December
2016 New Releases
More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on
the ACFW Fiction Finder
website.
Contemporary Romance:
Bella
Natale! by Marianne Evans -- An aspiring American artist and the
widowed, Italian owner of a premier art gallery meet and fall in love in
Florence when he champions her work, but there are her American family's
expectations and his five-year-old son to consider. (Contemporary Romance from White Rose
Publishing [Pelican])
With
this Kiss by Marianne
Evans -- A kiss stolen in a midnight snow. A jealous colleague at Jonathan's firm is
bent on revenge...revenge that puts Isabella's store into legal peril. Will
love be enough to see them through? (Contemporary Romance from White Rose
Publishing [Pelican])
Mistletoe
Daddy by Deb
Kastner -- Bubbly Vivian Grainger bids on gruff Nick McKenna at
Serendipity Texas's annual Bachelors and Baskets for one reason--to help her
build her hair salon; but once Nick finds out she's pregnant, he does his best
to build a path to Vivian's heart. (Contemporary Romance from Love Inspired
[Harlequin])
A
Hero for Heather by Marion
Ueckermann -- When a "homeless" man she's been helping
rescues social worker Heather Blume from a vicious attack, she's so grateful
she violates one of the most important rules in her profession--she takes him
home to tend his wounds. But the mysterious Paxton Rathbone is no homeless
man…he's a gentleman. When feelings grow, and Paxton's past beckons, both he
and Heather discover there's a fine line between gratitude and love.
(Contemporary Romance, Independently Published)
A Husband for
Holly by Marion Ueckermann
-- Holly Blume loves decorating people's homes, but that doesn't mean she's
ready to play house. Believing a house is not a home without a woman's touch,
Reverend Christopher Stewart is in the market for a wife. What woman would
consider him marriage material, though, with an aging widowed father to look
after, especially one who suffers from Alzheimer's? Despite their differences,
Holly resolves to finish her job of redesigning the Stewart home, while
Christopher determines to re-form Holly's heart. (Contemporary Romance,
Independently Published)
Rocky
Mountain Cowboy by Tina
Radcliffe -- Twelve years after she married another man, Rebecca
Anshaw Simpson is back at Joe Gallagher's ranch as his physical therapist. But
healing his body is nothing compared to guarding his heart from the woman he
never forgot. Becca won't let regret and a surly rancher get in the way of her
job and the chance to start over with her little girl. But Becca never expected
she'd fall all over again for her first love. (Contemporary Romance from Love
Inspired [Harlequin])
Cozy Mystery:
Christmas
Cookie Mystery by Naomi
Miller -- With Christmas right around the corner, Katie Chupp and The
Sweet Shop get involved in a mystery when a certain dear family finds an
unexpected package at their door. (Cozy Mystery from S&G Publishing)
Historical:
Michel: The
Fourth Wise Man by Katheryn
Maddox Haddad -- This descendant of Daniel, also a wise man,
sacrifices everything - his wife, his father, his home - to do what he is
convinced God needs him to do, then finds out he was wrong (Historical from
Northern Lights Publishing House)
Five Nights
with Pharaoh by Kristen
Reed -- Shortly after entering Egypt with her husband, Sarai is taken
into Pharaoh’s harem as his newest, most favored concubine. The breathtaking,
ageless beauty is forced to cling to her faith in God as she prays for the
strength to accept her new position and endures a series of mysterious plagues
that can only be indicative of a wrathful deity’s divine judgment. Discover a remarkable reimagining of Sarai’s
plight in Egypt, where she humbly set aside her own honor to protect the man
through whom all the nations of the earth would be blessed. (Historical - Independently Published)
Historical Romance:
Seven Brides
for Seven Texans Romance Collection by Amanda
Barratt, Susan
Page Davis, Keli
Gwyn, Vickie
McDonough, Gabrielle
Meyer, Lorna
Leslie Seilstad, Erica
Vetsch -- Meet the seven Hart brothers of the 7-Heart ranch in
central Texas. Each man is content in his independent life, without the
responsibilities of a wife and children--until their father decides 1874 will
be the year his grown sons finally marry, or they will be cut from his will.
How will each man who values his freedom respond to the ultimatum? Can love
develop on a timeline, or will it be sacrificed for the sake of an inheritance?
(Historical Romance from Barbour Publishing) 
A Pony
Express Romance by Misty M.
Beller -- Pony Express rider Josiah English and the station master's
sister, Mara Reid, fall in love, but when the Express shuts down and Mara's
family home is in peril, the danger looming over Mara's life may not be half as
destructive as that threatening her heart. (Historical Romance, Independently
Published)
Military Suspense:
Conspiracy of
Silence by Ronie
Kendig -- A former Green Beret is confronted by past mistakes as he
and his team battle a centuries-old plague and the terrorists bent on rewriting
history. (Military Suspense from Bethany House [Baker])
Romantic Suspense:
Hazardous
Holiday by Liz
Johnson -- Just in time for the holidays, navy SEAL Zach McCloud
returns home from deployment--and discovers someone wants his family dead. When
he married his cousin's struggling widow, he vowed to help her and her
seriously ill son, and now he'll risk everything to protect them. Even if their
arrangement is only temporary. Kristi's certain an unhappy client from the law
firm where she works is determined to hunt her down. But when a sniper bullet
wildly misses its target, they begin to question whether it's really her someone
wants dead. Working together, can they figure out why they've been attacked…and
keep little Cody from the nefarious forces dead set on making this Christmas
their last? (Romantic Suspense from Love
Inspired [Harlequin])
Christmas
Conspiracy by Susan
Sleeman -- When Commander Jake Marsh loses control of a hostage
situation and Tessa Long is injured, guilt eats at him. He blurs the line
between the professional and personal, and visits Tessa at the hospital. But
when a man tries to kill her in her hospital room, Jake disregards all of the
rules and regulations that have allowed him to control his world and vows to
keep her safe no matter what. Trouble is, the situation brings back memories
from his childhood of the loss of his entire family, and for the first time in
twenty years, he fears he's no longer in charge of his life, and knows when
he's out of control bad things happen. Very bad things. (Romantic Suspense from
Love Inspired [Harlequin])