Dina L. Sleiman

Dina L. Sleiman writes Christian historical fiction and has taught writing, literature, humanities, and fine arts. Courageous, published by Bethany House in 2016, completes her three-book Valiant Hearts series after Dauntless and Chivalrous. The novel follows Rosalind of Ipsworth, who joins an expedition seeking to free captives near Tripoli, and Sir Randel Penigree, a church-trained man who hopes to serve as a knight. Their partnership develops while they train and protect younger members of the group and reconsider duty, faith, and the futures they imagined for themselves. Sleiman holds a master's degree in professional writing from Regent University and a communications degree from Oral Roberts University. Those teaching and writing backgrounds suit a series designed to combine medieval adventure, romance, and spiritual questions for teen readers. Courageous closes the sequence by shifting its setting toward the eastern Mediterranean while retaining the series focus on young women acting with conviction inside restrictive historical worlds.