Inspirational Suspense Fiction

Second chances ... and the secrets that sabotage them. CeCe Bixby's life is in flux. After being abandoned by her husband six years earlier she's managed to cope by focusing on her work as a reporter and on being a good mom to her young son. When her name is leaked in connection with a dangerously controversial story, a fresh start in small town Huckleberry Ridge, Idaho feels safe ... until she meets her new landlord, a handsome widower who just may wield the key to her tightly sealed heart. Shane Wickham is shackled with regret. Ever since playing an unintentional role in his wife's death,...

In the first installment of the Bowman Case Files, bored and entitled university student Julia Strauss meets a captivating man during a random encounter at a cafe. She is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger and pursues him obsessively. What she doesn’t know is that behind all the charm, he has a secret agenda of his own. Can Julia see beyond the haze of her infatuation before it’s too late?

After colliding with a fleeing thief and having her home invaded, Erin Stuart is determined to help the security guard/undercover DEA agent stop the flow of drugs being trafficked through the mall where her optometry clinic is located. Miles Jarrett finds Erin’s insights valuable, but his growing feelings for her threaten his heart. As clues lead to multiple suspects, can they reveal the drug kingpin—and live to tell the story?

L'aiguille creuse d'Étretat, les tours blanches de l'abbaye de Jumièges, le vieux phare de Tancarville... Autant de lieux mystérieux explorés par Arsène Lupin dans de fascinants jeux de piste, au cœur du fameux triangle d'or cauchois imaginé par Maurice Leblanc. Imaginé ? Est-ce si sûr ? Et si les aventures du gentleman cambrioleur dissimulaient un code ? La clé d'un trésor normand ? Le professeur Roland Bergton en est convaincu.

Villanelle (um codinome, é claro) é uma das assassinas mais habilidosas do mundo. Uma psicopata hedonista, que ama sua vida de luxo acima de quase qualquer coisa... menos a emoção da caçada. Especializada em matar as pessoas mais ricas e poderosas do mundo, Villanelle é encarregada de aniquilar um influente político russo, e acaba com uma inimiga determinada em seu encalço.

When a hairstylist finds the dead body of a girl in a small Southern town, she’s thrown into a world of secrets and lies ***This is a 51,000 word Novella*** Savannah Jefferies is used to good gossip. Owner of the Teasen & Pleasen Hair Salon in the heart of Louisiana, she’s used to big hair, Southern style, and tall tales of the latest town scandal. But her quiet life is turned on its head when Savannah finds an upstanding member of the community murdered outside her salon in cold blood. Savannah investigates, only to find that her pleasant, cute town is just a façade, and that ...

Can a hometown with a harmful past actually try to kill you? In this rural town in Pennsylvania, quiet trouble lingers everywhere. Just when you think you have a handle on things, the twists and turns keep on coming. Nora Lawrence, a single mother of two, returned to her hometown to visit a relative in the hospital. But when she and her kids get held up at gunpoint, she starts to think that there is more going on in this town than she could have ever thought. Dealing with the emotional damage of almost getting shot, and having to also see her toxic family, Nora starts to become unwound. But...

This hometown with harmful memories just became more dangerous, and more deadly. Sure, it’s quiet and rural here. But that doesn’t mean all is well. A harsh past lives quietly, whispering through the town, and a new threat has just arrived. Nora Lawrence is a busy single mom of two. Working two jobs has completely absorbed her life, which helps her run away from her troubled past. But, when she gets a call that a relative is in the hospital, she has to make the decision: go back to her toxic hometown, or keep herself separated from the harm? Returning home brings back all the memories ...

Lady Caroline had always been aware that her dearest friend, Lady Harriet’s twin brothers, Lord Dundee and Lord Erasmus, were handsome, but seeing them for the first time in years when she visits their father’s state for the summer, left her feeling overwhelmed. Even more so when Lord Dundee pays her more attention than usual. Lady Caroline knows of his reputation as a rake, but is drawn in by his charms. Lord Erasmus had admired and adored Lady Caroline from afar for a very long time, and is furious when she leaves her intellectual ways for frivolous shenanigans with Lord Dundee, but ...

Tina West has spent her life feeling like she stood on the outside, but since taking a job at Stryker Security, life seems to be turning for the better. Tina never imagined when she took a job as a nanny she’d end up training for search and rescue. Yet, when her boss shows up with a retired military dog and the opportunity to train with him, Tina snatches up the chance to help those who are lost.

