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Christian Fiction May 2025 |
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| Welcome to the Honey B&B by Melody CarlsonWith 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. |
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| Whispers of Fortune by Mary ConnealyIn 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. |
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The Season of You & Me
by Robin Constantine
After a humiliating breakup, Cassidy decides to spend the summer working as a camp counselor at the Jersey Shore, where she meets Bryan, a boy who has recently become paralyzed and is trying to adjust to his new life.
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Sunrise Reef
by Irene Hannon
After finding home in Hope Harbor, Bren Ryan is missing just one thing in her life: romance. But that's okay. Buttoned-up Noah Ward isn't looking for love either when he arrives in town-certainly not with free-spirited Bren. When the two are pulled together, they learn that sometimes you must look past the surface to find the treasure beneath.
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A Wager with the Matchmaker
by Jody Hedlund
Kiernan Shanahan is intent on securing his name and fortune free of his father's shadow. But when he finds a position for Alannah Darragh in his household to keep her safe from a dangerous family situation, the sparks that fly between them are only the start of a wily matchmaker's scheme...no matter how much both fight it.
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| The Filling Station by Vanessa MillerIn Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street area, high school senior Evelyn plans to study fashion in New York while her sister, new college graduate Margaret, is going to teach at a local school. But the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroys their neighborhood and their sense of safety. Finding refuge at a local filling station, they struggle with their faith and look for answers in this "novel that should be required reading" (Library Journal). |
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| An Overdue Match by Sarah MonzonAfter 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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| The Long March Home by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca LeeIn 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. |
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| The Italian Ballerina by Kristy CambronIn 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. |
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| The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lynn GreenOutspoken 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 SundinFleeing 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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