Mysteries

By Steven James (Skyscape)

Don’t miss this intriguing and climactic conclusion to the Blur Trilogy. As Daniel Byers prepares to attend a basketball camp before his senior year of high school, the terrifying blurs that’ve plagued him for the last nine months return. Dark images begin to haunt him—creatures crawling from the deepest pits of his nightmares, glimmers of chilling memories from his early childhood. But before he can unearth the meaning behind his mysterious hallucinations, Daniel must team up with two other extraordinary teens to save a young woman who has been abducted by a scientist obsessed with enacting his own warped form of justice. This atmospheric mystery picks up where Fury left off and takes readers into the uncharted regions where reality and madness intertwine.

By Billy Coffey (Thomas Nelson)

With the “profound sense of Southern spirituality” he is known for (Publishers Weekly), Billy Coffey draws us into a town where good and evil—and myth and reality—intertwine in unexpected ways. Everyone in Crow Hollow knows of Alvaretta Graves, the old widow who lives in the mountain. Many call her a witch; others whisper she’s insane. Everyone agrees the vengeance Alvaretta swore at her husband’s death hovers over them all. That vengeance awakens when teenagers stumble upon Alvaretta’s cabin, incurring her curse.

By Jaime Jo Wright (Bethany House Publishers)

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother–who is battling dementia–compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity.

By Jaime Jo Wright (Bethany House Publishers)

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother–who is battling dementia–compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity.

By Nancy Wentz (Whitaker House)

A ten-year-old boy known as Luke escapes from hisabusive father, and a local pastor takes him in only todiscover that the boy is a prophet with a powerful anointingfrom God. Luke s gift of prophecy leads him into directconfl ict with the Fratellis, a powerful mafi a family with agenerational curse of demon possession dating back to thesixteenth century. As Luke navigates the spiritual world and the streets ofDepression-era Denver, Colorado, he is befriended bythree unlikely people: a member of the Fratelli family, thecrusading attorney trying to take down the family, and ClaraCrawford, an intriguing woman who is caught betweenthe two sides. Will this boy and his gift be enough to savelives and souls before the cycle of revenge and demonicpossession destroys everyone he knows? His only weaponis the all-powerful name of Jesus.

By Craig Parshall (Harvest House Publishers)

Tim LaHaye called The Resurrection File—Craig Parshall’s first novel—“one of the most fascinating books I have read in years. ” Parshall continues with Custody of the State, another legal thriller with tightly drawn characters, tense courtroom scenes, and the struggle of a man to bring his beliefs into real life. Attorney Will Chambers reluctantly agrees to defend a young mother from Georgia and her farmer husband, suspected of committing the unthinkable against their own child. Soon he’s confronting small–town secrets, big–time corruption, and a government system that’s destroying the little family. Chambers must ask, does God really protect us from evil?—as intimidation, backroom maneuvering, and the shadow of a national threat throw him into.

By M. K. Gilroy (Worthy Books)

“An intense, eerie, funny and suspenseful thriller. M. K.

By Ace Collins (Abingdon Press)

When your entire future is destroyed, why would you bother to rebuild? Leslie Rhoads is on the verge of having her dream of becoming a supermodel come true. But before she can step into the spotlight, she is assaulted and disfigured. Without her perfect face, she is lost, and no amount of surgery can ever make her what she once was. Trying to hide her face from the world and on the verge of suicide, Leslie meets Angel—a young girl who is inexplicably able to break through the hurt and show Leslie that love truly is blind. But as she starts to rebuild her troubled life, Leslie’s fears resurface.

By Jeffrey Overstreet (WaterBrook)

In the second book in the Auralia Thread series, the power of Auralia’s colors brings together a bloodthirsty beastman and a grieving widow in a most unlikely relationship, one that not only will change their lives, but could also impact the four kingdoms of The Expanse forever. Jordam is one of four ferocious brothers from the clan of cursed beastmen. But he is unique: The glory of Auralia’s colors has enchanted him, awakening a noble conscience that clashes with his vicious appetites. Cyndere, heiress to a great ruling house, and her husband Deuneroi share a dream of helping the beastmen. But when Deuneroi is killed by the very people he sought to help, Cyndere risks her life and reputation to reach out to Jordam.