Inspirational Suspense

Eager to heal after losing her husband, security consultant Rachel Evans moves to the small Texas town of Rios Azules. When one of her clients is found murdered under the mistletoe and her rental is broken into, the former thief realizes danger has found her once again. Her neighbor's widowed son volunteers to help her. But as Rachel's attraction to him grows, can she trust him with her heart-or her secret-before someone takes her life? Secrets of Rios Azules series: sweet, wholesome books about faith, love, and murder. Welcome to Rios Azules, a small Texas town where rivers and emotions ...

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous.

A Christian Regency romantic suspense Prequel to the Lady Wynwood’s Spies series Spinster Miranda Belmoore has become a poor relation in her cousin’s house. She determines to escape a life of drudgery and disdain from her own family members, who are embarrassed by her straightforward speech and unconventional behavior that does not match with proper society. She is beginning to believe what they tell her—that she doesn’t matter to anyone, not even to God. Former naval captain Gerard Foremont is having difficulty adjusting to life back on land, bitter that his career has been cut ...

Time is running out. Lives hang in the balance. And someone wants her breakthrough discovery - at any cost. In the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical research, brilliant scientist Astrid Larsen races against time to find a cure for the devastating disease that took her husband. When her groundbreaking research becomes the target of corporate espionage, she's forced to accept protection from Flynn Rexford, a former Special Forces operative with his own desperate stake in her success - his daughter is dying from the same disease. As threats escalate and their professional boundaries blur ...

Welcome to Stellar’s Ford. In the fir-scented tranquility of this rural community, revenge and redemption wage a war of the heart. Will past and present wounds rip apart the fabric of a family and the serenity of a dying way of life? Brad Stanley is Stellar’s Ford born-and-bred. Years ago, his friends left for college and big careers. He stayed behind and ran Greenwood Timber, the family mill. Brad barely gave his solitary life a second thought until the day he discovered a sixteen-year-old daughter he never knew existed. Trying to be a dad while keeping the mill from going belly-up, is...

An unusual woman with no personal identification steps from the woods near John Walker’s cabin by a stream and warns him that he has no right to fish on her husband’s property. After John points to his cabin and insists that this is his property, the bewildered woman retreats back into the trees. Throughout this fictional mystery novel, the actual identity of the woman who claims to be Rebecca Johnson remains in question. She gives various stories regarding her past, and John’s attorney/friend advises him to stay away from her. The wealthy Atlanta businessman, John, finds that he ...

A mob boss attending the nuptials. A groom holding a bloody knife. A reverend lying dead in his office. Who says weddings can’t be fun? When Amy Kate attends the wedding of a close friend, the groom is found hovering over the dead body of the reverend holding a bloody knife. It looks like an open and shut case until the bride convinces Amy Kate that the groom is innocent. As Amy Kate dives deeper into the case, she discovers the guest list for the wedding reads more like the U.S. Marshal’s most wanted files. And Gabe, her handsome detective boyfriend, doesn’t want her anywhere near ...

Some secrets are meant to be kept. Buried. Unfortunately, occasionally they resurface. I’m Liberty Cassell, small town girl, living in Twin Fawn, Indiana. Everybody knows everybody else in this little burg. No secrets. Small town living suits me just fine. As the daughter of a beloved mail carrier and the town librarian, who the whole town depends on, I couldn’t be in a safer space. I work in the local hardware store. Easy work. No stress. Doesn’t pay much, but it provides everything I need. My motto: Live simply. Life is meant to be enjoyed. The only possible downside of small town ...

Amy Kate Anderson is Southern trouble in high heels. A skeleton— The town legend in a coma— A gun pointed at her— She never dreamed a family reunion could be so dangerous! Book shop owner and amateur detective, Amy Kate Anderson, agrees to help her best friend with the upcoming Jacobs’ family reunion, but once a skeleton is discovered on the edge of Cyrus Jacob’s property, the family reunion takes a dark turn, putting Amy Kate in the center of a thirty-year-old murder and on the hunt for a stack of missing letters that might hold the key to it all. Can Amy Kate find the killer and...

SOPHIE O’DAY IS TERRIFIED. A budding young nurse in Post Depression Southeast Missouri, Sophie fears repeating a tragic mistake—at the expense of another life. Sy Hawkins has given up all hope of a career in radio and moved to rural Missouri to care for his aging uncle and tend to the old fellow’s goat farm. Sy’s only focus is on this man to whom he feels he owes everything. When an accident occurs, and Uncle Joe’s life is in jeopardy, the elderly man makes a decision that will affect both Sophie and Sy. Can they pull together in a common quest to make his wish come true before ...

