Inspirational Suspense Romance

It's the late 1800s, and Hunter Carson has married the woman of his dreams and settled on the land he bought. He's never known God or even much about him. But his tender heart can be touched. His wife—the beautiful and exotic Mexican Rosita DeSantis, is totally in love with him—but something is wrong. Just days after their marriage, why is she crying and touchy? Has she fallen out of love with him already? Or is there something far more serious going on with her? Rosita's past is haunting her emotionally. She adores her new husband, but she'll do anything to keep him from knowing what ...

She sets a thief to catch a thief. Will he also steal her heart? Private investigator Helen Hu must team up with reformed art thief Reuben Costa to rescue her mother, who has vanished while trying to make amends for stealing some bejeweled eggs connected to the Amber Room. Set in Greece and Italy, Once a Thief is Book 1 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson’s Protector Sweethearts Christian romantic suspense series of books that showcase Private Investigator Helen Hu, her associates, and friends. This collection is a spinoff of Jan’s Savannah Sweethearts beach romance and ...

Kiki’s Cocoa Café and Cave is a St. Joseph, Michigan staple. Life for Suzette and her mother, Chloe has settled into a predictable routine – until the hubbub begins for the November 2020 elections. A radical group has managed to put a measure on the ballot that is based on false research, and they are determined to plaster campaign posters in Suzette’s café – against her will. Add to that Ben and Hugo’s issues with a series of deaths in Traverse City, Chloe’s mysterious emails from Oliver, a disappearing professor from Michigan State, and Suzette’s life becomes anything but ...

Cassie Wainwright is alone, except for Poofy her Maine Coon cat. Can he warn her or even protect her from intruders? Why does her doorbell ring at 5 a.m.? Why is there a footprint on her stairs? Who is the good-looking policeman ringing the bell? Who gained access to her house when she recently had the locks changed? Is Patrick the policeman trustworthy, or is he another ploy to romance her and set her off guard from her abuser? Why is he so handsome? Surely, those deep blue eyes glittered with love. Cassie moderates a prayer chain so she has lot of support, prayer-wise. Will prayer be ...

Wills Mason is loved by everyone except Claire Rayner who cannot forgive him for his and her sister's unmerciful, youthful teasing. But now, grown up and serving as a civilian spy, Wills must prove that Claire is not willingly relaying messages to the enemy, as his colonel believes, even when all evidence points that way. Can he prove he's changed and can be trusted to cherish her heart as she deserves to be loved? From childhood up, Claire Anne Rayner has despised the man who's like a brother and son to the rest of the Rayner House residents. But when she puts her musical training on hold ...

Both rebels in their own way, Josie and Jerry Patterson must figure out how to keep the other's love...and keep the German enemy at bay. She has two loves—her skating and Jerry, her husband. But when he returns home looking like a skeleton trying to return to life, she’s scared. What happened in Germany to change a man so much? Has another woman captured his heart? Jerry has vowed to let Josie live her own glamorous life...especially after what happened in Germany. But when his wife's life is threatened, Jerry realizes he can’t stand by and do nothing. Jerry has to risk all for the ...

Time is running out. Lives hang in the balance. And someone wants her breakthrough discovery - at any cost. In the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical research, brilliant scientist Astrid Larsen races against time to find a cure for the devastating disease that took her husband. When her groundbreaking research becomes the target of corporate espionage, she's forced to accept protection from Flynn Rexford, a former Special Forces operative with his own desperate stake in her success - his daughter is dying from the same disease. As threats escalate and their professional boundaries blur ...

Paula Freda, writing as Marianne Dora Rose, presents yet another Contemporary, Clean and Wholesome, Inspirational Suspense Romance for Hearts of All Ages. - Excerpt: It was perhaps ordained that Sister Anne of Our Lady, Mother of Jesus, Foundling Home should be the nun passing by the baby hatch door. Only three days ago, on Christmas Eve, a boy, barely a week old, had been left inside the hatch, sleeping quietly, wrapped in a small striped blue and white blanket, like the ones often seen in maternity wards. A sticky pad note on his blue onesie held only four words. Saint Expeditus protect ...

8 years ago she ran to safety. Now Charlotte Montgomery’s past has caught up with her.Charlotte Montgomery was forced to leave everything behind to shield her son from a dangerous life. As an artist, she’s built a new world of safety and security for them both, far from the shadows that once haunted her. But the peace she’s fought so hard to maintain is shattered when her past comes crashing back. The Italian crime family she escaped from has reappeared, determined to pull her back into their web of deceit and crime. This time, they want her to participate in their money-laundering ...

