Inspirational Suspense

Her eyes reflect fear, but looks can be deceiving. From the moment high-school principal, Judd Trudeau, sees the fear-filled eyes of the beautiful woman in Acadia Park, he knows he must tread lightly. If he wants to get close, Judd must gain her trust. But those deer-in-the-headlights eyes remain, and his need to protect her trumps his better judgment. She’s running from something. The more he learns about Selah Brighton, the more he realizes looks can be deceiving. Selah Brighton has reason to be wary, which is why she chose to hide in Bar Harbor, Maine. The fewer people who know her ...

Gideon never stopped loving his princess, though life tore them apart. When danger threatens, Gideon is the only one who can protect Alessandra. Isolation means safety, but not for Gideon’s heart…

Don't miss the out on getting a little more intimate with the Adair boys. Gwen & Liam's story will leave you wanting more! With the demons of her past resurfacing, Gwyneth is forced to start over. At 21 she moves to a small town on the west coast, but when her heart leads her into the arms of Detective Liam Adair, she's faced with many questions about her past—a past she was made to run from. Will Liam's inquisitive nature cause an irreparable distance between them? Will his new case unknowingly open up what Gwen has been hiding? Lastly, will she survive the impending arrival of the one ...

Torturous nights spent alone, worrying about her undercover detective husband’s whereabouts. Resenting his constant companion—danger—and the thousands of unanswered phone calls and texts. And then that dreaded call, the one she knew would come eventually. After his tragic death, Avery Derose doesn’t want any part of that life anymore and opens The Favor, a shelter for troubled and hurting teens. Among her first guests? A frightened runaway and…Deputy US Marshal Trent Burdine, a man who challenges her vow never to love another lawman. Some days Trent Burdine doesn’t like his job....

Autumn Breeze is the winner of the prestigious San Diego Book Awards for best romance novel of the year. SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 On the morning of 9/11, a fourteen-year-old genius’s mother disappears. Her beloved father had been murdered years before. She’s now without parents. She resolves to get a new mom and dad and have them adopt her before she is deported to Trinidad. For her new mom, she selects her BFF (best friend forever), a New York City detective. For her new dad, she selects the handsome spy investigating her BFF. The investigation was the girl’s fault. She had predicted the ...

Sally Rose McFarlane follows her dream of being a teacher when she accepts a position as governess in post-Reconstruction, Florida. A misunderstanding of her previous experience in Ohio forces her to keep a secret to retain her job. When she learns about the recent Jim Crow laws, she realizes she also has to hide her bi-racial ancestry. When Bryce Hernandez, former Pinkerton agent, becomes a law partner to Sally Rose’s employer, he and Sally Rose become involved with each other to stop a smuggling operation involving their employer’s dishonest business partner. What will happen when the...

Grace is about to get real. You've read about all the Slade brothers... but what about the one you've grown to... uh hate? When it comes to enemies, West has them in spades, but his worst enemy is himself. And if despising all his past mistakes was a competition, he'd win that too. He blames himself fully for what happened to his momma, but could running his boss's shady multi-trillion dollar empire be a new low? If so, Nashville's most notorious bad boy has just hit rock bottom. Enter Lauren Garcia--a goody two-shoes, bible toting daughter of a pastor. And if that wasn't sickening enough, ...

Naomi King, soft spoken, loyal, and easily overlooked, has a gift. She sees what others can't see. Intuition, she calls it. Others in Stoney Ridge don't know what to make of it and dismiss her hunches and inklings altogether. When a young woman arrives at the Inn at Eagle Hill with a shocking secret about Tobe Schrock, Naomi fears the worst. She can't ignore the feeling that something sinister is at work - something more than a threat to the tenuous love begun between her and Tobe.

Sandy King, a twenty-four-year-old Christian and daughter to an up-and-coming senator, interns at Green Growers International. She discovers that one of their partners, Blue Mill Farms, is an elaborate cover for a Mexican cartel to run drugs and smuggle people across the border to the farm in the San Juan Valley of Colorado. Fearing for her life, Sandy escapes with crucial evidence to the one place she feels safe: Camp Genesis, a small Bible camp in the mountains west of Denver. Through a series of connected events, she teams up with DEA agent Luke Shepherd to break up the ring and bring ...

In a world scorched by ruin, where faith is rare and mercy rarer, Eden walks the wasteland with nothing but a prayer on her lips and fire in her soul. She rescues the broken, buries the dead, and listens for the quiet voice that still speaks in the dark. When she finds a wounded stranger bleeding out in a graveyard, she doesn’t flinch—she prays. Silas Ward is a soldier with blood on his hands and no reason to believe he deserves saving. But Eden doesn’t ask if he’s worth it. She just stays. What begins as a fragile alliance in the ashes becomes something holy—fierce devotion ...

