Inspirational Suspense Romance

Three years since my husband’s death and it still doesn’t get any easier. A brand new start is what I needed, not only for me but also for the kids. I decided to return to my hometown, Brookings, Oregon, where I have a lot of fond memories, especially with my high school best friend, May. I got it all planned out. I just didn’t know HE would also be there.

She sets a thief to catch a thief. Will he also steal her heart? Private investigator Helen Hu must team up with reformed art thief Reuben Costa to rescue her mother, who has vanished while trying to make amends for stealing some bejeweled eggs connected to the Amber Room. Set in Greece and Italy, Once a Thief is Book 1 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson’s Protector Sweethearts Christian romantic suspense series of books that showcase Private Investigator Helen Hu, her associates, and friends. This collection is a spinoff of Jan’s Savannah Sweethearts beach romance and ...

For the Kilpatrick family of Cranberry Bay, the choice was really very simple. Their family had been torn apart by a heartbreaking tragedy…now they were coming together again determined that nothing else would.A recent tragedy reminds the Kilpatrick family what they have always known…that no matter how dark the future may look, family is everything…especially when so much of what was always taken for granted can be ripped away in a stolen moment. Marcus Kilpatrick and his adult children are learning that some of life’s greatest challenges are not always about the big choices or the ...

When both your physical safety and your heart are threatened, which one do you protect? Belle Cosgrove is incredibly frustrated. Four years after the death of her young husband, she’s finally managed to box up her grief and guilt and move on, having convinced herself she neither wants nor deserves another relationship. But now when her massage clinic is thriving, she’s just adopted a dog, and the future is looking bright, her newfound peace is threatened by disturbing notes and gifts from an anonymous stalker. Huckleberry Ridge police corporal, Woody Bannock, has decided it’s much ...

A forced betrothal, a missing chambermaid, and two unlikely allies whose lives merge in a forbidden entanglement of the heart. Emmeline is to be married to a heartless brute of a man—sold off like a pig at auction, nothing more than a pawn to secure her father’s business dealings. When the handsome Elias Compton arrives at the hotel under the guise of seeking employment, she is instantly smitten. Elias has come to The Balfour Hotel undercover. His real mission is to search for a missing woman who was last seen working as a chambermaid at the hotel. Has she met with foul play? Does the ...

Royalty...it was more than just a word to her. It was her life. But not for long. Marlie loved her family dearly, even when she didn’t like them very much. But their life wasn’t the life she wanted for herself. Maggie had always fulfilled her responsibilities, she’d always done exactly as she was expected to...she knew no other way. Until now...until after reading a letter from her father suggesting she visit her niece and learn how to do as she pleased every once in a while, including the joy of eating pizza at her slightest whim. The last thing Maggie expected when she showed up at ...

PERFECTION. A CLASSIC, ALL-AMERICAN, ENCHANTING LOVE STORY. -Southern Belle Book Blog An authentically playful and heartfelt story about young love and second chances in a Midwestern small town, perfect for YA romance fans. They say in every guy’s life there’s a girl he’ll never forget and a summer where it all began. Well, for me, 1999 is that summer, and Brooke Sommerfield is that girl. But that was nearly nine years ago. And what they don’t tell you is that you’ll blink, and both the summer and the girl will be gone. I have no idea where Brooke ended up. She disappeared that ...

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 ...

Unlike her relatives, who either joined the lucrative jewelry business or became thieves, rookie cop Ava Davis chose public service. Sent undercover on her first assignment to catch a notorious thief expected at the hotel in Christmas Tyme, Colorado, Ava intends to prove the police didn't make a mistake by hiring her. With her family history looming over her, she doesn't have time to reconnect with her childhood friend and first crush, Gabriel Lark. After being wrongfully accused, former cop Gabriel wants nothing to do with the police and longs for restful holidays. But when a series of ...

Paula Freda, writing as Marianne Dora Rose, presents yet another Contemporary, Clean and Wholesome, Inspirational Suspense Romance for Hearts of All Ages. - Excerpt: It was perhaps ordained that Sister Anne of Our Lady, Mother of Jesus, Foundling Home should be the nun passing by the baby hatch door. Only three days ago, on Christmas Eve, a boy, barely a week old, had been left inside the hatch, sleeping quietly, wrapped in a small striped blue and white blanket, like the ones often seen in maternity wards. A sticky pad note on his blue onesie held only four words. Saint Expeditus protect ...