Can a hometown with a harmful past actually try to kill you? In this rural town in Pennsylvania, quiet trouble lingers everywhere. Just when you think you have a handle on things, the twists and turns keep on coming. Nora Lawrence, a single mother of two, returned to her hometown to visit a relative in the hospital. But when she and her kids get held up at gunpoint, she starts to think that there is more going on in this town than she could have ever thought. Dealing with the emotional damage of almost getting shot, and having to also see her toxic family, Nora starts to become unwound. But...

This hometown with harmful memories just became more dangerous, and more deadly. Sure, it’s quiet and rural here. But that doesn’t mean all is well. A harsh past lives quietly, whispering through the town, and a new threat has just arrived. Nora Lawrence is a busy single mom of two. Working two jobs has completely absorbed her life, which helps her run away from her troubled past. But, when she gets a call that a relative is in the hospital, she has to make the decision: go back to her toxic hometown, or keep herself separated from the harm? Returning home brings back all the memories ...

In 1868, Lydia Blaise is visiting her cousin Edith Miller in the picturesque town of Colorado City at the base of the majestic Pike’s Peak. Upon arriving she is given the facts of strange mishaps and of recent threats to Albert, Edith’s husband. With her inquisitive mind she attempts to uncover the culprit. One burning question—just who is the handsome Josiah Chandler? There is definitely more to the man with the gun strapped on his belt than he wants her to believe. Josiah Chandler is trying to keep a low profile and has been hired on to discover who is trying to kill Mr. Albert ...

When both your physical safety and your heart are threatened, which one do you protect? Belle Cosgrove is incredibly frustrated. Four years after the death of her young husband, she’s finally managed to box up her grief and guilt and move on, having convinced herself she neither wants nor deserves another relationship. But now when her massage clinic is thriving, she’s just adopted a dog, and the future is looking bright, her newfound peace is threatened by disturbing notes and gifts from an anonymous stalker. Huckleberry Ridge police corporal, Woody Bannock, has decided it’s much ...

When burglars target the palatial estates of American billionaires in a series of high-tech heists, Kate must venture inside the world of the superrich to investigate the biggest story of the year. But the answers don’t come easy. The Los Angeles police detective who’s helping Kate with the case has mysteriously disappeared, Kate’s senator father demands she stop investigating, and the billionaire victims refuse to talk to the media. Still, Kate uncovers clues that prove the crimes are anything but ordinary: those behind the robberies have shocking - but uplifting - motives....

Advised by a quack doctor in 1915 that her unborn child is at risk for lunacy, a wealthy woman pays a midwife to secretly switch her baby with the newborn daughter of a penniless couple. Twenty-one years later, when the horrifying truth is revealed in a Last Will and Testament, Harper Harrington is forced to swap places with Veezie, the rightful heir. The backwoodsy Veezie wastes no time booting Harper out of palatial Nine Gables. With no funds and nowhere to go, Harper moves into the rundown shanty that Veezie previously called home, in Goose Hollow, Alabama. But Harper soon discovers the ...

Step into the Wild West with "Patiently Charmed," the gripping third book in the Bareglen Creek, TX series. Mary Hawarden Trost is a strong and independent woman who will stop at nothing to fulfill her late husband's dreams. But when Mike's family threatens to take her beloved farm away, Mary's world crumbles around her. Enter Doctor Lee Jamison, a renowned psychiatrist and the only man who has captured Mary's heart. Lee will do anything to help Mary leave the past behind, but sinister forces are working against them. As they face trial after trial, Mary and Lee must fight for their love ...

Did Peter and Megan finally find the killer’s identity? After searching through multiple suspects, Peter and Megan finally think they have found whom they were looking for. As their connection grows stronger, will they be able to keep their feelings at bay as they finally get the man they’ve been looking for? June and Mabel are so close to finally being free of the Walker’s and their torment. After several different houses of torment and anguish, they finally have the chance to be free, with Elliot’s help. However, that all gets turned upside down when they receive a source of help ...

In the first installment of the Bowman Case Files, bored and entitled university student Julia Strauss meets a captivating man during a random encounter at a cafe. She is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger and pursues him obsessively. What she doesn’t know is that behind all the charm, he has a secret agenda of his own. Can Julia see beyond the haze of her infatuation before it’s too late?

A young lobsterman is missing. Is it foul play? And why is James acting so weirdly? Emily is trying to plan a wedding, but does she really know the man she's about to marry? Does she really know anyone on the island?

She's agreed to a loveless marriage. He'll stop her no matter the cost. Will the price to protect their lives mean risking their hearts? The holidays are over, and aristocrat Anna Whitloch must leave Crystal Creek and return to Eastern Europe. She made a promise, a promise that will save her mother’s estate. Someone else has other ideas. Ideas that will get Anna out of the way permanently. Anna can take care of herself, so why was Deputy Rocco Ventali assigned to protect her? She can’t depend on him, as he proved that night ten years ago when they had planned to meet. He never showed. ...