A plot to terrorize a race is overheard. A famous detective is murdered. A centuries old society – dedicated to restoring the Hawaiian monarchy in the name of King Kamehameha – comes to light. This tale of intrigue and murder is solved by the detective left in charge of the world-renowned Williams Agency, Nadine Debenheim. As she travels from Houston to Waimea she soon realizes all is not as it seems and not everyone is who they say they are.

A betrayal...a secret baby….an unknown imposter…will Tess survive the wagon train journey to Sunset Hills, Oregon after her life is threatened? And if so, what will she do once she gets there? 1855. Tess Findlay can’t wait to be reunited with her beau who went out west three months ago to mine for gold, saying he’d send for her soon. Even though she hasn’t heard from him, she’s discovered she’s with child and decides to join a wagon train to travel to Oregon to surprise him with the news. When a band of robbers holds up the caravan, Tess is shocked to recognize her beau as one...

Things get complicated when your teenage crush is now running your family ranch and suddenly you’re his boss. Paige fought to get her Montana ranch back. Now that she’s won the court case, she’s spending the summer at the ranch to fix it up and sell it. She and her sisters need the money. It’s heartbreaking, but it has to be done. Jake has been around since before her father died and he has dreams of owning a ranch just like Twisted Rivers. If he could only raise enough money to afford this one now that it would be for sale, his dream would become reality. When Paige shows up, he ...

Undercover operative Jason Wright and his partner Kamal were left for dead in Iran---casualties of a war on terror. But Jason survived and he’s out for revenge. He’s selling his country’s secrets to the highest bidder and he doesn’t care who gets it---as long as he gets paid and Kamal’s death is avenged. Andrew Blythe, a Canadian CSIS agent, races against time to stop the information exchange, knowing that a dangerous terrorist organization will use it to gain control of the Baku oil leases in the Caspian Sea. With those leases, they will be able to finance a weapon of mass ...

She signs up for the money to pay off her student loan, but she finds adventure and love... When Cassandra Griffin is hired as a nanny for James and Malinka Carter, she has no idea what she’s walking into. Will she find love where she least expects it? Cassandra Griffin: The moment I walk into the Carter household, I feel bad for all of them. Even with billions of dollars in assets, they lived lives of pain filled with jealousy, regret, and anger. At first, I take the job as a means to pay off my student loan debt early, but then I meet Josh and Josie Carter. They capture my heart and ...

She has everything she ever wanted… except the one thing her heart truly desires. After a devastating loss, Chassidy’s perfect life feels anything but. Her marriage to Bryce, once full of passion, is now weighed down by guilt and resentment. Every day, she drifts further from the woman she used to be—and further from the man she once loved. But then her new neighbor moves in. He’s charming, magnetic, and awakens a fire in Chassidy she hasn’t felt in months. He makes her feel alive again. Determined to resist the dangerous pull of temptation, she focuses on repairing her marriage, ...

What if someone else’s past is coming back to haunt you? Things at the Silver Beach Cottage are not going exactly as Tessa had planned. Inheriting didn’t just mean an unexpected and sorely needed windfall; it also meant inheriting a complicated mystery surrounding the old cottage and David’s death. At first, it seemed as though the handsome construction worker and best friend to the deceased, Chris, was trying to distance himself as far away from the drama of the accident as possible. But is Chris more involved in David’s double life than he let on? Tessa feels an undeniable ...

Struggling to succeed in the Nashville music scene, talented singer/songwriter Parker James finds the competition fierce...even deadly. A young womans murder, industry corruption, and a menacing stalker draw Parker into danger and intrigue. Nothing is as it appears, and unraveling the truth challenges everything Parker believes about her talent, her future, and her faith.

Royalty...it was more than just a word to her. It was her life. But not for long. Marlie loved her family dearly, even when she didn’t like them very much. But their life wasn’t the life she wanted for herself. Maggie had always fulfilled her responsibilities, she’d always done exactly as she was expected to...she knew no other way. Until now...until after reading a letter from her father suggesting she visit her niece and learn how to do as she pleased every once in a while, including the joy of eating pizza at her slightest whim. The last thing Maggie expected when she showed up at ...

When a hairstylist finds the dead body of a girl in a small Southern town, she’s thrown into a world of secrets and lies ***This is a 51,000 word Novella*** Savannah Jefferies is used to good gossip. Owner of the Teasen & Pleasen Hair Salon in the heart of Louisiana, she’s used to big hair, Southern style, and tall tales of the latest town scandal. But her quiet life is turned on its head when Savannah finds an upstanding member of the community murdered outside her salon in cold blood. Savannah investigates, only to find that her pleasant, cute town is just a façade, and that ...