Karen Ball
Shattered Justice (Family Honor Series #1)
By Karen Ball (Multnomah Books)
Release date: June 8, 2005
Deputy’s Sense of Justice Destroyed There’s no way sheriff’s deputy Dan Justice could have prepared for this. He spent a lifetime ensuring his actions and faith live up to the meaning of his name-Avidan: “God is just” Then injustice invades his world, ripping away what matters most, forever robbing him of the life he once knew. Can his sisters and small-town community-especially one woman who loves Dan-help him overcome the horrors he’s facing? Or will bitterness and anger shatter him forever? What happens when justice fails the lawman? Sanctuary, Oregon. A town where the local diner owner makes you drink your milk-no matter how old you are. Where juvenile delinquency means blowing up outhouses.
What Lies Within (Family Honor Series #3)
By Karen Ball (Multnomah Books)
Release date: November 20, 2007
Nothing’s going to stop Kyla…until the ground crumbles beneath her feet. Kyla Justice has arrived. Her company, Justice Construction, is one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful companies in the Pacific Northwest. And yet, something is missing. Not until she’s called on to build a center for inner-city kids does she realize what it is: her sense of purpose.
Mary L Ball
Stone of Destiny
By Mary L Ball (Prism Book Group)
Release date: September 6, 2013
Taylor Harrison has given up on everything but her work. After becoming the youngest CEO of Mugful’s Beverage Company, she believes life is complete–until her grandmother asks her to oversee the renovations of the family home, in addition to searching for a missing heirloom. Her first contact with what she believes is an insignificant ring, lost for fifty years, sends her life spinning. Taylor experiences strange dreams. Unexpected feelings surface that she doesn’t understand.
Sunny’s Dream (Celestial Investigation) (Volume 1)
By Mary L Ball (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Release date: December 10, 2017
Sunny Kast spends her week fighting cyber-crime, and dreaming of her prince charming. When a man walks into Celestial Investigations, and introduces himself as Trouble, she’s sure he’s not her prince, and positive that he lives up to his name. After Max Trouble finds an important document his life gets complicated with the know-it-all P. I. hired to track down its owner.
Karen Barnett
Ever Faithful: A Vintage National Parks Novel
By Karen Barnett (WaterBrook)
Release date: June 18, 2019
Vibrant historic Yellowstone National Park comes to life in this romantic mystery about a man hiding the truth, braving the west to become something more–and the woman who must confront his deception. A man who can’t read will never amount to anything–or so Nate Webber believes. But he takes a chance to help his family by signing up for the new Civilian Conservation Corps, skirting the truth about certain “requirements. ” Nate exchanges the harsh Brooklyn streets for the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, curious if the Eden-like wonderland can transform him as well. Elsie Brookes was proud to grow up as a ranger’s daughter, but she longs for a future of her own.
Mistaken: First Impressions Are Never What They Seem
By Karen Barnett (Abingdon Press)
Release date: July 2, 2013
Laurie’s judgment about men has never steered her wrong. Until now. Since alcohol and prohibition have made criminals out of every man in her world, Laurie Burke resolves to find at least one honorable man. Convinced that handsome newcomer, Daniel Shepherd, is connected with her brother’s rum-running gang, Laurie quickly scratches his name off her list. Federal agent Samuel Brown might be the answer to her prayers—or her worst nightmare.
The Road to Paradise: A Vintage National Parks Novel
By Karen Barnett (WaterBrook)
Release date: June 6, 2017
An ideal sanctuary and a dream come true–that’s what Margaret Lane feels as she takes in God’s gorgeous handiwork in Mount Rainier National Park. It’s 1927 and the National Park Service is in its youth when Margie, an avid naturalist, lands a coveted position alongside the park rangers living and working in the unrivaled splendor of Mount Rainier’s long shadow. But Chief Ranger Ford Brayden is still haunted by his father’s death on the mountain, and the ranger takes his work managing the park and its crowd of visitors seriously. The job of watching over an idealistic senator’s daughter with few practical survival skills seems a waste of resources. When Margie’s former fiancé sets his mind on developing the Paradise Inn and its surroundings into a tourist playground, the plans might put more than the park’s pristine beauty in danger.
Where the Fire Falls: A Vintage National Parks Novel
By Karen Barnett (WaterBrook)
Release date: June 5, 2018
Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as “pervaded with divine light. “Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford has shed her humble beginnings to fashion her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region’s wealthy art-collectors. When she lands a lucrative contract painting illustrations of Yosemite National Park for a travel magazine, including its nightly one-of-a-kind Firefall event, she hopes the money will lift Olivia and her sisters out of poverty. After false accusations cost him everything, former minister Clark Johnson has found purpose as a backcountry guide in this natural cathedral of granite and trees. Now he’s faced with the opportunity to become a National Parks Ranger, but is it his true calling? As Clark opens Olivia’s eyes to the wonders of Yosemite, she discovers the people are as vital to the park’s story as its vistas–a revelation that may bring her charade to an end.
James Barney
The Joshua Stone
By James Barney (William Morrow Paperbacks)
Release date: October 8, 2013
Some secrets belong to the past. Others refuse to stay there. In 1959, in an underground laboratory in a remote region of West Virginia, a secret government experiment went terribly awry.
Todd Michael Barrett
The Curse
By Todd Michael Barrett (Pleasant Word-A Division of WinePress Publishing)
Release date: December 10, 2008
“1850s Oregon Territory finds young & innocent Katie eager to find her handsome prince and start a family on the frontier. But when her true love finally comes along in the steadfast form of John Jakes, she has to fight the dark forces hoping to steal him away. Will she prevail? And at what cost will this victory be gained? Many daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters later, Rebecca Jakes/Lindsay takes her place in the Jakes line. Happily married to Brad for six years, she wants a baby and she wants one now. Yet her Los Angeles doctors cannot identify why she is not able to conceive.