A struggling soldier’s faith is challenged when he’s unable to protect the woman he loves. Haunted by the horrors of the new world order, he fights for freedom and life.
When the Last Stone Falls is a Runner Up in the 2020 Word Guild’s In the Beginning Unpublished Writing Award, a semi-finalist in ACFW’s 2020 Genesis contest, is third place in the 2024 BRMCWC Foundations award, and is shortlisted in the 2024 Word Alive Braun Book Awards.
Photos used for inspiration
My father in his Dutch soldier’s uniform.
Above: Dutch soldiers mobilize in 1939 against threats of war.
Above is the Ijssel River, where my story begins.
My parents in Doesburg during the war before they were married.
The below image was used for part of my setting and is where my mother worked for a time while dating my father during the war.
A photo of the rowboat business in Doesburg along the Ijssel River used as my main character’s homestead and where the story begins.