June 2016 New
Releases
More
in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder
website.
Contemporary
Romance:
Sweet
Dreams by Cecelia
Dowdy -- A single mom trying to distance herself and her two year old
daughter from their dysfunctional family is torn when she falls for a grieving
baker dealing with his own family struggles. (Contemporary Romance,
Independently Published)
In Love and
War by Miralee
Ferrell, Kimberly
Rose Johnson, Debby
Mayne, and Trish
Perry -- In this collection, four couples have to decide whether to
fight or find love. A gift shop clerk at a fancy resort fights to redeem her
reputation with her high-school crush turned new boss. To save her fledgling
business, a landscape artist competes in a design competition against two
handsome men--her ex- fiancé and her one-time best friend. An ad
agent disapproves of the new playboy working at her Washington, D.C. agency,
until they're forced to work together on a campaign and she finds herself
falling for him. A man starts a new restaurant in the town where his childhood
sweetheart owns a diner, and the sparks that fly aren't just competitive ones.
Sea
Rose Lane by Irene
Hannon -- After a devastating layoff, attorney Eric Nash heads back
to the town where he grew up--only to discover that his childhood home is being
transformed into a bed & breakfast. Instead of plotting his next career
move in peace, he's constantly distracted by noise, chaos--and BJ Stevens, the
attractive but prickly blonde architect and construction chief who's invaded
the house with her motley crew. As for BJ, her client's son might be handsome,
but after a disastrous romance, dating isn't high on her agenda. Yet when they
join forces to create a program for Hope Harbor seniors, might they also find
healing, hope, and a new beginning themselves? (Contemporary Romance from
Revell [Baker])
A Love to
Treasure by Kimberly
Rose Johnson -- While on vacation an amateur sleuth follows left by
her deceased grandmother, and ends up working with a local police officer to
solve several mysterious burglaries. (Contemporary Romance from Mountain Brook
Ink)
Almost
Like Being in Love by Beth K.
Vogt -- Caron Hollister goes on vacation to Colorado and ends up
working as a home stager for her ex-boyfriend, a realtor participating in the
Colorado Springs Tour of Homes. But she can't let herself fall for him when
she's already won an all-expenses paid destination wedding for her and her
current boyfriend—who hasn't proposed to her yet. (Contemporary Romance from
Howard [Simon & Schuster])
General
Fiction:
Sapphire
Secrets by Dawn
V. Cahill -- Twins Livy and DeeDee McCreary open a dance studio in
honor of their late mother, whom they lost when they were six. Problem is, Livy
remembers nothing of the day her mother died. The more she questions her family
about that awful day, the more she suspects she's been lied to all her life.
While she's seeking answers to what really happened, she keeps crossing paths
with handsome engineer Scott Lorenzo, who compels her to question the New Age philosophy
she was raised on. What if there is a personal God out there who cares about
her? Before Livy can discover answers, a brutal accident interrupts her search.
Can she find the strength to keep on with her quest, even if it means losing
the two people dearest to her--her twin, and the man she loves? (General,
Independently Published)
Close to
Home by Deborah
Raney -- Bree Cordel Whitman is a Whitman by marriage, but sometimes
she forgets she wasn't born into Grant and Audrey's family. Her late husband,
Timothy Whitman, gave his life for his country on a windblown hill in
Afghanistan. Bree has let the love of Tim's family keep her ties to him
strong--in the same way she keeps Tim's memory alive for them. But it's been
almost five years, and she can't hang onto the past forever. Fighting the guilt
she feels for wanting to love again, she can't help her dreams about a tall,
dark, and handsome man--a man who is not her Tim. How can she accept the
flirtations from Drew Brooks without throwing the Whitman family back into
grieving? And how can Drew compete with the ghost of a hero and the hero's very
alive family who seem to hold some spell over the woman who shares their name .
