Question: A Voice in the Wind (1993) is a novel by Francine Rivers, an American author of fiction with Christian themes, including inspirational romance novels, and the first book in which series of books?

Context articles: The Atonement Child
Taiwo Odubiyi
Mark of the Lion
A Voice in the Wind
Francine Rivers
The Last Sin Eater
Tagalog pocketbooks
An Echo in the Darkness
Carla Laureano
Linda Goodnight

The Atonement Child is a 1997 novel by the American author Francine Rivers.
 It deals with the themes of unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
Taiwo Odubiyi (born 29 May 1965) is an author; an international speaker, a marriage and relationship counsellor, and the Senior Associate Pastor, alongside her husband Reverend Sola Odubiyi, of The Still Waters Church International with Headquarters in Ikorodu, Nigeria.
 With three daughters and a ministry, Taiwo has written over 20 award-winning inspirational romance novels; children's books; and self-help books on rape and relationships, with new novels/books being published every year.
 She is the president of TenderHearts Family Support Initiative and the founder of the Pastor Taiwo Odubiyi Ministries.
 She is also a televangelist; a columnist in "The Nigerian Canadian News", "The National Mirror", and "The US immigration Newspaper"; and the host of the Nigerian radio and television programme "It's All About You".
The Mark of the Lion series is authored by Francine Rivers and consists of three novels: A Voice in the Wind (1993), An Echo in the Darkness (1994), and As Sure as the Dawn.
A Voice in the Wind (1993) is a novel by Francine Rivers, and the first book in the Mark of the Lion Series.
Francine Sandra Rivers (born 1947) is an American author of fiction with Christian themes, including inspirational romance novels.
 Prior to becoming a born-again Christian in 1986, Rivers wrote historical romance novels.
 She is best known for her inspirational novel "Redeeming Love", while another novel, "The Last Sin Eater" has become a feature film.
The Last Sin Eater is a 1998 Christian book by the American author Francine Rivers.
 It deals with the themes of sin, guilt and forgiveness, and tells about the atonement of Jesus Christ.
According to Tatin Yang in the article "Romansang Pinoy: A day with Tagalog romance novels", Tagalog romance paperbacks were thin Philippine versions of romance novel books that could be found at the bottom shelves of the romance section of bookstores, wrapped and bound with book covers that are decorated with Philippine comics-styled illustrations, such as "a barrio landscape with a badly dressed guy and girl locked in an embrace".
 As a form of "escapist fiction" (escapism) and "commercial literature", Tagalog romance novels generally follow a "strict romance formula", meaning the narratives have happy endings (a factor influencing the salability of the novel), the protagonists are wealthy, good-looking, smart, and characters that cannot die.
 Normally, the hero or heroine of the story falls in love and "goes crazy" over the admired person.
 However, later authors of Tagalog romance novels deviated from portraying so-called "damsel-in-distress and knight-in-shining-armor characters".
 Contemporary writers also turned away from writing "rags-to-riches plots".
 The stereotypical norm had been replaced by the incorporation of storylines with "interesting scenes, characters [who are ready to face challenges or to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of other people], dialogues, and new angles to old plots".
 Authors such as Maria Teresa Cruz San Diego, who used the pen names Maia Jose and Tisha Nicole, ventured into the fantasy romance genre, and into topics that are related to politics, ecology, gender issues, prostitution, mail-order bride syndicates, white slavery, non-governmental organizations, and breastfeeding programs.
 Apart from writing about ideal lovers (men and women) and ideal situations, other novelists wrote about true-to-life settings, or at least based the stories from personal experiences.
 Thus, Tagalog romance novels came to mirror or replicate the "roles that women and men play" in Philippine society.
An Echo in the Darkness (1994) is the second novel in the Mark of the Lion Series by Francine Rivers.
 It was awarded a RITA Award for best inspirational romance by the Romance Writers of America in 1995.
Carla Laureano is an American author of inspirational romance and young adult fantasy.
 In 2014, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance for her debut novel "Five Days in Skye".
Linda Goodnight is an American author of inspirational romance, contemporary romance and women's fiction.
 In 2008, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance for her novel "A Touch of Grace".