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By Don Locke (NavPress)

In 1959, eight-year-old Davy Connors leads an idyllic life in his small Midwestern neighborhood. But when a black family moves in to the all-white community, an undercurrent of racism is exposed. As the issue draws battle lines between friends and family, Davy finds his sympathy for the new family challenged by his father’s bigotry. Can the fragmented community overcome its prejudices and experience true change and healing?

By Thomas Locke (Revell)

Reese Clawson’s work is mind-bending–literally. Her company specializes in global data analysis for an elite group of industry executives, and now a lucrative government contract is moving her into the realm of cutting-edge intelligence gathering. She is determined to crack the limits of consciousness–and in doing so, the boundaries of secrets and lies. But her experiment crashes as test subjects slide into a coma-like state. Reese is left scrambling to maintain control, drawing three disparate people into the search for answers–an adrenaline-amped thrill junkie with altered brain chemistry, an Italian scientist working on remote-viewing technology, and a math prodigy whose algorithms subvert computer encryption.

By Loretta Jackson, Vickie Britton, Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson (Independently published)

AND THE KILLER HAD NO FACE… Lara Radburn arrives minutes after a crime is committed. She finds her renter, Crystal Mar, a local artist, dead.

By Dorothy Love (Thomas Nelson)

When India Hartley is accused of murder, she must uncover the deceptions of others to save herself. India Hartley, a famous and beautiful actress, is now alone after her father’s death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah’s Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night’s performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in front of a packed house, and India is arrested and accused of the crime.

By Dorothy Love (Thomas Nelson)

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal. ” Savannah, Georgia – 1858Celia Browning dreams of the day when her childhood sweetheart Sutton Mackay comes home to Savannah after two years in Jamaica managing his family’s shipping interests. Sutton has all but proposed, and their marriage will unite two of the city’s most prominent families. But just as Sutton returns, a newspaper reporter arrives in town, determined to pry into twin tragedies that took place at the Browning mansion on Madison Square when Celia was a child. While the journalist pursues his story, someone is trying to frighten Celia.

By Elizabeth Ludwig (Bethany House Publishers)

Hunted by dangerous enemies and betrayed by those they loved, can Ana and Eoghan forgive the wounds of the past and learn to trust again?

By Elizabeth Ludwig, Nancy Mehl, Cara Putman, Tricia Goyer, Elizabeth Adams (Guideposts)

New challenges for each of the new seasons of their first year of marriage. This is a series finale four- in- one collection of novellas. Join Cheryl, Levi and Naomi as they solve 4 fun mysteries. Five authors took turns writing different seasons of this book to wrap up the series. I don’t think anyone will be disappointed in how this ends.

By Elizabeth Ludwig (Bethany House)

The Thrill of Romantic Suspense Meets the Romance of 1800s AmericaLured by a handful of scribbled words across a faded letter, Cara Hamilton sets off from 1896 Ireland on a quest to find the brother she’d thought dead. Her search lands her in America, amidst a houseful of strangers and one man who claims to be a friend–Rourke Walsh. Despite her brother’s warning, Cara decides to trust Rourke and reveals the truth about her purpose in America. But he is not who he claims to be, and as rumors begin to circulate about an underground group of dangerous revolutionaries, Cara’s desperation grows. Her questions lead her ever closer to her brother, but they also bring her closer to destruction as Rourke’s true intentions come to light.

By Elizabeth Ludwig (Bethany House Publishers)

Two years ago, Tillie’s fiancé died crossing to America. Now Captain Keondric Morgan believes he was murdered. Can he save Tillie from the same fate?

By Valerie Fraser Luesse (Revell)

There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where ordinary people struggled to right themselves on a social landscape that was dramatically shifting beneath their feet. This is the world of Valerie Fraser Luesse’s stunning debut, Missing Isaac. It is 1965 when black field hand Isaac Reynolds goes missing from the tiny, unassuming town of Glory, Alabama. The townspeople’s reactions range from concern to indifference, but one boy will stop at nothing to find out what happened to his unlikely friend.