It was supposed to be just another day at work for a local newspaper reporter, Stella Holt. She had always loved her job, and believed she was good at it. Until one day when she was sent to interview the author of a worldwide bestseller who had made so many women fall in love with him. James Collins is not just a word-painter. His every work is a masterpiece, a perfect blend of mystery and mind-blowing romance. Only in his own life, there is no place for romance. He knows everything about women, starting from what they like most, and to the ways to seduce them with only a glance. But ...

A novella in the Sonoma series After opening his heart to Jesus in prison, Alex Villa has left his criminal past behind him. However, his efforts to take down a gang producing meth in Sonoma have made him a target. Set up to look like he’s being bribed by the gang, the police blame him for the death of a cop. Only the evidence on an encrypted laptop can prove he’s innocent. Software engineer Jane Lawton has been betrayed by the men closest to her, including a God she thought would protect her. She won’t let Alex down, because she knows what it feels like to be disbelieved and ...

A charismatic Oracle who promises miracles But only if you’re willing to donate money A naïve young man who wants to belong to something And is ready to donate his hard-earned money Convincing someone who’s drinking the “Kool-Aid” that they’re being taken advantage of can be difficult, but that’s Holly’s challenge when her friend, Levi, falls under the Oracle’s spell. Holly confronts the Oracle only to find that Levi doesn’t want her help. It never occurs to Holly that her “help” may not only result in her death, but those of her loved ones as well. If you liked Nancy...

Once you've been betrayed, trusting again is the scariest gamble of all. Becca Pierson takes her vows seriously. So even when her husband's secret gambling addiction shakes her world, she soldiers on, sure they can work things out. But reality soon proves otherwise, and she decides she must put their 10-year-old son David first and file for divorce. When a loan shark barges into her apartment and demands the little cash she has left, she takes David and flees 400 miles across Montana to the only place that will shelter them--Ragin' Moon Refuge. Tony Lascari's family owns Ragin' Moon, and he...

Heartfelt. Beautiful. Tearful. Surprising. Mysterious. Eternal. You NEED to read this story. -Heartbeats Between Words A twist you won’t see coming. Part love story. Part mystery. A heartrending tale about love, family and secrets. One moment. One moment can shape our entire life. That’s all it takes. It was in one moment that I knew he knew. It was just a hunch, a feeling, a soft whisper to my soul. But it was in that life-altering instant that I knew I had lost him. When Omaha native Ashley Westcott suddenly shows up in Remington Jude’s small, Missouri town, she’s the talk of the ...

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?

The lonely person becomes weak first and strongest alone at the end. Reshma lies in between both. Recently she did break up with his boyfriend Arjun and was trying to overcome with it. She feared being alone in life and a day came in her life which changed everything over night. What if a criminal is giving threat to another criminal, demanding justice? Is revenge necessary? It’s good to care for the memories of people who love us unconditionally, but we can’t love people blindly because there’s a difference between mistakes and crime. From the author of She and The Power of Nothing, ...

As Lucas casually scanned the colorful televisions on his quest for an upgraded model, he noticed a bloody hand under the stereos. If Lucas was six, and the man’s body was in the woods, he would poke it with a stick. But Lucas wasn’t six, and he didn’t have a stick. Instead, he gently touched the man’s hand and squeezed it. It felt warm and a little clammy. Too warm for a corpse. As much as Lucas wanted to leave and never look back, he couldn’t. The echo of his late mother reverberated in his mind. Always be kind. Always be helpful. So, against Lucas’ better judgment, he helped ...

Hollywood 1942. When attorney Audra Schaeffer's sister disappears, Audra flies to Hollywood to find her but instead must identify her body. Determined to bring the killer to justice, Audra takes a job with the second Hollywood Victory Caravan. Together with Robert Garfield and other stars, she crisscrosses the southern United States in a campaign to sell war bonds. When two other women are found dead on the train, Audra knows the deaths are tied to that of her sister. Could the killer be the man with whom she's falling in love?

A wedding celebration destroyed. A brother missing. A family under fire. Welcome back to Melody Harbor, where the waves may be calm, but secrets churn just beneath the surface. Sophie Martin thought her wedding day would mark a new beginning. Instead, it became the start of a nightmare. Her family’s beloved bed-and-breakfast burns to the ground during the ceremony. Her brother, Liam, disappears. And the quiet Alabama town they call home begins to whisper accusations no one saw coming. When Liam is arrested and charged with arson, theft, and drug trafficking, the Martin family is thrust ...