Today, I have the privledge of introducing you to a character from one of the books I’m hoping to read during my writing sabbatical, Girl Lost by Kate Angelo. If you like romantic suspense, you’re in for a treat. Kate Angelo and I “met” through a Discord group where we sprint (write as many words as we can in a timed period). It’s been wonderful to get to know her and see how her writing brain works. And boy, can that girl write! Kate is generously giving an audiobook or ebook to one lucky commenter (international included!). You can find all the details at the end of this post. 

Before we dive into our interview, let me introduce you to the story that Luna Rosati takes part in.

Now it’s time to jump into our interview with Luna Rosati!

CC: Luna, would you please introduce yourself to my readers? How would you describe yourself?

Luna: I’m Luna Rosati, though for most of my adult life, I lived behind other names. Marine Intelligence. CIA Counterintelligence. Those worlds demanded reinvention. New faces, new identities, new versions of myself designed to survive whatever the mission required. After enough years of deception, the truth felt foreign. Easier to bury. Easier to avoid.

Now I’m back in Millie Beach, trying to remember what it feels like to live as one person instead of a collection of aliases.

If you’re asking how I’d describe myself… well, I’ve got dark hair, darker eyes, and hands marked by calluses that never quite fade. I grew up learning how to fight for myself, and later, how to fight for others. I can drop a man twice my size with a wrist lock and disappear into a crowded street without breaking stride. But the real battles—those are internal ones. The kind God keeps guiding me through, piece by piece. After everything I’ve survived, He’s teaching me that strength isn’t just grit and instinct. Sometimes it’s surrender. Sometimes it’s trusting Him with a past I’ve avoided for far too long.

My role in the story began with one purpose: find the daughter I put up for adoption eighteen years ago.

I didn’t come home for nostalgia. I came for answers. Specifically one from the only man who had it. Stryker King, my mentor, the one person I trusted to tell me the truth. But moments before we were supposed to meet, he was violently kidnapped. His disappearance ripped the ground out from under me.

That’s when everything got… complicated.

Because to find Stryker, I had to work with the last person I wanted to see: Corbin King. FDLE agent. Stubborn. Sharp. And the father of the daughter I’m searching for.

The same man who broke my heart years ago when he said he wasn’t ready to be a father.

I shoved all of that aside—my resentment, my fear, the truth he still doesn’t know—because finding Stryker mattered more than reopening old wounds. Corbin thinks I’m helping him because I’m a former intelligence officer with useful skills, and that’s true. What he doesn’t know is that this investigation is tied to the biggest unanswered piece of my life.

So here we are, working together, chasing down leads, infiltrating dangerous places, uncovering things neither of us saw coming. And every step we take, God keeps nudging me to face the truth I’ve spent eighteen years running from.

CC: Wow, Luna! When you answer a question, you’re very thorough. But I suspect that comes with the territory of your job. You need to know everything inside and out. You’ve got a lot of things to wade through, and I’m here to see it.

What is it that you want? What’s standing in your way?

Luna: What I want is simple—and impossibly complicated.

I want to find the daughter I gave up eighteen years ago. I’ve lived with that ache my entire adult life, and I’m finally ready to face it.

What’s standing in my way?

A kidnapping, a criminal network that keeps growing darker by the day, and the one man I least want to confront—Corbin King. He has the skills to find the answers I need and no idea how personal this is for me. And until I find Stryker, I can’t tell him the truth.

CC: Everything is so much more complicated than we imagine it will be. At least that is my experience, and it seems to be yours as well.

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Did it happen?

Luna: When I was a child, I wanted to be a wife and a mother. That simple. I wanted the kind of home I never grew up in—stable, safe, filled with people who stayed.

Did it happen?

No. Life unraveled fast. Survival became the priority, then training, then missions. Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing I was meant for a family.

And now… I don’t know if that dream is still possible. Not with everything standing between Corbin and me. Not with the truth I’m still carrying.

CC: The secret truths we carry can be so hard to bear. 

How would you describe your relationship with God?

Luna: My relationship with God has been… strained. Not because He left, but because I did. For years, I relied on instincts, training, and aliases—anything but Him. Trust felt dangerous.

But lately, I’ve started to see Him working in ways I can’t chalk up to coincidence. Bringing me home. Forcing me to face the truth. Putting people back in my life I never expected to see again.

It scares me, honestly. But it also feels like a lifeline I didn’t know I still needed.

CC: I love God with all my heart, but sometimes when He is at work, it is some of the scariest stuff I’ve every dealt with. Yeah, it makes me lean ever more into Him and cling to that trust I say I have, but scary is an apt description of the experience.

How do you feel about the journey you are going on?

Luna: How do I feel? Torn. This journey is forcing me to confront things I’ve run from for eighteen years. I’m scared of the truth—about the kidnapping, about the criminals we’re facing, about the daughter I’m desperate to find.

I’m enjoying the momentum, though. The work. The clarity that comes in the middle of danger. And I hate admitting this, but… I’m enjoying seeing a different side of Corbin. One I didn’t expect.

I’m worried the past will repeat itself. That I’ll lose the people I’m trying to protect. And that when I finally get answers, they won’t be the ones I hoped for.

CC: Torn seems like the perfect description and my heart goes out to you.

If there is one thing you could tell the reader, what would it be? 

Luna: One thing I want readers to know? This isn’t just about danger, lies, or chasing criminals. It’s about finding what you’ve lost—whether it’s a person, a truth, or even a piece of yourself—and having the courage to face it, even when the path is terrifying.

CC: I once heard that courage isn’t about being unafraid but about doing what needs done even when afraid. It sounds like you display a lot of courage in this story. 

Unfortunately, it’s time to wrap up, so here’s our last question, and it’s always a fun one. What is the weirdest thing on your bucket list?

Luna: I want to take a month and learn something totally useless—like sculpting or ballroom dancing—just to prove I can do it without it saving a life or cracking a case. A skill that doesn’t serve a purpose… for once.

CC: A useless skill sounds absolutely delightful. 

That’s it for now. If you liked getting to know Luna, I highly recommend you go check out Kate Angelo’s Girl Lost.

Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Angelo once sold a lion to a circus in Shreveport after her mom realized lions weren’t great house pets. Growing up, she was a bookworm, dog groomer, exotic pet wrangler, horse trainer, cowgirl, and teenage pool shark. After aging out of foster care, she cultivated her inner computer nerd and worked as a web programmer, but during a visit to Australia, she encountered Jesus and left the corporate world to pursue a life in ministry.

She is an author, minister, and public speaker from Southwest Missouri who works alongside her husband championing stronger marriages and families. She serves as Vice President and cofounder of their nonprofit Vanguard Marriage and Family Advocates. As Mom to 5 adult children, she’s fluent in both sarcasm and eye rolls. Kate is a coffee addict, tech enthusiast, productivity guru, expert knitter, summer fanatic, prayer warrior, dog lover, avid reader, and a bigtime klutz—just ask her doctor.

Having aged out of foster care and into her own found family, Kate brings a unique perspective to her writing, breathing life into flawed characters who find hope and healing amidst danger.

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