Christian Fiction
September 2025

Recent Releases
Loyally, Luke : a novel
by Pepper Basham

Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible.
Second Chance at Sunshine Inn
by Amy Clipston

Inheriting half of a coastal North Carolina Bed & Breakfast, Everleigh Hartnett is surprised that the co-owner is grumpy Cade Witherspoon, who’d worked for her godmother. Now, he wants to run the B&B, she wants to sell it, and they’re going to need to get better acquainted before anything is solved in this sweet romance. For fans of: Denise Hunter’s A Novel Proposal.
Unshaken
by Shelley Shepard Gray

This fast-paced romantic tale starts with a bang when Stephanie Miller witnesses a gang murder in an Ohio parking lot and is then shot in the arm herself. Rescued by a social worker, Stephanie is taken to a remote Kentucky ranch managed by the social worker’s army veteran brother, who isn’t sure what to make of the young Amish woman he is suddenly tasked with protecting. For fans of: compelling Amish romances that examine grittier topics.
The pharisee's wife
by Janette Oke

Like most young women in ancient Israel, Mary has little control over her own destiny. When Enos, a rising Pharisee, sees her one day in the market--the most beautiful woman he has ever laid eyes on--and determines to make her his wife, Mary's fate is quickly sealed. His exorbitant bride price is the only hope her parents have of escaping abject poverty, but surely the fact that such a devout and esteemed man has chosen a girl of her station must be a sign of blessing. When Mary enters training to become the proper Pharisee's wife, it is as though she has been abandoned in a foreign land, where one misstep could cost her greatly. That feeling only deepens when she discovers Enos is all she feared he might be, treating her merely as a prize he has won-and worse. Then rumors of a miracle-working, traveling Prophet change everything, and Mary and Enos are swept up in events that will challenge all they hold dear and forever alter both their futures.
This Promised Land
by Cathy Gohlke

When she ran away as a young war bride, she was cut off from her family forever . . . or so she believed. Decades later, maybe the only way to move on is to go home. Ginny Pickering Boyden can’t wait for her last day of work, when she’ll be free to pursue a lifelong ambition through a master gardener apprenticeship. But an unexpected letter brings shocking news: Ginny has inherited her family’s Christmas tree farm, a dream she’d long ago given...
Designed With Love
by Tracie Peterson

After her new husband is killed at the church altar by a jilted lover, Emma Johnson heals from her own bullet wound and returns home to Wyoming, accompanied by her brother-in-law Colton. His family wants him to marry Emma to keep control of their dead brother’s wealth, while he wants to because he loves her. This Western romance offers a tip of the hat to the prodigal son story and is the 2nd Hope of Cheyenne novel; the 3rd entry, A Moment to Love, comes out in October.
Deadly revenge
by Patricia Bradley

After returning home to Pearl Springs, Jenna Hart didn't expect her new job as deputy to bring her in contact again with FBI Agent Max Anderson. They team up to stop a killer on a path of revenge--only to have the tables turned on them when the hunted becomes the hunter.
I Think I Was Murdered
by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker

Katrina, a grieving young widow who's lost her executive job at a start-up and moved back home to Northern California, uses an AI chatbot prototype to "talk" to her late husband...and one day it responds "I think I was murdered." Following Katrina and her handsome friend Seb as they investigate, this romantic suspense novel combines timely tech topics with love and faith.
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