. . a woman he might just love? (General from Abingdon Press)
Historical
Literary:
Like
a River from Its Course by Kelli
Stuart -- An epic novel exposing the ugliness of war and the beauty
of hope through the eyes of four people. Maria Ivanovna is only fourteen when
the bombing begins and not much older when she is forced into work at a German
labor camp. She must fight to survive and to make her way back to her beloved
Ukraine. Ivan Kyrilovich is falsely mistaken for a Jew and lined up with 34,000
other men, women, and children who are to be shot at the edge of Babi Yar, the
"killing ditch." He survives, but not without devastating
consequences. Luda is sixteen when German soldiers attack her. Now pregnant
with the child of the enemy, she is abandoned by her father, alone, and in
pain. She must learn to trust family and friends again and find her own
strength in order to discover the redemption that awaits. Frederick Hermann is
sure in his knowledge that the Führer's plans for domination are right and
just. He is driven to succeed by a desire to please a demanding father and by
his own blind faith in the ideals of Nazism. (Historical Literary from Kregel
Publications)
Historical
Romance:
A Nanny for
Keeps by Janet Lee
Barton -- With no teaching positions open, Georgia Marshall agrees to
become the temporary nanny for the two little girls next door. She soon becomes
enamored of the precocious children and their distant widowed father, but the
nobleman is out of her reach. Tyler Walker swore he'd never again give his
heart away. He refuses to allow this arrangement with the pretty teacher to
become permanent…no matter how much he wants Georgia by his side--forever.
(Historical Romance from Love Inspired [Harlequin])
The 12 Brides
of Summer Collection by Diana Lesire
Brandmeyer, Margaret
Brownley, Amanda
Cabot, Mary
Connealy, Susan Page
Davis, Miralee
Ferrell, Pam
Hillman, Maureen
Lang, Amy
Lillard, Vickie
McDonough, Davalynn
Spencer, and Michelle
Ule -- Meet 12 adventurous Victorian era women--a beekeeper who is
afraid of bees, a music teacher whose dog has dug up a treasure, a baker who
enters a faux courtship, and six more--along with the men they encounter while
making summertime memories. Will these loves sown during summer be strengthened
by faith and able to endure a lifetime? (Historical Romance from Barbour
Publishing)
The
Ringmaster's Wife by Kristy
Cambron -- Lady Rosamund Easling boards a ship to America as a last
adventure before her arranged marriage. There, the twenties are roaring, and
the rich and famous gather at opulent, Gatsby-esque parties. The Jazz Age has
arrived, and with it, the golden era of the American circus, whose queen is
none other than the enigmatic Mable Ringling. When Rosamund's path crosses with
Mable's and the Ringlings' glittering world, she makes the life-altering
decision to leave behind a comfortable future of estates and propriety,
choosing instead the nomadic life of a trick rider in the Ringling Brothers'
circus. (Historical Romance from HarperCollins Christian Publishing [Thomas
Nelson and Zondervan])
Saving the
Marquise's Granddaughter by Carrie
Fancett Pagels -- After her Huguenot father is arrested, aristocrat
Suzanne Richelieu escapes Versailles. Handsome German peasant, Johan Rousch,
risks his life to bring her to the safety of his family's farm in the
Palatinate duchy, but when Suzanne's brother and the French army arrive with a
warning that they plan to burn the area, she and Johan are forced to flee. With
no money or options, both become indentured servants in exchange for safe
passage to Philadelphia. Suzanne falls gravely ill aboard ship and marries Johan,
only to survive with no memory of the wedding--a reality made worse when Johan
spots the "priest" who married them working as a surveyor and later
in Quaker cleric garb. Are their wedding vows valid? When Suzanne's former
fiancé arrives in port, planning to abduct her, Johan must save her
again-but can he do so before Suzanne is lost to him forever? (Historical
Romance from White Rose Publishing [Pelican])
Young
Adult:
No Pizza
Delivery? by Grace
Marshall -- Ruth Deloach's world is sent spinning when she finds out
she is going to be ripped from America's Dairyland to live in the
embarrassingly small tourist town of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The blow is
slightly lessened by the news that her father wants to start a horse ranch, but
how enjoyable will it really be to live where there is no pizza delivery and a
revolving door to the public? A public with a different idea of how things are
done and said. To add embarrassment to her frustration she finds she knows less
about horses than she presumed. Maybe the handsome ranch hand her father hires
can brighten things up, then again, maybe not. (Young Adult, Independently
Published)
