Religious Suspense

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...

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 ...

Rest in Brandon Springs is the third, and last, novel of the Brandon Springs series. Ryan Walker’s best friend, Larry, leaves the lucrative world of finance to become a minister who runs a mission for the homeless. Tiffany is a beautiful, but troubled, woman. She takes the fall for the man she loves, a drug dealer with a long record. Not knowing that she was pregnant, she gives birth to a daughter, Brandy, while in prison. After her release, as part of her re-entry into society, she and her daughter are placed in Larry’s mission. Lives become endangered as they become entangled with ...

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?

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 ...

A daunting task, Shaina Gillespie endures the solitude on Cape Lookout to prepare the vintage lighthouse keeper’s house for relocation to the mainland. When ebbing currents force a mishap on her paddleboard, she crosses the inlet to Shackleford Banks where the rescue fills with a herd of wild ponies and one reclusive veterinarian, Judd Pearce. An oceanfront dinner-for-two sparks romantic interest, but Shaina determines to remain unbiased since Judd favors his hometown as a prime relocation site. A dark secret enshrouds his wild pony research and cuts a swath of betrayal between them while...

When Betsy Stevenson signed up for the writer’s conference, she thought she’d see her Houston friends and learn more about the craft of writing. However, rain, canceled flights, and a chance meeting with Dillon McCloud (a mystery writer and keynote speaker) turns her life into a back-to-back adventure. And the mayhem has to include Rose Wilford, Betsy’s bestest friend in all the world. Especially since she ‘happens’ to show up at the writer’s conference, and she isn’t a writer. While she’s there – Rosie invites Dillon to join them on a girl’s trip in her RV. The famous ...

On break from her vendor booth selling bittersweet swags at a craft fair, Lolo Henley accidentally witnesses illegal activity down along Atchison’s waterfront and runs for her life. Ever short of his dream for ordination at St. Benedicts Abbey, gardener Karch Riley rescues Lolo from an unholy search party. As trouble mounts, Karch discovers veiled threats on the adjoining college campus and teams with law enforcement to protect the innocent. Evidence of illegal gun purchases becomes linked with the abbey’s Vicar Copley, Karch’s harsh boss. Trouble deepens when human trafficking ...

After a poverty-stricken childhood, Robert Waller, now a successful businessman and firm believer in Buddhism and reincarnation, is obsessed with the idea of regaining possession of his fortune when he is reborn in his next life. When he finds out his death is imminent, he becomes terrified of repeating those impoverished years and so he devotes the time he has remaining to the task of assuring his comfort in his future life. To that end, he seeks the aid of an old acquaintance, Sir Robert Lorton, a well-known expert in oriental religions, to make a strange request: Waller asks Lorton to ...

Demons never tire. Like the banshees of Irish legend, they cling to John Callahan and fill his heart with wails of despair. No matter how John tries to live an exemplary life, the former IRA killer is haunted by the memories of the horrors he has suffered — and those he has inflicted in return. Not the monastic life, not the vows of the priesthood, not the move from Ireland to New York City has brought him peace. In this second gripping novel in the series by Elizabeth Upton, John Callahan has resigned from the priesthood in the hope of living a simpler life as a professor at New York ...

Set in the nineteenth century, The World Duology (World Odyssey / Fiji: A Novel) follows the fortunes of three young travelers. Their dramatic adventures span sixteen years and see them engage with Native American Indians, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world - from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji. In book one, World Odyssey, ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson, sheltered English missionary Susannah Drake and irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday each follow ...

Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked up and sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael is stunned to discover that his new girlfriend, is connected to Simon’s case. With a madman on their heels, the three adventurers make their way to Istanbul....

Doing the right thing can land you in a whole heap of trouble, or so Natalie Swift discovers on her Florence vacation. When she interferes with the soul collection of a child, she inadvertently opens the gates to Heaven and Hell and finds herself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that she could never have foreseen. Now she is a target for those from the dark side, it seems the only way for her to survive is to form an alliance with the man she has been trying to avoid since everything went so horribly wrong. Drawn in is a thrilling and unsettling adventure for readers with a ...

What’s wrong with Ben? Ben Easter, a 37-year-old, pop-rock phenomenon who loves jazz, has never had a serious relationship. Immersed in the success of his band, he thought the supermodels and party girls he dated would one day develop into something lasting. So far, it’s not happening. He’s on the sidelines of life with no good reason to be. Hannah Patrick was dumped at the altar by her one true love and now she sees all men as the enemy. When their paths cross, sparks fly, but destiny is fickle and friends can’t afford to be too reckless when hearts are at stake. Recklessly Axis is...

She won't be forced into an arranged marriage... But no matter where she goes, he'll use any means to find her... When Julia Ellis overhears her intended's sinister intentions, she decides to do the only thing she can think of to escape and ventures forward to become a mail-order bride in America. Forever impulsive, she sneaks onto the ship of her longtime friend, Philip Reinholt, and disguises herself as a cabin boy. But Philip isn't fooled. When he learns of her plans to become a mail-order bride and that his ship is her secret passage to reach her destination, he's beyond upset with her ...

Jennie McGrady's whirlwind life revolves around one guy: her adorable five-year-old brother, Nick. But when he and a playmate disappear one evening, Jennie's world crashes at her feet. Panic-stricken and racing against time, Jennie begins a frantic journey down a dangerous and shadowy path.

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 ...

Royalty...it was more than just a word to her. It was her life. But not for long. And she's not alone. 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 you’re not sure whom to trust, should you put your trust in strangers? From a small town in Pennsylvania to a bustling city in New York, secrets and danger follow no matter where you look. Nora Lawrence has tried to keep her two kids out of danger since returning back to her hometown. But when she gets held up at gunpoint, and stalked by someone dangerous, she decides it’s time to put her life in her own hands. Leo, a handsome state trooper from Nora’s past, tries to help her. But Nora isn’t good at being taken care of, so she rejects his help. When their past romance ...

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 ...