Christian Fiction
May 2025
Recent Releases
Welcome to the Honey B&B
by Melody Carlson

With multiple narrators, including 60-something Honey, her husband CT, and their artist daughter Jewel, this moving story follows the family as they deal with CT's worsening dementia. To help out, Jewel and her 14-year-old daughter move to Oregon where they work to turn the family farmhouse into a bed-and-breakfast. Read-alikes: Katie Powner's A Flicker of Light; Pat Simmons' Lean On Me.
Every Deadly Suspicion
by Janice Cantore

In Dry Oaks, California, Chief of Police Hanna Keyes has long believed her father, Joe, is a murderer, justly imprisoned. When she’s told he’s dying and is being given compassionate release from prison, she wants nothing to do with him. But taking him in might be Hanna’s one shot at cracking the cold case, so she reluctantly agrees to oversee his care.
Whispers of Fortune
by Mary Connealy

In 1874, recent Harvard Medical School graduate Brody MacKenzie has finally found his missing teen brothers after his widowed dad kicked them out. They're in California at Ellie Hart's ranch that educates and cares for orphans, but Brody's family's long obsession with hidden treasure soon finds them all on a suspenseful adventure. This romantic series starter is followed by Legends of Gold, out in June.
All We Thought We Knew
by Michelle Shocklee

In the midst of pain and loss two women must come face-to-face with their own assumptions about what they thought they knew about themselves and others. What they discover will lead to a far greater appreciation of their own legacies and the love of those dearest to them.
Ambush
by Colleen Coble

Returning to her hometown to heal and unlock the mystery of her parents' murder, Paradise Alden uncovers deadly threats at a wildlife refuge and must also confront her past with Blake Lawson, the man who broke her heart.

First in a new series!
An Overdue Match
by Sarah Monzon

After she develops alopecia and her fiancé breaks up with her, librarian Evangeline Kelly gives up on love for herself and plays matchmaker for library patrons instead. When leather-clad tattoo artist Tai Davis offers inside info on the locals if she'll go on a date with him, she reluctantly agrees. This charming 1st in the Checking Out Love series will please fans of Rebekah Millet's Kate Landry Has a Plan or Denise Hunter's A Novel Proposal.

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Focus on: World War II
The Long March Home
by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee

In 1941, three Alabama friends (including a 16-year-old lying about his age) enlist in the military and are sent to the Philippines for basic training. The Japanese soon invade, leaving the trio fighting to survive the Bataan Death March as flashbacks depict their lives back home. Well-researched and action-packed, The Long March Home has realistic violence, mild profanity, and talk of mature subjects. "Stunning...a must-read literary triumph," raves Booklist.
The Italian Ballerina
by Kristy Cambron

In the present day, a young Italian contacts Delaney Coleman saying he has something belonging to her recently deceased WWII veteran grandfather. Back in 1940s Rome, an English ballerina, American military medics, and a young Jewish orphan are connected to an Italian group that saves Jews using a fictional contagious illness. For fans of: romantic, atmospheric dual-timeline novels based on real events.
The Foxhole Victory Tour
by Amy Lynn Green

Outspoken trumpeter Maggie McCleod and beautiful violinist Catherine Duquette come from very different worlds, but both are relieved to be part of a small USO variety show for their own reasons. An unlikely friendship develops, though neither anticipates the difficult conditions and dangers they'll encounter performing so close to the front lines in 1943 North Africa. Try this next: Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin.

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Embers in the London Sky
by Sarah Sundin

Fleeing the Netherlands after the Germans invade, Aleida Martens' cruel husband, Bas, abandons his three-year-old son, whose right hand didn't form properly, to an English couple to get rid of him. After Bas is killed, Aleida makes it to London in search of her son and gets help from a kind-hearted BBC radio correspondent. Try this next: Cathy Gohlke's The Medallion.

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