Dawn of the Knight: Lance Rock's Spiritual Journey Book 1 (Lance Rock's Spiritual Journeys., #1)

One honorable young man can make all the difference.
In this Christian themed, thrilling and suspenseful action/romance novel, a fatherless Canadian high school boy, Lance Rock, has been raised and trained by the United States government's former top operative. For his senior year and upon the advice of his best friend, Lance decides to travel to California in the hope of finding a girlfriend as well as freedom from his regimented life. Once there, he inadvertently ends up in the home of a mother and her two teenage daughters. He is forced to use his skills to defend them and himself from the woman's ex-husband—a crime lord who has been terrorizing the family for over a decade!

I'm a huge fan of cool, operative/secret agent type characters having grown up watching James Bond, Derek Flint, The Wild, Wild West, The Avengers, The Man from Uncle, and more recently, Jason Bourne and Alex Rider. When I was younger, I had read a 1960's young adult teen spy series titled, "Chris Cool/Teen Agent," by Jack Lancer, and I loved it. That series only lasted six books and I decided that if I would ever write a book/series it would involve an "operative" type teenage character. Since I'm originally from Canada, I made the protagonist Canadian as well. Being a romantic at heart, I also knew I wanted the book to contain a romantic element as a major part of the story-line. And finally, since I myself am a Christian, I also wanted to put Lance on a spiritual journey where he eventually comes to know God and have his sins forgiven in book 4.