Inspirational Suspense

He wanted a chance for redemption, but now he’s in way over his head. A year ago, pro mountain biker Chase Reese had it all. One crash too many brought it all tumbling down. Now he’s back in Hope Landing, trying to earn a spot on his brother’s private protection team, Knight Tactical. Only life isn’t working out the way he expected. It’s fast becoming clear that he’s not a good fit for the team. If he quits, he’ll be back at square one. No job. No identity. No spectacular life plan. And just when life's already bad... Marissa Harris shows back up in his life. The one woman he ...

THIS BOOK WAS INSPIRED BY MY TRUE-LIFE EVENTS. Every daughter wants to be her father’s little princess forever. An innocent promise Chasity made to her father Peter Alfred when she was a child and did not know would be her biggest regret. Chasity Alfred lived broken and in despair, after her father, Peter Alfred took her innocence. For years she lived in the prison she called home, keeping up the persona of a brilliant young girl who had the perfect family life and home. unable to truly tell a soul of the nightmare she lived under that roof, and the torture that awaited her at the hands ...

A murder investigation uncovers sordid secrets and haunting mistakes The Darkwater Inn stands tall and proud in the French Quarter, the hub of New Orleans. Bourbon Street is bustling, and general manager Adelaide Fountaine has her hands full with a hotel at capacity. But she is shocked when a body is found: a hotel guest stabbed with a kitchen knife. Detective Beau Savoie, Adelaide's childhood friend, is on the case. As Beau digs into the victim's past, he unearths a shocking connection between Adelaide and the murdered guest. Beau is hurt that his friend--the woman he's quietly loved for ...

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

Dr. Marty Morales just got hired to help the women of Faith Valley… He had no idea that one of them was going to be his best friend. It’s not easy settling into a new job, especially when Marty can't shake off the feeling something is amiss in his small town. Rumors and whispers about his aunt using her influence to get him hired only add to his unease. But things take a turn for the strange when his best friend becomes one of his patients. As Marty grapples with the pressure to prove himself as capable as his older cousins, he starts to uncover a dark secret that could change ...

The day millions of people mysteriously vanished from planet earth, the world was forever changed. Oddly enough, most of us that remained thought it was a change for the better. But that was wrong… way wrong. World leaders hailed this new era as a return to the golden age. Life was supposed to be better than it had ever been. But we were just in the calm before the storm. The four horsemen of the apocalypse were waiting in the wings, and the world was rushing head long into a period of death and destruction like we had never imagined. Somehow I made it through alive… that’s ...

Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips, all the time. As a widow with a young, deaf son, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on the life of Lilliana York...a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before Elise can decide what to do, she gets a call that her son is being rushed to the E.R. and must leave. Then later she sees the news report that her mother-in-law has been shot and killed. But when she comes forward, her life, as well as her son's life, may now ...

Small town. Big secrets. Deadly lies. Legal clinic attorney Emmie MacKenzie has finally accepted her father's claim that her mother's death at the hands of a drunk driver was no accident, but agreeing to work with brusque, self-centered bad boy, Skeet Archer, to find the real killers? A seriously bad idea. He might be the youngest son of the mighty Archer clan, but Skeet is the ultimate outsider in MacKenzie Cove. He dreads returning to the tiny beachside town where everyone knows his past, but clearing his half-brother of the six-year-old crime will erase a debt he’s owed for far too ...

It can cure you. Or it can kill you. The untamed Louisiana bayou is not for the faint of heart. But until now, Tara LeBlanc has always considered it a sanctuary, its lush foliage a source of medicinal healing. What evil has infi ltrated her haven? Two elderly women she loves lie near death, and Tara knows their illnesses are no accident. Only one man can save Tara from the same fate: Sheriff Rene "Bubba" Theriot. The strong-willed lawman throws his all into protecting her, laying his heart on the line as well as his life. Now they both stand to lose it all as a killer gets ready to pounce….

Would you seek revenge for a vicious wrongdoing? Sister Michael Mary faces this predicament in this poignant, suspenseful and inspirational short story about fate and forgiveness. Suddenly, her life is forever changed. Now, Sister Michael Mary is burdened with a terrible secret. Can she put vengeance out of her mind, and continue to pray and to do good works as a sister of Saint Bartholomew’s? The compassionate and dedicated nun thought she could forget. She knew she should forgive. But when opportunity knocks, Sister Michael Mary plots revenge. Will she take action and break with the ...

Jack You know who I am You know what I can do! I am vast Get your mind out of the gutter I meet an Angel Gorgeous in a Wheelchair Her Ex hurt her He will pay for hurting an angel And she will see what it means to be Respected, Protected, and Connected By a Real Man!

