By Title

By Christy Barritt (River Heights)

Sometimes, coming home is beautiful. Other times, it’s fatal. Private investigator Olive Sterling never wanted to return to Oasis, Texas. But when an old flame asks her to investigate a beloved local teacher who claims to have terminal cancer, she reluctantly agrees to help. While the community rallies around Rebecca Roberts with prayers and financial support, something about her story doesn’t add up.

By Shelley Shepard Gray (Zondervan)

The World’s Fair has introduced many new ideas to Chicago society—but can two individuals from very different backgrounds find love together?It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago’s wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa confided in only one friend.

By Ginny Aiken (Revell)

Haley Farrell’s life is back on track. Cleared of any involvement in the murder of her best friend, Haley has found loyal decorating clients and has taken over a successful auction house. Life is good–even if she does have to deal with good-looking but infuriating general contractor Dutch Merrill once again. But when another body is uncovered, it’s clear that the death was no accident. What’s worse, Dutch is implicated.

By Vannetta Chapman (Harvest House Publishers)

All It Takes Is One Night to Plunge the World into Darkness Life in Abney, Texas, is predictable and safe—until the night a massive solar flare wipes out all modern technology. Shelby Sparks, novelist and single mom, had one goal: to provide for her diabetic son. In the wake of this global disaster, her mission hasn’t changed. Only now, medication is a priceless commodity and the future resembles an apocalyptic nightmare. Max Berkman and Shelby were once sweethearts, but he lost his chance at claiming her love years ago.

By Sue Duffy (Kregel Publications)

Twenty-year-old Tally Greyson isn’t consumed with her own education, social life, or career goals like most young women her age. Instead, she’s trying to save her mother from the grasp of a seductive cult. What Tally doesn’t realize is that in this community, there’s a far greater danger than any she can imagine—and she and her mother aren’t the only ones in its sights. There are plots brewing here that will threaten the fate of the world. Concert pianist Liesl Bower has put her own dangerous past behind her, and in her Charleston family home, surrounded by those who love her, she’s preparing for a world concert tour with her dear friend, violinist Max Morozov.

By Chris Well ()

Everyone from the Feds to the mob is scrambling to find the husband of heartless media mogul Evelyn Blake. But no one can decide which is worse–that he is missing, or that she is not. Detectives Tom Griggs and Charlie Pasch are feeling the heat from on high to get this thing solved–even as Charlie is distracted by the inexplicable interest the Vice Squad has taken in a local comic book store.

By Lorena McCourtney (Rogue Ridge Press)

Ivy and Mac are in their motorhome, headed for their long-delayed honeymoon. Baja! Beaches! Romance, sunshine, and shrimp tacos! But a panicky phone call from good friend Magnolia, who is, as usual, looking into her complicated family genealogy, changes their plans. Magnolia has found a dead body. She’s lost a dead body. Ivy and Mac decide making a side-trip to a desert ghost town won’t take long.

By Lorena McCourtney (Rogue Ridge Press)

Ivy and Mac are on the road, headed for their long-delayed honeymoon. Baja! Beaches! Romance and shrimp tacos and sunshine!But then comes a panicky phone call from good friend Magnolia, who is, as usual, looking into her complicated family genealogy. What she’s found this time is not another fourth-cousin-three-times-removed, but a dead body in the middle of a desert town. Except that this body, unlike the dead bodies with which Ivy has had past experience, has vanished. Magnolia is uncertain if she made a foolish mistake about there ever being a body, or if something sinister is going on.

By Ginny Aiken (Revell)

Haley Farrell is taking a chance on herself. After receiving her interior design certificate, she quits her job at the local furniture store and decides to open her own interior decorating business. But with all the advantages of her new career-meeting new people, and decorating new and old homes-comes a huge pitfall. Her new job allows her access into her clients’ homes and their lives.

By Sandra Orchard (Revell)

Researcher Kate Adams has finally pinpointed the medicinal plant responsible for tearing her family apart. She’s certain that discovering its secrets is her only hope of solving the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her father. Kate will risk anything to find the truth–even her budding relationship with Detective Tom Parker. But more people than she can fathom are after the plants and going it alone just might prove to be a fatal mistake. Award-winning author Sandra Orchard pulls out all the stops in this breakneck and breathtaking conclusion to the Port Aster series.