Author
Kristen writes romantic-comedy novels that wrestle with evangelical culture. Her sharp, witty books promise a swoony journey to a happy ending.
Ring by Spring, won the nationwide Debut Author Prize search contest held by Acorn Publishing, announced at the 2026 San Diego Writers Festival with Jodi Picoult.
The expected publication is spring 2027.
Acorn Publishing - Debut Author Prize Winner
Ring by Spring
At Aletheia University, an elite Christian college on the shores of San Diego, most girls arrive wearing purity rings and leave wearing diamonds.
Abigail Lawrence isn’t interested in the Puritanical dating games.
The boys call her a unicorn: gorgeous, wild, and impossible to catch. She's not chasing a husband; she just wants the stage.
When her theatrical ambitions cost her family’s financial support, Abigail talks her way into the only free bed she can find: a room in the worship band's off-campus beach house. Three guys. One Bible. Zero chill from Wyatt Abernathy, the straight-laced bass player who voted against letting her stay.
Abigail’s antics (and her feminist take on the school production of The Taming of the Shrew) turn their lives into a comedy of errors, and Wyatt discovers the only thing harder than living with Abigail is pretending he doesn't want to.
Ring by Spring is a romantic comedy about faith that doesn't flinch, ambition that doesn't apologize, and a slow burn that rewrites campus rules.
For fans of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood who believe a good Christian girl can love Jesus, crave the spotlight, and make the first move.
Available spring 2027.
Currently Querying
The Doctrine of Dating
Aletheia University educates America's most influential pastors. It's also where future church leaders find their wives.
Jordan Santos is new to faith, new to Aletheia, and has absolutely no idea how to reconcile her dreams of becoming a progressive theologian with her crush on Micah, the school's golden-armed basketball star. But when campus worship king Danny Lamont needs a tutor — and Danny knows all the unwritten rules of purity culture— Jordan agrees to a deal that could finally get her noticed.
The arrangement is simple: Jordan helps Danny pass. Danny helps Jordan look like the perfect Christian wife.
A fake-dating romantic comedy about Christian culture, purity, desire, and the radical act of asking who gets to lead—and who gets to decide.
Righteous Rivals
Currently Drafting
A prank. A grudge. A rec softball rivalry that somehow becomes a theological crisis.
When the (aggressively) single men's Bible study humiliates Aletheia University’s campus security team, somebody's going to pay for it—one prank at a time.
Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Aragon is a brassy, night-shift security guard who wishes she were a student. Her minimum-wage job includes facing down the Paul-devoted, commitment-phobic boys with something to prove. Aspen Jackson is a soft-spoken film student, dragged into the fray by his Bible study to determine (via viral reels) who the best softball players pranksters are.
The trash talk gets theological. The competition gets personal. And somewhere between the dugout and the doctrine, two people who should be opponents start asking questions neither of them came here to answer—about belonging, about ambition, and about the costs of envy.
Enemies-to-lovers meets evangelical culture in this screwball romantic comedy about faith, class, and the unspoken rules of Christian dating.