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Christian Fiction July 2025 |
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The Angel of Second Street
by Barbara Tifft Blakey
How can compassion be considered wrong? When life is weighed down by challenges, pillars of enduring hope and love are always waiting to be discovered. Ida Dempsey has grown up in a privileged life of luxury thanks to her aunt and uncle. Although Second Street--where women of ill repute ply their wares--is off limits to respectable citizens, her heart of compassion compels her to frequent the area, hoping to make a difference in their lives. Ida has also befriended Qui Shau, a Chinese woman who keeps house for her family, but friendships between the whites and Chinese are taboo in Eureka. Ida tries to keep secret her forbidden compassion, but someone is watching and will use it against her. When Blaine Prescott meets Ida at a church picnic, his parents warn him away from any relationship with the young lady who has been seen on Second Street in the company of a Chinese woman. But how could such a kindhearted, lovely young woman be anything but good? But when riots break out in Chinatown and Ida disappears, Blaine will do anything to find out where and why she has gone.
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| The Voice We Find by Nicole DeeseAfter their parents die, music producer August Tate becomes the guardian of his Deaf teenage sister but needs more income. He takes on audiobook work and meets voice actress Sophie Wilder, who's back home in California, broke, and desperate to get away from her cold, dysfunctional family. If you're interested in how audiobooks are made, be sure to pick up this sweet 3rd Fog Harbor romance, which also works as a standalone. |
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| The Marriage Pact by Kathleen FullerWhen her parents abruptly send her to Ohio, Daisy Hershberger meets Perry Bontrager, whose mother is set on finding him a wife despite his objections. To stop their parents' interfering, Daisy and Perry pretend they're a couple, but spending time together stirs up real feelings. Anyone who likes faith-filled stories and fake-dating tropes will love this 3rd in the Amish of Marigold novels. |
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| This Promised Land by Cathy GohlkeAfter years of saving her money, 65-year-old widow Ginny, who's been estranged from her family for decades, is moving to England in 1992. But a surprise letter saying she's inherited her family's Virginia Christmas tree farm changes everything, especially when she arrives and finds the place a mess and her Vietnam vet nephew and his three sons with no place to go. Try this next: Katie Powner's The Sowing Season. |
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| Sunrise Reef by Irene HannonBren Ryan's 30th birthday starts with a fire at her rental house and ends with her pepper spraying the son of the elderly man who's letting her stay in his back cottage. In spite of it all, she's ready to embrace this new decade and being single...but romance might find her after all. This charming 11th in the Hope Harbor series will please fans of Debbie Macomber's Rose Harbor novels. |
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| The Summer of You and Me by Denise HunterFive years after her husband's death in combat, single mom Maggie returns to his hometown of Seabrook, North Carolina, to seek closure. But after spotting a man who looks just like her husband, she decides to find him, getting help from her brother-in-law Josh, who's always had feelings for her. With an intriguing mystery and a sweet romance, this charming novel is great for summer reading. |
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Across the Crying Sands by Jane KirkpatrickMarried at sixteen, Mary Gerritse thought she knew everything she wanted--a husband and a family. So why doesn't that satisfy her soul? When the chance comes to take on a treacherous mail route along the Oregon coast, she wonders if this will be the adventure she longs for. Inspired by a true story.
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| The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House by Joanna Davidson PolitanoIn 1901 England, clockmaker Sydney Forrester runs a small shop with the aunt who raised her and is drawn to broken things. When she's told she's inherited the estate of an unknown relative, she heads alone to remote Northumberland, finding a house filled with unusual inventions, two men who also have a claim to the estate, and rumors of murder. A "masterful work," raves Library Journal. |
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