Sandy King, a twenty-four-year-old Christian and daughter to an up-and-coming senator, interns at Green Growers International. She discovers that one of their partners, Blue Mill Farms, is an elaborate cover for a Mexican cartel to run drugs and smuggle people across the border to the farm in the San Juan Valley of Colorado. Fearing for her life, Sandy escapes with crucial evidence to the one place she feels safe: Camp Genesis, a small Bible camp in the mountains west of Denver. Through a series of connected events, she teams up with DEA agent Luke Shepherd to break up the ring and bring ...

Police Chief Tess O’Rourke thought she’d taken care of her small town’s drug problem last year. But now Rogue’s Hollow residents are up in arms over a contentious vote on legalizing the sale of marijuana within city limits. And when an 18-year-old is found dead of a possible overdose, Tess wonders if the local pot farms might be involved and begins to fear that a new, deadlier drug supply chain has cropped up. As tempers flare and emotions boil over, Tess faces the possibility of losing the town’s support.

Lieutenant Ethan Hendricks’ greatest nightmare just also happened to be his grandfather’s newest business venture. Logan Hendricks is thrilled about his brand new detective agency’s first case, but things weren’t turning out the way they were supposed to, including the attempted murder of one of his brand new employees. But he figures their next case, which involves finding a missing sister, should go a lot smoother. How dangerous could it be? Ethan Hendricks wasn’t quite as confident about his grandfather’s new hobby, or that the supposedly straight-forward case of a missing ...

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?

Dana Williams never suspected starting a new life might end with her death. Fleeing a devastating breakup, the aspiring playwright moves to a new neighbourhood. There, her future brightens, as she finds a new job, a cozy apartment, and most exciting of all, an offer to produce her first play. While the world of theatre is mostly make-believe, the people in it are all too human. When disturbing events begin to occur around her, she realizes she is the target of a demented mind. When these events lead to murder, she is forced to question whom among her new friends she can trust. It soon ...

Selena Maldanado is living her dream working as an investigator in a prison. When she stumbles onto a drug ring, and learns her boss is involved, Selena is caught between her superior and the outside supplier. Given an ultimatum, Selena is coerced into planting evidence to save her father from being deported. Racked with guilt and fear, the only place Selena finds peace is in the faith of one of the inmates. Brandon Rollos is an undercover agent posing as an inmate. All evidence points to Selena’s involvement in the illegal activity, but Brandon’s feelings for her make him dig deeper. ...

Long estranged from her genetic scientist mother, artist Anna Knight is stunned at the contents of her mother’s will. Determined to ascertain the source of her wealth, Anna hires tech guru Cullen Kincaid to investigate. Details the guitar-playing Bible-teaching computer expert discovers could drastically alter Anna’s future. When mutual attraction blossoms, can she overcome her feelings of worthlessness? Will Cullen follow his heart without knowing the truth of Anna’s birth?

Advised by a quack doctor in 1915 that her unborn child is at risk for lunacy, a wealthy woman pays a midwife to secretly switch her baby with the newborn daughter of a penniless couple. Twenty-one years later, when the horrifying truth is revealed in a Last Will and Testament, Harper Harrington is forced to swap places with Veezie, the rightful heir. The backwoodsy Veezie wastes no time booting Harper out of palatial Nine Gables. With no funds and nowhere to go, Harper moves into the rundown shanty that Veezie previously called home, in Goose Hollow, Alabama. But Harper soon discovers the ...

Averie is looking forward to her future. Meanwhile her past is looking for her. States away from home, the Shadow Man stalks out of the hotel bathroom and straight toward ASMR artist Averie Stardust. Days later the internet celebrity is found, bleeding in the middle of a lavender field. Just like that, a weekend of relaxing family fun slips away. Finding out who hurt Averie becomes Lydia's main focus. With her friends behind her, she races to find Averie's attacker before they can claim another victim.

Kiki’s Cocoa Café and Cave is a St. Joseph, Michigan staple. Life for Suzette and her mother, Chloe has settled into a predictable routine – until the hubbub begins for the November 2020 elections. A radical group has managed to put a measure on the ballot that is based on false research, and they are determined to plaster campaign posters in Suzette’s café – against her will. Add to that Ben and Hugo’s issues with a series of deaths in Traverse City, Chloe’s mysterious emails from Oliver, a disappearing professor from Michigan State, and Suzette’s life becomes anything but ...