Critical Care (Mercy Hospital, Book 1)
By Candace Calvert (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.)
Release date: May 20, 2009
After her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She’s determined to make a fresh start—new hospital, new career in nursing education—move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she’s called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion. Worse, she’s forced back to the ER, where she clashes with Logan Caldwell, a doctor who believes touchy-feely counseling is a waste of time. He demands his staff be as tough as he is.
Critical Condition (Undercover Cops)
By Sandra Orchard (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: October 1, 2012
There’s a murderer in the hospital, and nurse Tara Peterson is determined to prove it. With mysterious deaths in the cancer ward, anyone could be next. But no one wants to believe her…except undercover agent Zach Davis. The murderer wants Tara’s suspicions silenced, permanently. To protect Tara, Zach lets her in on his secret, and unwittingly into his heart.
Critical Diagnosis (Love Inspired Suspense)
By Alison Stone (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: July 1, 2014
HER PERSONAL PROTECTOR Researcher Dr. Lily McAllister has dedicated her life to finding a cure for a family disease and now, steps away from a promising new treatment, Lily is attacked. Only the training of army physician James O’Reilly can save her. As the would-be CEO of his family’s pharmaceutical company, James’s secret dream is to reenlist. But he can’t leave Lily with a bull’s-eye on her back.
Critical Impact (Whisper Lake)
By Linda Hall (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: October 1, 2010
The bomb wasn’t supposed to be real. But the mock-disaster explosion to test emergency procedures killed two people in a small Maine town. And all evidence points to shy makeup artist Anna Barker as the prime suspect. When Deputy Sheriff Stu McCabe is assigned to investigate the case, Anna hopes he’ll prove her innocent. But with a harrowing past of his own, Stu seems to trust no one.
Critical Threat (Extreme Measures #3)
By Lynette Eason (Revell)
Release date: January 3, 2023
FBI Special Agent Grace Billingsley tracks serial killers, using her skills as a psychiatrist and behavioral analyst to get dangerous people off the street and safely behind bars. But prison psychiatrist Sam Monroe knows that just because a killer is incarcerated doesn\’t mean they\’re not a threat. His own father, Peter, is a serial killer–in prison but certainly not out of Sam\’s life, as much as he wishes he was. When bodies start showing up with Peter\’s MO, Sam and Grace are both called in to consult. They\’ve met before–and though Grace thought they\’d made a real connection, Sam ghosted her.
Crossfire (Extreme Measures Book #2)
By Lynette Eason (Revell)
Release date: August 2, 2022
FBI special agent Julianna Jameson is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely she can manage to take care of her much younger sister, Dottie, who showed up unannounced to live with Julianna while she finished her senior year of high school. A former sniper with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Clay Fox left the army after a tragic incident that he can\’t get past. Now he\’s working as a high school resource officer until he can figure out what to do with the rest of his life. Their paths cross when Julianna is called in to negotiate a courtroom hostage situation involving Clay\’s sister.
Crossfire (Love Inspired Suspense)
By Jodie Bailey (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: January 1, 2014
A DANGEROUS REUNION After he couldn’t save her brother, army first sergeant Josh Walker isn’t about to let anything happen to Andrea Donovan. Josh may have saved her from one attack, but drug smugglers are desperate to get information about one of Andrea’s patients—a patient who’s disappeared without a trace. Despite the danger, the beautiful counselor refuses to hand over confidential files. Now Josh and Andrea have no choice but to battle on for their lives—and their love—or they’ll be the latest casualty to get caught in the crossfire.
Crossfire: A Montana Rescue Novella
By Susan May Warren (SDG Publishing)
Release date: September 12, 2017
The woman he loves is caught in the crossfire of revenge…but he’ll have to face his crimes to save her. A Montana Rescue novella by acclaimed, RITA award-winning, USA Today best-selling author Susan May Warren Seven years have passed since ranch foreman Kade Logan walked away from small town Dawson, Montana and the woman he loved, Haddie Brown. He had his reasons, including a dark secret that made him swear never to return to eastern Montana oil country. Since then, he’s thrown himself into his job as foreman of billionaire rancher Ian Shaw’s spread in western Montana. He’s built a new life far from the mistakes—and broken heart—he left behind.
Crosshairs (Natchez Trace Park Rangers Book #3)
By Patricia Bradley (Revell)
Release date: November 2, 2021
Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont arrives in her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a three-month-pregnant teenager. While she wishes the visit was under better circumstances, she never imagined that she would become the killer\’s next target–nor that she\’d have to work alongside an old flame. After he almost killed a child, former FBI sniper Lincoln Steele couldn\’t bring himself to fire a gun, which had deadly and unforeseen consequences for his best friend. Crushed beneath a load of guilt, Linc is working at Melrose Estate as an interpretive ranger. But as danger closes in on Ainsley during her murder investigation, Linc will have to find the courage to protect her.
Crown of Souls (The Tox Files)
By Ronie Kendig (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: September 5, 2017
“Kendig has out done herself. “–RT Book Reviews on Conspiracy of SilenceSix months after stopping a deadly plague, Cole “Tox” Russell and his team are enjoying a little rest. That peace is short-lived when a sniper shot hits Tox. The enemy is discovered to be one of their own, a rogue Special Forces team operator. Alec King is perhaps the only person as skilled as Tox, and he’s out for justice.