters, while at the same time, his letters are written by their mutual college friend because her brother’s arm is broken. The correspondence stirs hidden feelings between the two, left behind when they all left college due to the war. The story follows the lives of the POWs and that of Beryl as they strive for the mutual goal of seeing each other again.

Is there anything else you’d like to share?

I am so thankful to be part of the Heroines of WWII series from Barbour. It is truly an honor to be among the other wonderful authors in the series. God dropped this story idea in my lap, and I am thrilled with the way he put the pieces together for me. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did writing it!

Award-winning author Marilyn Turk writes historical and contemporary fiction seasoned with suspense and romance. She also writes devotions. Marilyn has been published by Barbour, Iron Stream Media, Winged Publications and Guideposts. A lighthouse enthusiast, Marilyn and her husband have visited over 100 lighthouses and served as volunteer lighthouse caretakers at Little River Light off the coast of Maine. Expect to find a lighthouse in each of her books.

She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Faith, Hope and Love Christian Writers, Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Word Weavers International, and the United States Lighthouse Society.

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