I must give fair warning right upfront that this will be a bit of a lengthy post. I love to read more than most anything. Well, except Jesus, but that is a given. So here are some upcoming books that I am most eager to read. There will possibly be more coming, too. I just haven’t heard of them yet. So here goes. I hope you’re looking forward to some or all of these, too.

Tate by Susan  May Warren

He was sent here to kill you, wasn’t he?” Glo’s voice emerged in a whisper of horror.

Tate drew in a breath, and even Knox looked away as Tate nodded.

Oh, she knew it. Apparently, she had a type.

The kind of men who didn’t care what trouble—or death—might be waiting for them. Who turned their face to it and charged ahead.

The kind of men who died for what they believed in.

 The kind of men who would break her heart.

What will it cost this bodyguard to save the woman he loves?

*Susie writes a delightful story! – NYT bestselling author Dee Henderson.*

Susan May Warren is the USA Today best-selling, Christy and RITA award-winning novelist of over 65 novels, including the best-selling Montana Rescue and Montana Fire series.

Bodyguard Tate Marshall, has always been the family troublemaker…

Maybe it’s his propensity to get entangled in other people’s problems. Now, he’s in over his head because he’s desperately in love with the woman he’s tasked to protect, the beautiful Gloria, “Glo” Jackson, daughter of US Senator and presidential hopeful Reba Jackson. A member of the country band, the Yankee Belles, Glo was targeted in a recent terrorist attack designed to deter her mother from running, and Tate will do anything to keep her safe. Even if it means letting her go.

Country music artist Glo Jackson isn’t afraid of trouble…

Stubborn and brave, Glo isn’t about to hide from threats, at least the kind that won’t cost her heart. She’s already paid a terrible price for the war on terror, and she refuses to fall for a man who might die, especially because of her. Better to keep him away, even if it means sacrificing her heart.

But when danger threatens them both, what will they sacrifice to keep each other safe?

As the presidential campaign heats up and the threats deepen, so does the attraction between Tate and Glo. But what will it cost Tate to keep her alive? And what will Glo do to keep from losing another man she loves?

The gripping second installment of the Montana Marshalls series.
Releases July 9.

Amazon: https://buff.ly/2VlBWfF

Fragments of Fear by Carrie Stuart Parks

“A rollercoaster ride with a lovable protagonist and a suspenseful, twisty plot.” —Colleen Coble

Stolen art. A New Mexico archaeological dig. An abandoned dog. And a secret that’s worth killing for.

Evelyn McTavish’s world came crashing down with the suicide of her fiancé. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she receives a call that her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. Except she doesn’t own a dog. The shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine with her name and address makes it hers.

Evelyn recognizes the dog as one owned by archaeologist John Coyote because she was commissioned to draw the two of them. The simple solution is to return the dog to his owner—but she arrives only to discover John’s murdered body.

As Evelyn herself becomes a target, she crosses paths with undercover FBI agent Sawyer Price. The more he gets to know her, the more personally invested he becomes in keeping her safe. Together, they’re desperate to find the links between so many disparate pieces.

And the clock is ticking

Releases July 23.

Vow of Justice by Lynette Eason

Playing dead might just get her killed

FBI Special Agent Lincoln St. John is living his own personal nightmare. When the woman he loves, Allison Radcliffe, is killed, he devotes himself to tracking down the killers and making them pay for their crimes. He expected it to be a challenge. What he never expected was to find Allison very much alive shortly after her “murder.”

As his anger and hurt mix with relief, Linc isn’t sure how he’s supposed to feel. One thing he does know for sure: he and Allison will have to work together to stop a killer before she dies a second time–this time for good.
Releases August 6.

The Killing Tide by Dani Pettrey

When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous crime yet. His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer’s boat, and the direction the clues point to will test Finn and the Guard to their limits.

When investigative reporter–and Finn’s boss’s sister–Gabby Rowley arrives, her unrelenting questions complicate an already volatile situation. Now that she’s back, the tug on Finn’s heart is strong, but with the risks she’s taking for her next big story, he fears she might not live through it.

Thrown together by the heinous crime, Finn and Gabby can’t ignore the sparks or judgments flying between them. But will they be able to see past their preconceptions long enough to track down an elusive killer, or will they become his next mark?
Releases August 6.

