Celeste Charlene

Celeste Charlene writes women’s inspirational novels based on strong female heroines facing extreme adversities. These protagonists depend on the Lord for strength and courage while dealing with unscrupulous leaders, tribal warfare, and dangerous local customs. Join her on an African safari into the lives and stories of intriguing brave women and African people.

Her newest book FREAK TO FANATIC is completely different from the others. It’s partly an autobiography with devotions and memoirs from over 30 years as a medical missionary in West Africa. It has many scriptures, testimonies, and spiritual lessons.

After she retired, she took incidents from her African journals and wove them into her books. She teaches a weekly women’s Bible study and writes devotions for her blog.

SHAKEN BLESSINGS will shake you up and out of your comfort zone. Have you ever had a blessing shaken out of your life? What if that blessing were a precious baby gone from your embrace?

In NOT FORSAKEN the heroine questions whether God has forsaken her and her assistant when her driver is falsely arrested and thrown in jail for murder.

NO TEMPTATION is a testimony of the ultimate temptation a single missionary woman faces. Christians will be tempted but does God give all believers the strength to resist temptation?

A LITTLE MERCY is the first book in the Living Sacrifices series. Liz rescues a baby whom she calls Mercy. When Andrew’s plane crashes in the bush and authorities believe he is dead, is God’s mercy enough?

Liz loses her precious husband in A TRAGIC GOOD and is left alone and pregnant in Africa. How can the Lord bring good out of tragedy?

A WAVERING HOPE shows how God gives us hope after disaster.

SCARRED BEAUTY demonstrates the Lord’s physical and emotional healing for all wounds.

God turns ashes into beauty in EXQUISITE ASHES.

BROKEN SPIRIT is the last book in the series of six. It is based on true incidents about African girls sold into human trafficking.

MARCH AND SALUTE is a true story of an innocent girl who goes against her parents’ wishes and joins the Navy in 1964. Do worldly influences in the military service change her, or does she change those around her?

RUN JANE RUN tells the story of Megan Jane, an abused pastor’s wife, who runs away, only to have her husband pursue her from state to state. Can a Christian wife escape torture and death from a nationally recognized pastor?

THE QUIET SHOUT is the story of a newlywed missionary couple. The husband’s behavior becomes hostile after he arrives in Africa, and the wife begins doubting everything her husband ever said and promised her.

She has also written two cozy murder mysteries, WASHED AND DIED and CLEANED AND PRESSED