Nattaporn has a new teaching credential in hand, but also an abrupt break-up letter to absorb. She’s embarrassed but grateful by her brother Khemkaeng’s graduation gift: the offer of a gig at Bangkok Christian School. Even though she’s still just a nominal Buddhist, not a Christian like the rest of the teaching staff. Okay. But after a fainting spell on her first day puts her in the hospital, it looks like God’s providence when amateur chaplain Gino Carington pays her a visit. Natty’s third-grade girls are giddy over their teacher having an awesomely cute new fan– that’s the cheerful Thai word for a boyfriend.

But she knows her cultural Buddhist upbringing is on a romantic collision course; week by week she ponders her boyfriend’s sermons and accompanies him to pizza Bible studies. Book #7 is a harrowing romantic thriller that also includes a scary subplot navigating Thailand’s murky legal system. Could Natty end up serving a jail term as an accomplice to bank fraud? This is a unique experiment in the Rachel Marie series, as we share this adventure as a first-person narrative by BCS’s newest heroine.

All ten stories are now available for you to check out in audiobook format as well as bargain e-books for your Kindle or smart phone reading device. Do check out the download for "Love in a Distant Land," the debut novel in this series! It’s presented by our good friend Tonya Foster Yancey. And you are definitely invited to move right into the eighth story in this set; entitled "Lost in the True Church." A dangerous cult group threatens to infect the fragile Christian faith in Thailand with its violent theology and divisive end-time rhetoric.

We also encourage you to sample the three-book sci-fi trilogy, “The Time Portal,” with time-travel adventures to past events like D-Day, the capsizing of Titanic, and a Friday night bit of entertainment at a Washington D.C. venue known as Ford’s Theater. All the details are available at www.davidbsmithbooks.com.