You Belong With Me by Tari Faris

Realtor Hannah Thornton has many talents. Unfortunately, selling houses in the town where her family name is practically poison isn’t one of them. When a business tycoon determines to raze historic homes in the small town of Heritage, Michigan, and replace them with a strip mall, Hannah resolves to stop him. She sets about helping Heritage win a restoration grant that will put the town back on the map–and hopefully finally repay the financial debt Hannah’s mother caused the town. But at first no one supports her efforts–not even her best friend, Luke.

Luke Johnson may have grown up in Heritage, but as a foster kid he never truly felt as if he belonged. Now he has a chance to score a job as assistant fire chief and earn his place in the town. But when the interview process and Hannah’s restoration project start unearthing things from his past, Luke must decide if belonging is worth the pain of being honest about who he is–and who he was.
Releases September 3.

One Final Breath by Lynn Huggins Blackburn When investigator Gabriel Chavez had his cover blown by an aggressive reporter, the silver lining was being able to rejoin the dive team. The downside? Dive team captain Anissa Bell–a woman who both fascinates and frustrates him.

Anissa grew up as a missionary kid on the Micronesian island of Yap and always planned to return after college. But she remained stateside, determined to solve the case that haunts her–the murder of her best friend and the disappearance of a three-year-old child.
When Anissa’s fractured past collides with Gabe’s investigation into the tragic shooting death of a teenage boy in Lake Porter, they’ll have to put their complicated history with each other aside in order to uncover the identity of a killer. What they’ll discover is that revenge has no statute of limitations.
Releases September 3.

Diamond in The Rough by Jen Turano

To save her family from financial ruin, Miss Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season in exchange for her grandmother settling a family loan that has unexpectedly come due. Ill-equipped to handle the intricacies of mingling within the New York Four Hundred, Poppy becomes embroiled in one hilarious fiasco after another, doomed to suffer a grand societal failure instead of being deemed the diamond of the first water her grandmother longs for her to become.

Reginald Blackburn, second son of a duke, has been forced to travel to America to help his cousin, Charles Wynn, Earl of Lonsdale, find an American heiress to wed in order to shore up his family estate that is in desperate need of funds. Reginald himself has no interest in finding an heiress to marry, but when Poppy’s grandmother asks him to give etiquette lessons to Poppy, he swiftly discovers he may be in for much more than he bargained for.
Releases September 3.

A Single Light by Tosca Lee

Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they emerged—the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the IV antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs in order to live.

As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery thanks to the promising new vaccine Wynter herself had a hand in creating, but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground?

With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. Aided by an enigmatic mute named Otto, they come face-to-face with a society radically changed by global pandemic, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon once again to help save the nation she no longer recognizes—a place so dark she’s no longer sure it can even survive.

Fast-paced and taut, A Single Light is a breathless thriller of nonstop suspense about the risks of living in a world outside the safe confines of our closely-held beliefs and the relationships and lives that inspire us.
September 17

Strands of Truth By Colleen Coble

Harper Taylor is used to being alone. Her mother passed away in a car accident when she was an infant, she never knew who her father was, and now even the widowed grandmother who raised her is gone. She’s done just fine investing her marine biology degree and her energy into her pen shell business.

The last thing she expects is for the DNA test she took to reveal a likely half-sister. And when she and Annabelle meet, there are striking similarities in their stories. Is it just coincidence that both their mothers died tragically without revealing Harper and Annabelle’s father’s name?

When Harper’s business partner has a stroke, his son Ridge steps in to help. Before long, he’s spending more time with her than the business would dictate . . . and Harper finds she doesn’t mind in the least.

When yet another tragedy strikes close to home, though, Harper and Ridge realize that the secrets of the past can’t stay there. They’ll have to unravel Harper’s past before they can secure their future.

September 19

Recovered Secrets By Jessica Patch

A blank memory. A new life.

But her borrowed time just ran out

Two years after Grace Thackery washed up on a small-town Mississippi riverbank, she has the first clue about the life she doesn’t remember: someone wants her dead. And while search-and-rescue director Hollis Montgomery’s determined to protect her, the secrets of her past are darker than they expected.

