Author: maryanndiorio

First Place Winner in Historical Fiction in the 2020 Christian Indie Book Awards ContestA white woman. A black man. And their forbidden love. Can endurance and faith sustain the love between a white woman and a black man, threatened by rejection, guilt, and racial injustice? Can love alone reconcile their starkly different worlds, lighting the way to a bright future together?When graduate … together?When graduate student, Tori Pendola, a white American woman, and Jebuni Kalitsi, a Ghanaian exchange student and heir to his tribe’s chieftaincy, fall deeply in love, they must face not only their own inner demons of rejection and…

This riveting, page-turning series deals with the deepest issues of the human heart. Packed with intense emotion, it is inspiring readers throughout the world with its powerful message that forgiveness can free even the most wounded among us. Book 1: THE MADONNA OF PISANOA young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other….A young, 19th-century Sicilian woman, Maria … other….A young, 19th-century Sicilian woman, Maria Landro, has a bright future ahead of her. Engaged to be married to her childhood sweetheart, Carlo Mancini, Maria is suddenly blindsided by her pastor and former teacher, Don Franco…