For Chance the guilt he had been carrying around for the last fifteen years had been crippling. For Catherine the Washington High Society circles were sickening. But through each of their situations God was making them "As silver is refined... About me. My name is Joy Coon I was born in Johnson City, Kansas. I am the seventh kid in a family of fifteen. My dad is a pastor and has been involved in the ministry for over thirty years. He currently pastors Solid Rock Baptist Church in St Francis, Kansas. I accepted Christ as my Savior when I was eight years old. Not long after I became a bookworm and so my love for writing and reading a good story grew. I attended college at Cornerstone Bible Institute in Hot Springs, South Dakota.