Can the bond between Grace and Hollis survive her true identity…and an assassin?
Releases September 1.

Always Look Twice by Elizabeth Goddard

At the advice of her therapist, homicide survivor Harper Reynolds has traded her job as a crime scene photographer for a more peaceful life taking photographs of the natural world. But her hopes for a life surrounded by the serenity of the outdoors are dashed when she inadvertently captures a murder being committed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She flees the scene in fear–and loses the camera.

Former Green Beret Heath McKade is a reserve deputy in an understaffed county who has been called in to protect Harper, a childhood friend he is surprised to see back in the area. When Harper learns that the sheriff’s department can’t find any evidence of the murder she witnessed, she is determined to do what she can to see that justice is done. What neither Harper nor Heath could know is how many explosive secrets from the past will be exposed–or how deeply they will fall for each other.

In this suspenseful page-turner, bestselling author Elizabeth Goddard keeps you on the edge of your seat as you discover that uncommon justice lies just on the other side of fear.

Releases October 1.

Aiming For Love by Mary Connealy

Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world–a world she’s been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls’ secret home, her older sister especially is frightened, but Jo is too interested to stay away.

David’s parents follow soon on his heels, escaping bandits at their ranch. David’s father is wounded and needs shelter. Josephine and her sisters have the only cabin on the mountain. Do they risk stepping into the world to help those in need? Or do they remain separated but safe in the peaks of Hope Mountain?
Releases October 1.

Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently–leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn’t convinced. With the help of private investigator Heather Shields, he sets out to decipher the remaining clue. Except someone doesn’t want them to succeed–and will stop at nothing to keep them from finding the truth.

Releases October 1.

Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock

A gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock.

One father was murdered, and another convicted of his death. All because their children fell in love.

Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado home town. His mother begs him to come to Carlisle now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an injury that he’s forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too.

Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher’s daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna had defied him to sneak out with Nate, the fight between Strickland and Nate’s drunken dad was loud—and very public. Strickland was found murdered later that night, and everyone accused Roy Beckett. When the church burned down, people assumed it was Nate getting even for his father’s conviction. He let the rumors fly and left Carlisle without looking back.

Now, Brenna is stunned to learn that the man convicted of murdering her father has been pardoned. The events of that night set her life on a bad course, and she’s dealing with a brutal custody battle with her ex and his new wife where he’s using lies and his family’s money to sway the judge. She’s barely hanging on, and she’s turned to alcohol to cope. Shame and fear consume her.

As they deal with the present—including new information about that fateful night and a wildfire that’s threatening their town—their past keeps igniting. Nate is the steady force Brenna has so desperately needed.

Releases November 5.

Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

Independent and tenacious journalist Vivian DeMarco is back in Walton, Georgia, for one reason–to do her job and get out. When her boss suddenly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian’s only hope for finding the truth–and the next big story–is small-town law enforcement’s lanky poster boy, Deputy Ryan Frost. But the deeper they dig, the more twisted the truth becomes, and Vivian finds herself fighting for not only answers but also her life. False leads, incriminating emails, and someone called The Watcher force Vivian to confront the secret of her past and decide: How much is she willing to risk for the sake of a headline?

Author Natalie Walters welcomes you back to Walton, Georgia, where everyone knows your name–but no one knows your secret.

Releases November 5.

Seconds To Live by Susan Sleeman

When cybercriminals hack into the US Marshals’ Witness Protection database and auction off witnesses’ personal details to the highest bidders, the RED Team led by FBI Agent Sean Nichols begins a high-stakes chase to find the hacker. But before he can even get started, the first witness is targeted and barely escapes with her life. Sean believes Phantom, an obsessed hacker who previously outwitted the top minds in the field, is behind the attack, and Sean needs this witness’s help, as she’s the person who has come closest to discovering Phantom’s identity.

Trouble is, she’s a witness under the care of US Marshal Taylor Mills, and Sean is reluctant to work with the captivating marshal who knows his deepest secrets. But Phantom claims he knows where the witness is hiding and will kill her, so to stop the hacker, Sean and Taylor must work through their personal pain and learn to trust each other. . . . The seconds are ticking down before someone dies.
Releases December 3.

