Romantic Suspense

By Mary Connealy (Barbour Publishing, Inc)

 BEING NAMED IN GREATGRANDMA’S WILL WAS LIKE HITTING BANKRUPT ON WHEEL OF FORTUNE. The whole family held their breath while the wheel ticked around and around?or rather while the lawyer opened the envelope. Then they all heaved a sigh of relief when the wheel stopped on Carrie Evans’s name.

By Annalisa Daughety (Guideposts)

Cheryl Cooper and Levi Miller have painstakingly planned a special “Live Like the Amish” weekend for a group of senior citizens. The Miller family farm will serve as the perfect backdrop for the event, and they plan to give their guests an inside look at all things Amish– from buggies to fry pies and everything in between. It promises to be a relaxing time for all.

By Mary Ellen Porter (Love Inspired Suspense)

HOLIDAY HIDEOUTWhen computer expert Arden DeMarco hacks secret files and discovers evidence of treason, a price is put on her head. What started as a mission to help a friend is now a fight for her life with assassins and the FBI tracking her down. There’s no time to get distracted by her brother’s best friend, Kane Walker, but the security expert promised Arden’s family he’d bring her safely home for the holidays. Instead they’re dodging bullets—and fighting their growing feelings—while Arden races to break the encryption and find out what’s hidden in the files she stole. But as they’re hunted by armed henchmen determined to make sure those secrets are never uncovered, keeping Arden safe is the only Christmas gift that matters….

By JL Crosswhite (Tandem Services Press)

She thought it was a road trip adventure…
…He figured it was the perfect opportunity. But her stalker was on the road to retaliation, and she was his destination. Relocation specialist Allie Ellis’s neatly ordered life is turned upside down by the reappearance of her old teen crush. And somehow he’s been recruited to join her family’s planned road trip. Detective Steve Collins never got over the girl he let get away in high school.

By JL Crosswhite (Tandem Services Press)

She thought it was a road trip adventure…
…He figured it was the perfect opportunity. But her stalker was on the road to retaliation, and she was his destination. Relocation specialist Allie Ellis’s neatly ordered life is turned upside down by the reappearance of her old teen crush. And somehow he’s been recruited to join her family’s planned road trip. Detective Steve Collins never got over the girl he let get away in high school.

By D.L. Wood (Silverglass Press)

Some decisions are deadly. Addie Nichols, a young, ambitious chef, is determined to make her new Manhattan restaurant a culinary sensation. Pursuing her dream has cost her everything, including financial stability. Though the restaurant is gaining ground, Addie can’t even afford to pay her rent. One night a wealthy socialite makes Addie an unbelievable offer: an exorbitant sum for personally catering a weekend celebration for her husband on their secluded private island, nestled in the idyllic Thousand Islands.

By Debby Giusti (Love Inspired Suspense)

In the middle of the night, Maggie Bennett finds her army officer sister dead in her military housing. She’s devastated by the loss of the estranged sibling with whom she was trying to reconnect. But as U. S. Army criminal investigations agent Nate Patterson begins asking questions about the officer’s suspicious death, Maggie can’t tell the handsome man everything she knows.

By Robin Parrish (Bethany House)

The return of NASA’s first manned mission to Mars was supposed to be a momentous day. But when the crew loses touch with ground control before entry, things look bleak. Safe after a treacherous landing, the crew emerges to discover the unthinkable–every man, woman, child, and animal has vanished without a trace. Alone now on their home planet, the crew sets out to discover where everyone has gone–and how to get them back–only to discover they may not be as alone as they thought.

By Jeff Nesbit (Summerside Press)

Plunge into the heart of the oil conflicts that pit nation against nation in the Middle East and dramatically impact the entire globe. As Russia moves aggressively to seize control of the Baku pipeline, the gigantic oil fields in Saudi Arabia and Iran fail. Then one of the largest natural gas discoveries in the world is made just off Israel’s coastline in the Mediterranean. With the Eilat-to-Ashkelon pipeline— funded by Nazi war reparations—connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, Israel emerges at the center of Middle East conflicts over oil trade routes. Enemies on all sides plot their downfall, and the U.

By Russell Kirk (Eerdmans)

Attorney Hugh Logan leaves Canada for Scotland to negotiate the purchase of Carnglass Island and the castle Old House of Fear for his employer, Duncan MacAskival. Logan is continually thwarted and threatened on his journey. But no matter how bad his travels, his arrival onto the island brings much worse trouble. Carnglass is under the control of evil genius Dr. Edmund Jackman, a Soviet-educated political revolutionary convinced that Logan is a spy who must die.