For her philanthropic work and advocacy of health, women's, children's, ethnic, and cultural groups, she was awarded an admiralship of the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska by then-governor Ben Nelson.

The two books weren't without controversy from conservative readers--Demon for its darkly spiritual subject matter and Havah for its sensuality in the portrayal of Eve's relationship with Adam.

In 2010, Lee left her position with Gallup and signed on to write the post-apocalyptic Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller, Ted Dekker.

Forbidden, the first novel in the series, debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list in September 2011, as did the second installment, Mortal, in June 2012.

[8] Publishers Weekly praised Iscariot as "mind-bending Biblical fiction that dares to put readers in the mind of the most infamous character of Christian history" calling Lee's research and writing "impeccable and masterful.

[16] November 2018 Deadline Hollywood announced the CW Network had bought the series, with CBS TV Studios joining production and Orphan Black's Chris Roberts attached to show run and write.

[17] The Line Between, Lee's apocalyptic thriller about a young woman ousted from an Iowa doomsday cult as a pandemic breaks out across the United States, entered development for TV by Radar Pictures and Marlboro Road Gang Productions prior to its release, as reported by Deadline Hollywood.

[21] In addition to English, Lee's novels have been published in Dutch, Portuguese, Indonesian, Spanish, Korean, Slovakian, Turkish, Estonian, Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, and Croatian.