Echoes Among The Stones by Jaime Jo Wright

After Aggie Dunkirk’s career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn’t plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene–even going so far as to re-create it in the dollhouse.

Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the cemetery. Forced to work with the cemetery’s puzzling, yet attractive archeologist, she exhumes the past’s secrets and unwittingly uncovers a crime that some will go to any length to keep quiet–even if it means silencing Aggie.

In 1946, Imogene Flannigan works in a local factory and has eyes on owning her own beauty salon. But coming home to discover her younger sister’s body in the attic changes everything. Unfamiliar with the newly burgeoning world of criminal forensics and not particularly welcomed as a woman, Imogene is nonetheless determined to stay involved. As her sister’s case grows cold, Imogene vows to find justice . . . even if it costs her everything.
Releases December 3.

There you have it. How many of these are you looking forward to? I’d love to know.

My Rating: 5 stars!

‘She’d let her foolish head get filled with those silly fairy-tale dreams she never should have let herself entertain because she knew better.’

Ruth Logan Herne takes her readers back to Shepherd’s Crossing in Idaho where we have the story of horse breeder Isaiah Woods and veterinarian Charlotte Fitzgerald, two who should have been sworn enemies. Charlotte is determined to be a good vet and take care of the horses around the area, even when the long time veterinarian makes it known she is not welcome.

Herne once again proves she writes straight from the heart. There are good lessons to be learned here from this book and the characters who allow God to guide them. Well done!

*My thanks to the author for a copy of this book. The opinions stated here are entirely my own.

Publisher: Love Inspired
Publication Date: June 18, 2019, mass paperback (July 1, 2019 Kindle)
You can find Ruthie at: http://www.ruthloganherne.com

About Ruth Logan Herne

Best-selling, multi-published, award-winning author Ruth Logan Herne is the author of nearly fifty novels and novellas through traditional publishers and her own independent works. She loves God, her family, country, coffee, chocolate and dogs, and wishes possums would leave the cat food on the side porch alone. And yet… they don’t. With over a million books in print, Ruthy is living her dream of touching hearts and souls by writing the kind of books she likes to read.

She lives on a pumpkin farm in Western New York where they grow all kinds of cool things for fall from sumptuous squashes and veggies to gorgeous stacking pumpkins. Ruthy’s farm is quickly becoming the place to be every September and October!

She loves chatting with readers through her website blog http://ruthloganherne.com and hanging with readers and writers in Seekerville… http://www.seekerville.blogspot.com where coffee is always hot, fresh and good! She loves playing in the kitchen, too, with a wonderful group of regionally-inspired inspirational authors at the Yankee Belle Cafe http://www.yankeebellecafe.blogspot.com. On Goodreads, she’s (yes, you guessed it!) Ruth Logan Herne, and that’s how to find this prolific author on facebook, too!

Hello!  I am so excited to host MaryLu Tyndall on my blog today.  I was a forever fan with my first book read of hers.  Her pirate tales are so fascinating and she tells them so well, I feel as if I’m standing on the ships deck with the sea spray against my face.  But let’s talk to MaryLu today about her book, She Walks in Love, her second in the Protectors of the Spear series. 

1.  When did you know that you wanted to write and did you know you wanted to write Christian fiction?

I started writing when I was very young. I had a poem published in my high school year book, and I also wrote a couple of novels just for fun. But then I grew up (unfortunately) and the responsibilities of life got in the way. I didn’t write anything for years and years and never considered that I’d write again, let alone get published!  But one day the Lord placed an idea on my heart, a glorious, wonderful, crazy idea to write a novel about a Christian pirate. He then freed up some of my time, so I thought, why not? I obeyed, and lo and behold, the Lord opened door after door and He got that very first novel published!

2.  How do you get your ideas for books?

My ideas come from a variety of places: From books I read, movies, life, history, etc, but mainly I believe the Lord is the one who plants an idea on my heart. Those ideas usually simmer for a while until I start thinking about them more and more. Then I start to see the characters come to life in my mind. I see their faces and personalities! It’s like they are saying, “Write my story!”. That’s when I know it’s time to write that novel.

