Fragile faith an author’s long journey; writer to visit Hope Community She wrote her first book when she was 10 years old, a romance story that she distributed to all her young friends. Ever since then, Maureen (Schmidgall) Lang has been writing romances, but she’s abandoned the steamy bodice ripper stories of her youth to explore inspirational romance interlaced with real-life challenges and messages about faith to move her stories along. |