Has the past come back to haunt the Darkwater Inn? Adelaide Fountaine, general manager, is enthusiastically renovating parts of the Darkwater Inn. Her intentions come to a screeching halt when a skeleton is found behind a makeshift wall—an axe beside it. Something ghastly from the past has come back to haunt the Darkwater Inn. As Adelaide works alongside owner Dimitri Pampalon and Detective Beau Savoie, the two men who have been pursuing her heart, she learns the eerie death has tentacles that reach deep into the seedy past of both the Darkwater Inn and the evil underground of New Orleans...

Homecomings can be deadly. When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations...none of them good. What he doesn't expect is to find his first love targeted by a murderer willing to do anything to bury a twenty-year-old secret. After her husband's sudden death, Alyssa Archer scrimped and saved to purchase the abandoned farmhouse on the prettiest hill in McKenzie Cove, but someone wants her off the land. If she won’t leave, she’ll die. Rollo MacKenzie might have stolen her heart years ago, but this...

Alligator conservationist Coco LeBlanc knew real fear when she found a body in the clutches of her beloved beasts. Fear turned to horror when she saw that it was one of the Trahan clan—and he'd been shot in the back. Her ex-boyfriend, Luc Trahan, had dumped Coco two years ago when she refused to give up her family's centuries-old voodoo traditions, and he didn't know about her newfound faith. Now, as they and their families become prime suspects in the grisly crime, they'll have to work together to clear their names before the Cajun killer strikes again.

A successful fitness retreat owner. An energetic businesswoman frightened for her life. Can Vance keep Daphne safe or will her stalker find her in her new sanctuary? Daphne Belle has worked hard to open her own gym and use her corny jokes to build a following online. When a former boyfriend pursues her relentlessly, she escapes to Jade Valley and the protective sanctuary of Vance Gem’s exclusive fitness retreat. She had no idea that Vance’s strong arms would be a sanctuary all their own or that her high school hero might become the man she can trust to protect and love her. Vance Gem ...

Coast Guard rescue pilot Enzo MacKenzie puts his life on the line every day, but when his commanding officer persuades him to take part in an undercover drug sting, he quickly realizes this new assignment is going to be everything he hates: deception, greed and deceit. Not his jam. Neither is his reluctant partner, DEA agent Sarah Walker. She’s bossy, bristly and annoyingly overconfident. A loner’s loner, she’s unwilling to share info or plans. When their interagency op goes bust, Enzo and Sarah are forced to flee—not from the drug cartel they’re trying to destroy— but from ...

Jason is not the kind of guy you'd want to take home to mom. He’s foul tempered, a bit of a womanizer and has a conscience that has been collecting dust for years. All that is shaken up though, when he unearths a package of carefully preserved love letters and a portrait while diving off the coast of Africa. So many unanswered questions, the letters snag something inside of him. Intrigued despite himself, he begins to unravel the mystery caught up in pages. He finds himself tangled up in the life of a girl he’s never met... a girl who is in desperate trouble. 'Then you will know the ...

Ryder Langston retires from commercial fishing and manages Blake Sloan's supply stores. When the owner of the inn in Cranberry Cove hires a new executive chef, Ryder is intrigued by the tall woman with ebony hair who hides a dark family secret. Juliette Duplay must flee from her French roots and her past when a family member turns against her. She'd like to blend into the American culture but can't escape danger even in the small community of Cranberry Cove. Can Ryder and Juliette unravel the mystery in time to celebrate Christmas at Cranberry Cove?

Part one in a Christian Regency suspense series with slow-burn romance and a supernatural twist She met him again by shooting him. Unmarried after four Seasons of towering over her dance partners, Miss Phoebe Sauber learns she will be cast out of her home when her father remarries. Feeling betrayed by her father and God, she misfires an arrow at an archery tournament. But the arrow pierces a paper held by Mr. Michael Coulton-Jones. And strangely, the symbol drawn on the page is eerily familiar to her. He met her again while searching for a killer. Michael had quit his work as a spy for the ...

Once a thief, always a thief? One night, the past catches up with former model (not to mention former thief) Jan Hutchinson. When she stumbles on what she believes is her friend’s bleeding body, Jan nearly follows that fate. To stay alive and find out why members of her old crew (think runaways, not runways) disappear one by one, she needs the help of the only policeman she trusts—her ex-boyfriend, Luis Powers. The issue is, Luis Powers doesn’t know whether he trusts her after she broke his heart. But, with danger surrounding them, they must figure out how to survive—together, not ...