3.  Do you do a lot of research for each book?

Yes.  Research is really not my thing at all. I love history, but diving into the details and trying to find certain facts I need to know can be quite time consuming and difficult. Sometimes I have no idea where to go to find a certain fact. I have volumes of history books on my shelves and a host of links to online sights, so I do my best! 

4.  I love, love that you include spiritual warfare in your books. I firmly believe in this.  Have you ever taken flack for this?

Yes. I’ve had some negative comments for sure, but not as many as I thought I would!  I realize that much of the church either doesn’t believe in spiritual warfare and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, or they steer away from such topics out of fear and ignorance. In fact, rare is the pastor who teaches its members how to do battle against our enemy and win!  That’s why I feel the Lord wants me to write about these things, to show believers that we battle not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual rulers in high places. And we don’t have to live a life in subjection to them or a life of defeat. We are victorious through Jesus!

5.  Does the Holy Spirit speak to your heart about what to include in your books?

All the time! I can’t say there’s been a book I’ve written that the Holy Spirit hasn’t been right alongside me, leading me and telling me what to write. He and I have become good friends. 🙂

6.  You usually write pirate tales. Why did you decide to go to the medieval period? Which is my favorite setting, by the way.

It’s actually one of my favorite settings too! I’ve always loved medieval stories. Publishers will tell you that medievals don’t sell well, so I sort of steered away from it for a while. But they also told me pirate stories don’t sell well either, and that was wrong too.  Anyway, I couldn’t wait to dive into that time period, and I’ve had a great time writing my Protector of the Spear series. Another aspect of the medieval time period is that you can get away with more spiritual content because people in that day were very superstitious and highly spiritual, albeit not always in a good way, but more open to it nonetheless.

7.  What do you want readers to take away from this book?

There are many themes that run through She Walks in Love, but there are two main things I hope people will walk away with after they turn the last page. One, that God never leaves us, even if we feel like He’s gone, even if bad things happen to us over and over, He is there, watching over us, orchestrating events to bring us back to Him. And two, that this short life on earth is nothing compared to eternity, and that if we look at this life through that lens, all our problems and struggles will seem small and worth enduring for the glory God has in store for us.

About MaryLu Tyndall

Award winning and best-selling author, MaryLu Tyndall dreamt of pirates and sea-faring adventures during her childhood days on Florida’s Coast. After obtaining a degree in Math and working as software engineer for 15 years, she decided to test the waters as a writer. With now more than seventeen books published, she makes no excuses for the deeply spiritual themes embedded within her romantic adventures. As a follower of Christ, her stories often reflect her own journey and walk with God. Her hope is that readers will not only be entertained but will be brought closer to the Creator who loves them beyond measure. In a culture that accepts the occult, wizards, zombies, and vampires without batting an eye, MaryLu hopes to show the awesome present and powerful acts of God in a dying world. MaryLu makes her home with her husband, six children, two grandkids, and three cats on the California coast, where her imagination still surges with the sea.

My Rating: 5 stars!

‘Evil is astir this night. It begs entrance to this holy place.’

MaryLu Tyndall brings us her second novel in the ‘Protectors of the Spear’ series and it is so good.
The Spear is supposed to be the one which pierced the Savior’s side at His crucifixion and great powers lie within it. Lady Christiana D’Clere is the new protector of the Spear, her sister Alexia being the first. Lady Christiana has been kept drugged by the wicked steward of her family’s estate, he wanting control. There is also an evil bishop to deal with along with two who tread deeply into the dark side.

Christiana has escaped and is running for her life, protected by Sir Jarin the Just. He is determined to restore her to her rightful place as lady of Luxley Castle. But they will have to face many obstacles, both of a physical nature and from the spiritual realm. And Christiana must learn to trust that even though the blood of the Christ stains the relic, the power within her comes from God Himself. Sir Jarin has to learn to rely on powers greater than his own as a knight, as the dark powers that chase them seem only to grow stronger.

MaryLu Tyndall is a wonder at these spiritual warfare novels. She opens her readers’ eyes into that realm where evil does indeed fight against the right. I read this one in only one day. I am a forever fan. I very much recommend this one.

*My thanks to the author for a preview copy of this book. The opinions expressed here are entirely my own.

Publisher: Ransom Press
Publication Date: June 17, 2019
You can find MaryLu at: http://www.marylytyndall.com