Double the Lies

Patricia Raybon is a Colorado author and essayist who writes daring and exciting novels at the intersection of faith and race. Her devotional writing appears in Our Daily Bread, where she's a regular contributor. She has won both the Christy Award and the Christianity Today Book of the Year award for her fiction. Her new novel, The Sedalia Code, was inspired by her parents' wartime romance and the plot of a Nazi attack on US soil. Patricia's father was a young lieutenant stationed at Camp Butner in North Carolina when he met Patricia's mother, who was born and raised near the renowned Palmer Memorial Institute, a prep school for daughters of wealthy Black Durham residents.