News & Features: Marybeth Whalen

'The crux of the issue of adultery is that it's usually just a symptom of a bigger problem. There's always an underlying story that was going on long before the actual adultery took place.'

In Marybeth Whalen's The Guest Book (Zondervan), 5-year-old Macy Dillon exchanges drawings in a guest book of a Carolina beach house with an unidentified little boy ...

"I didn't start out to write a Christian novel when I wrote [my first novel], but God showed up as I wrote and I couldn't avoid the fact that my faith will always be at work with anything I write.

Appearances can be deceiving'as one woman learns when she moves into the neighborhood of her dreams.