Romantic Suspense

By Kathleen Friesen (Pelican Book Group)

Just when her career as a carpenter and a relationship with Will Jamison are within reach, Nila Black’s abusive ex-boyfriend is released from prison. He’s out of jail, out for revenge, and making promises she knows he’ll keep. Nila will do anything it takes to save Will and her friends from the evil that will come their way if she doesn’t put distance between them’even if it means abandoning her new-found faith. It will take a miracle and an angelic messenger to show Nila that God is her greatest protector. He has never left her side, and He wants only the best for her and for the man she loves.

By Rachelle Dekker (Revell)

Zoe Johnson spent most of her life living in the shadows, never drawing attention to herself, never investing in people or places. But when a wide-eyed, bedraggled teenager with no memory walks into the diner where Zoe works, everything changes. Now, against her better judgment, Zoe, who has been trying to outrun her own painful memories of the past, finds herself attempting to help a girl who doesn’t seem to have any past at all. The girl knows only one thing: she must reach a woman in Corpus Christi, Texas, hundreds of miles away, before the government agents who are searching for her catch up to them. Award-winning author Rachelle Dekker throws you into the middle of the action and keeps the pressure on in this page-turning story that, asks Are we who the world says we are–or can we change our story and be something more?

By Valerie Hansen (Love Inspired Suspense)

Juror Julie Ann Jones simply didn’t expect the life on the line to be her own. Courtroom tension is running high during a scandal-packed murder case. As the trial heats up, a series of “accidents” begins targeting the jurors—especially Julie Ann. There are gunshots at her beauty salon. A prowler is spotted at her home.

By Kathi Macias (New Hope Publishers)

Forbidden romance, an unlikely martyr, and an even more unlikely hero Orphaned four years earlier when their parents, active in the African National Congress (ANC) movement against apartheid, were murdered?16-year-old Chioma and her 15-year-old brother Masozi now live and work on an Afrikaner family’s farm. When Chioma and Andrew, the farm owner’s son, find themselves attracted to one another, tragedy revisits their lives. Chioma escapes to join an ANC rebel band in her effort to survive and gain revenge for her family and culture. When cultures clash in life-or-death struggles, Chioma must choose between violence and revenge?or forgiveness and selfless love. Loosely based on historical events and set near Pretoria, South Africa, in the violent upheaval prior to ANC leader Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 and his ascendance to the presidency of South Africa, this story of forbidden romance produces an unlikely martyr who is replaced by one even more unlikely.

By Gina Holder (Independently published)

One Book Changed Her Life…and Her EternityHe said he’d never risk leaving a widow. She said she’d never love a man in uniform. Paige McDonald collects antique literature and works at the largest bookstore in Portland, Oregon. When her grandfather, a firefighter, was killed, she vowed never to fall in love with a first responder. An old Bible leads to an unexpected discovery and disrupts everything she knows about herself, her family, and God.

By James Scott Bell (Zondervan)

How far will a man go to protect his family? Attorney Sam Trask will go farther than he ever dreamed, even in his worst nightmare. Because his worst nightmare is about to come true… At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to have his life in order. The dark years of too much drinking and all-consuming ambition have given way to Christian faith. His marriage is strong again. Everything seems finally on the right track.

By Lynn Bulock (Love Inspired Suspense)

I seem to be gathering quite a collection of murder victims: fi rst myhusband, then my contractor. And now my ex-husband’s fi ancée hasturned up dead. But I, Gracie Lee Harris, am on the job—much tothe dismay of my boyfriend, homicide detective Ray Fernandez. I’veenlisted the ladies of the Christian Friends to help me fi gure out whokilled my ex’s sweetie not long before their wedding. My ex is the primesuspect, but his fi ancée kept secrets that might have been deadly.

By Susan May Warren (SDG Publishing)

She put her hand to her chest, still unable to breathe. He had dark hair and a beard, ripped pants, a dirty suit coat and wore such an intense expression of pursuit on his face, she just knew—He was going after Alan Martin. And she might never see him again. No. Not again.

By Melody Carlson (Love Inspired Suspense)

DANGER IN THE DUNES In a deserted area of a beach town, Leah Hampton is helpless against the stranger trying to drag her away at gunpoint. But a handsome man comes to her rescue, risking his life for her. Suddenly, she and Jon Wilson are being hunted by very powerful, dangerous people. Why? Could she have been a target for the human trafficking ring that Jon’s mother suspects is taking over the tiny town? Leah and the brave, love-shy man who saved her are now being framed for their pursuer’s crimes. Hiding out among the fog-shrouded dunes, Leah and Jon must outsmart the ringleader before they’re silenced forever.

By Lynette Eason (Revell)

Summer Abernathy must run for her life when she wakes up to find her husband Kyle missing, three men in her home intent on finding him, and the life she’s been living based on a lie.