Paper can be torn and dolls can break. So can humans. Kite Tanner, a widow, struggles with the sudden loss of her husband. Priscilla Martin, the minister’s daughter, pursues money and men with passion. Lydia Dooley, a prayer-warrior, battles a brain tumor and a daughter who can’t forget the sins of her mother’s past. Eve Stanton, a talented Christian singer and songwriter, is brought to her knees when the truth about her marriage is revealed. Mary Rabin, kidnapped from her front yard at the age of eight, returns forty years later to reunite with the family and friends she’d fought ...

Torturous nights spent alone, worrying about her undercover detective husband’s whereabouts. Resenting his constant companion—danger—and the thousands of unanswered phone calls and texts. And then that dreaded call, the one she knew would come eventually. After his tragic death, Avery Derose doesn’t want any part of that life anymore and opens The Favor, a shelter for troubled and hurting teens. Among her first guests? A frightened runaway and…Deputy US Marshal Trent Burdine, a man who challenges her vow never to love another lawman. Some days Trent Burdine doesn’t like his job....

Wills Mason is loved by everyone except Claire Rayner who cannot forgive him for his and her sister's unmerciful, youthful teasing. But now, grown up and serving as a civilian spy, Wills must prove that Claire is not willingly relaying messages to the enemy, as his colonel believes, even when all evidence points that way. Can he prove he's changed and can be trusted to cherish her heart as she deserves to be loved? From childhood up, Claire Anne Rayner has despised the man who's like a brother and son to the rest of the Rayner House residents. But when she puts her musical training on hold ...

Both rebels in their own way, Josie and Jerry Patterson must figure out how to keep the other's love...and keep the German enemy at bay. She has two loves—her skating and Jerry, her husband. But when he returns home looking like a skeleton trying to return to life, she’s scared. What happened in Germany to change a man so much? Has another woman captured his heart? Jerry has vowed to let Josie live her own glamorous life...especially after what happened in Germany. But when his wife's life is threatened, Jerry realizes he can’t stand by and do nothing. Jerry has to risk all for the ...

Was she her sister’s keeper? Leah was all the family Brynn Kingston had left, and she’d made that promise to her mother before she passed away to take care of her little sister. But when she learned Leah was engaged to a man she’d met online—a man who probably didn’t exist at least in the form he presented online—Brynn knew she had to expose the scammer before her sister’s small nest egg was gone. But then she met the scammer face-to-face. Best-laid plans. Was he his brother’s keeper? Although Ben Fisher had been shunned by his community and his parents, he stayed as close ...

Mohira's dream of leaving Central Asia for the magic of America finally comes true when she meets a man in the Peace Corps who sweeps her off her feet. But the dream doesn't live up to the reality and, when she finds divorce papers on her pillow, her world falls apart. Now she struggles to find a sense of belonging, as a foreign woman in America with no friends or family around. She's not even sure her family will accept her if she gives up and returns to them, considering their traditional Muslim beliefs about divorce. In the midst of her journey of discovering who she is and reevaluating ...

One man committed to serving God and country. One woman committed to bringing slavery to an end. Captain Andrew Browning’s new assignment is to head up security at the Lincoln White House. A Virginian and a longtime friend of Robert E. Lee, he must decide whether to resign from the Union Army. His long-time fiancée is a beautiful Southern belle whose father runs a plantation with slaves who were Andrew’s childhood friends. His choices will also affect his family: his blacksmith father, mother, and twin sisters. Maggie Strickland’s mission is to bring a petition from Massachusetts ...

A Romantic Mystery The teacher had apparently walked in on a robbery and been killed in his classroom Resource Officer Lanell Rhodes is determined to see justice for the young man. Pilot Connor Prescott is shocked to learn of the death of the young teacher his sister has been dating. But when he arrives at the school and seeks information, he is warned by the attractive Resource Officer that he is not to meddle in police business. Lanell and Connor share a common goal of finding justice for the victim, but can they overcome their differences and share a future together as well?

Shrouded in mystery, a precious relic known as Il Testamento, or The Proof, circulated among the early Christians for centuries. Before their deaths, its guardians hid it from their adversaries, leaving only a crude map of its location. For centuries, it lay in darkness. Until now. Reports of its existence have resurfaced, inciting an ancient rivalry between a ruthless group that seeks to destroy it, and a secret association that lusts for its power.

A recent broken engagement leaves Ava Howard in a rut, looking for meaning and purpose in her life. Enter a stranger with a ready grin, who says that his name is Micah and claims to have known Ava's ex back in high school. Micah is currently "in between" jobs, and Ava feels led to offer him work doing odd jobs around her home. Little does she know that her simple act of kindness will challenge her faith, threaten the lives of the people she loves, and have her running for her life.