When Gloria Bickford moves back to her hometown, she knows she needs to make peace with a lot of people. She also realizes that her big city problems followed her home. As she discovers the truth about a land development, she finds herself entwined with more than she bargained for.

For 28 years, Gloria Bickford has lived under the thumb of her overbearing mother. Only twice during that time has Gloria ever had the courage to defy her—when she accepted Jesus as Savior and when she moved into her own apartment. Gloria is about to do it a third time by refusing to marry the man her mother has picked for her and by moving out of town. But after she moves, things quickly go from bad to worse. First, Gloria's neighbor commits suicide. Then Gloria discovers her boss is not quite the man she thought he was. Things continue to heat up when Perth, a semi-runaway, semi-juvenile delinquent attaches herself to Gloria and then again when the radical environmentalists come to town. All these elements combine to create a moral crisis for Gloria, and place her in a position where she stands to lose everything.

Becky Taylor has just been accepted to college. She will be the first Taylor ever to go beyond high school. When she discovers she is pregnant, Becky doesn't know what she fears most: having an abortion or giving up her lifelong dream of obtaining a higher education. At the urging of her father, her boyfriend, and her guidance counselor, she decides to end her pregnancy. At the abortion clinic, Becky is lying on a cold recovery table when she hears a man's voice, then gunshots. When the gunman is finished, Becky is the only one left alive. This act brings together two strangers who seek answers to one of life's most wrenching questions: Are God's love and mercy big enough to cover every sin? The answer will change both women-forever. Tears in a Bottle reveals the devastating effects of abortion and affirms that God's love is strong enough to heal even that deep pain. Sylvia Bambola, the author of Refiner's Fire, offers a riveting, heart-tugging story that encourages readers to think through their own convictions about abortion and the restoring power of God's love for every woman.

Refiner's Fire is a powerful and suspenseful novel about two brothers. Separated in post war Europe at the age of five, the fraternal twins are brought together, thirty-five years later, by unexpected and dangerous circumstances that jeopardize their marriages, careers and very lives. One brother, Yuri Deyneko, a Colonel in the Romanian regular army, suspects that the new American Ambassador to his country is his lost twin. Ambassador Alexander Wainwright, on the other hand, suspects nothing. The secret life of one brother and the ambition of the other will put them both on a collision course. Set amid Nicolae Ceausescu's Communist Romania of the 80's, where political and religious persecution was severe, the plight of the Underground Christian Church unfolds. It is a time of danger and trial; a time when a man's mettle is refined. Refiner's Fire looks at the best and worst that's in us, and shows that love can triumph in the face of the most terrible evil.

Written under the pen name of Margaret Miller, Sylvia won a 1998 Small Press Editor's Choice Award for this exciting thriller. A novel of love and intrigue, A Vessel of Honor is set in America amid the backdrop of global terrorism. A Holy War or Jihad has been declared, changing life for everyone. Two women engineers suddenly find themselves drawn into this international drama as they struggle to complete the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft. Their muddled private lives add to the tension. Tisha O’Brien has an abiding faith in God, and “those roots of middy blouses and pleated skirts, prayer books and incense-filled churches went deep.” This faith is tested when she falls in love with a married man. Audra Shields sees herself as a modern Lady Chatterly, “liberated but not forsaking breeding, intellect, or femininity.”She begins to question her lifestyle when she becomes involved with a dangerous stranger. Both women struggle to sort out their personal problems while racing the clock to finish a project fraught with sabotage and murder. The exciting conclusion will keep the reader turning the page.