By Title

By Suzanne Woods Fisher (Revell)

Twenty-year-old Bethany Schrock is restless. Her love life has derailed, her faith hangs by a thread, and she is spending the incredibly hot summer days wading through a lifetime’s accumulation of junk at the home of five ancient Amish sisters. About the only thing that holds her interest is the spirited and dangerously handsome Jimmy Fisher–and he seems bent on irritating her to no end. When the sly old sisters and a guest at the Inn get Bethany involved in running the local soup kitchen and starting a community garden, she suddenly finds herself wondering, Shootfire! How did that happen? Despite her newfound purposefulness, a gnawing emptiness about a childhood mystery continues to plague her. Encouraged by Jimmy Fisher, she will seek out the answers she craves–and uncover a shocking secret that will break her heart, heal it, and point her to love.

By Elizabeth Goddard (Barbour Publishing, Inc.)

Crash the wedding and meet photographer Polly Perkins who zooms in on a murder victim. As she studies an endless line of potential suspects from safely behind her camera, Polly finds love staring back at her. Will her uncanny ability to read emotions through a camera lens help prevent another murder—while exploring her own potential for romance?

By Deb Richardson-Moore (Lion Fiction)

The worst thing about being homeless is being looked right through. ‘ It’s ten years since wealthy matriarch Alberta Resnick was found stabbed to death in Georgia. Local reporter Branigan Powers sets out to investigate the city’s only unsolved murder. Branigan knows that the homeless often have information, but are rarely asked. She gets in touch with Liam, a pastor who runs a shelter.

By A. K. Arenz (Sheaf House Publishers)

Empty.

By Lynne Hinton (Thomas Nelson)

She’s not your average nun. And now Sister Eve Divine’s risking it all, searching for a mission person in Vegas. Sister Eve Divine recently discovered she’s got a gift: turns out she’s a natural at private detective work. But is it a temptation or a calling? As Eve wrestles with this question, she’s taking a leave of absence from the convent, investigating a case with her PI father. But something else troubles Eve.

By Linda W. Yezak (Pelican Book Group)

Emily Taylor loves to help people, loves to ease their burdens and make their dreams come true. But when a conman ruins her reputation, she discovers that helping others is safer and easier from behind the scenes. When one of Emily’s gifts captures the attention of an avid journalist, her identity as the town’s anonymous benefactor’and her renewed relationship with her high school sweetheart’are threatened. As her private life begins to unravel, she realizes the one hope for regaining control lies behind prison walls.

By Joyce Magnin (Abingdon Press)

Charlotte Figg makes me want to move to Paradise and bake pies and embrace the freedom to be who God made me to be. Once you’ve laughed and cried and eaten with the Paradise Angels, you’ll want to do the same. Kudos to Joyce Magnin, the Queen of Quirk. —Nancy Rue, bestselling fiction author Welcome to the Paradise Trailer Park where softball is queen, the pie is tasty, and the secrets must be told. Filled with a sudden burst of wanderlust after the death of her husband, Charlotte Figg moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog, Lucky.

By Naomi Miller (S&G Publishing)

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mysteries are as much a part of daily life as Katie Chupp’s Christmas cookies. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. With a winter chill settling in and Christmas right around the corner, no one would expect a mystery, but a mystery does indeed appear.

By Cindy Woodsmall, Erin Woodsmall (WaterBrook)

When an Old Order Amish woman takes a job at a small-town pharmacy struggling to survive in a world of “big box” stores, her motive is to help her Plain community. But the advent of the holiday season brings an unusual mystery to the surface–and possibly love. Twenty-four-year-old Holly Zook lives a unique life for a young Amish woman. Years ago, her bishop allowed her to continue her education and become the lead technician for Greene’s Pharmacy, an old-timey drugstore that looks out for the Amish community–a group largely without secure healthcare plans. She knows she can’t marry and hold onto her professional job.

By Julie Carobini (Dolphin Gate Books)

There’s a thief in Cottage Grove, and Tasha’s a suspect. Not exactly the dream she’d had in mind when she moved into her rustic fixer-upper cottage. Marc Shepherd wasn’t part of her plans either. The Stetson-wearing contractor moved in next door, kicking up dust and threatening to cut down a beloved pine that shaded Tasha’s cabin. With Christmas around the bend, and a criminal threatening the community’s peace, will Tasha solve the puzzle.