Sarah was a late bloomer as she submitted her manuscript for “Distant Melody” in 2003 when she was thirty-four. Her interest in protozoology is what led her to take a degree in science and become a pharmacist. Similar to other avid readers, she dabbled in writing but knew her stories were not any good and hence she spent much of her younger years wanting to be a lot of things including a firefighter, ballerina, and protozoologist. As such, she grew up with stories of World War II and hence it was no surprise that she would be fascinated by anything to do with the war. Frederick Stewart her grandfather served in the US Navy as a pharmacist’s mate and Roderick Stewart, her great uncle was a pilot for the NAVY and flew the B-17 in England and Australia and was present at Pearl Harbor. Sarah’s novels are set in World War II which is as a result of her unique parentage. She currently lives with Dave her husband and three children in California.

After attaining much success, she hung up her coat to become a full-time author. Sarah published her first novel “A Distant Melody” of the “Wings of Glory” series in 2010. She soon joined a writer critique group, the American Christian Fiction Writers and even start attending writers’ conferences. While she never got to publish the work, it got her interested in writing. From the dream, she proceeded to write a 750-page contemporary Christian romance.

She woke up from the intriguing dream and knew she had to put it down on paper before she forgot it. After graduating from college, she went on to practice for several years before she had a dream in 2000. in pharmacy from the University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy. She would then discover science and when she went to college, she took a degree in chemistry and later on got her Ph.D. However, she once teamed up with her sister and using crayons they co-wrote Funny Dancing Vegetables and Fruits stories. While she was brought up in a home that was wall to wall with books, she never did envision herself as a writer. Sarah Sundin is an award-winning historical fiction author from California.

When Tides Turn by Sarah Sundin