Christian Fiction
July 2025
Recent Releases
The Beijing Betrayal
by Joel C. Rosenberg

In the pulse-pounding final installment of the Marcus Ryker series, the leaders of Communist China are secretly plotting to invade Taiwan and challenge American supremacy in the Pacific. Can Ryker and his team of elite operatives stop a secret plot to unleash the most devastating sneak attack on the U.S. and her allies in history before millions of Americans die?
The Keeper
by Charles Martin

Reeling from the loss of his mentor Bones, Murphy Shepherd must lead a desperate global mission to rescue the kidnapped daughters of his friend, the vice president, while battling a dark trafficking network tied to sinister political ambitions.
Fragile Designs
by Colleen Coble

After her police officer husband's mysterious murder, Carly Harris discovers what she believes to be a real Fabergé egg hidden in the walls of her family's house and recruits a homicide detective and neighbor to investigate.
The Summer of You and Me
by Denise Hunter

Five 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.
This Promised Land
by Cathy Gohlke

After 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.
Sunrise Reef
by Irene Hannon

Bren 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.
The Summer of Yes
by Courtney Walsh

This wasn’t how Kelsey Worthington’s day was supposed to go. She certainly wasn’t supposed to wake up in a hospital room next to Georgina Tate—the legendary matriarch of New York City businesswomen. With Georgina as her companion, Kelsey soon finds herself doing things she’s never done before. Eating street food. Swimming in the ocean. Matchmaking for Georgina with the help of Georgina’s handsome son. And writing her own romance—both in book form and in real life.
The Seamstress of Acadie
by Laura Frantz

Caught between the warring French and English on Canada's rugged shores in 1755, Sylvie Galant is forced from her Acadian home and family and is alone in colonial Virginia. Now the enemy soldier who once tore her world apart might be the key to restoring her shattered past.
The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House
by Joanna Davidson Politano

In 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.
Embers in the London Sky
by Sarah Sundin

After fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth--and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined.
All My Secrets
by Lynn N. Austin

New York, 1898. When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Summertime
On a Summer Tide
by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Starring: Camden Grayson, a driven business woman and the adoptive mom of seven-year-old Cooper, the son of her deceased best friend; Seth Walker, the kind-hearted teacher at a small school on a remote island off the coast of Maine.

What happens: Camden's widowed dad gathers his three daughters together and announces that he's bought the summer camp he and their mom worked at years ago -- and everyone in the family finds themselves heading to derelict Camp Kicking Moose on Three Sisters Island.

Series alert: On a Summer Tide begins the entertaining Three Sisters Island trilogy; the final book, At Lighthouse Point, comes out this month.
Beneath the Summer Sun
by Kelly Irvin

It's been four years since Jennie's husband died in a farming accident. Long enough that the elders in her Amish community think it's time to marry again for the sake of her seven children. What they don't know is that grief isn't holding her back from a new relationship. Fear is.
Gathering the Threads
by Cindy Woodsmall

A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Ties that Bind and Fraying at the Edge. After months away in the Englisch world, Ariana Brenneman is overjoyed to be in the Old Order Amish home where she was raised. Yet her excitement is mixed with an unexpected apprehension as she reconciles all she's learned from her biological parents with the uncompromising teachings of her Plain community.
Summer on Sunset Ridge
by Sharlene MacLaren

As tensions between North and South simmer over slavery, Sheriff Clay Dalton's path collides with a plainspoken yet passionate young abolitionist named Rebecca Albright, and the two find themselves propelled on a journey to discover just who God has called them to be, soon realizing that each holds a key to the other's answer.
All Summer Long
by Melody Carlson

Moving to San Francisco to help her aunt transform an old luxury yacht into an upscale floating restaurant, chef Tia D'Amico is reunited with her long-ago crush Leo Parker, the newly hired captain of the yacht, but he is engaged to another until the tides turn in her favor.
Under a Summer Sky
by Melody Carlson

A relaxing summer job in sultry Savannah turns complicated for a young art teacher when two handsome brothers vie for her attention at the same time a snooty rival sabotages her employment. By the award-winning author of Once Upon a Summertime.
The Goodbye Bride
by Denise Hunter

Following a concussion, Lucy Lovett can't remember the last seven months of her life. She doesn't remember leaving her fiancé Zac Callahan weeks before their wedding or moving to Portland, Maine, but she returns to Summer Harbor, vulnerable, homeless and still in love with Zac.
Just a Kiss
by Denise Hunter

Watching the love of his life falling for his brother was enough to send Riley straight to boot camp. But over a year later, he's officially a marine, and Beau and Paige are no longer an item. When Riley's tour in Afghanistan is up, he intends to confess his feelings to Paige and win his best friend's heart once and for all. But that changes when an IED takes the life of a comrade and leaves Riley an amputee. Now he's heading home, injured and troubled.
Summer Brides: A Year of Weddings Novella Collection: Three Novellas
by Marybeth Whalen

The honor of your presence is requested at three summer weddings, in A June Bride by Marybeth Whalen, A July Bride by Beth Wiseman and An August Bride by Debra Clopton.
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