Coming in October 2016!

Well, what a line up we have for October 2016!  I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m drowning in my TBR pile at the moment.  What a way to go, huh?!

I don’t even know where to start with my highlights for the month.  Ronie Kendig has a prequel novella coming out for her new Tox Files series (and it’s currently free!)  I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve been waiting  f-o-r-e-v-e-r  for this series to arrive!  And don’t forget the second book in her fantasy series, Abiassa’s Fire.

I’m honoured to be a part of both Lynn Austin’s and Connilyn Cossette’s release teams, and am looking forward to reviewing each of their new releases here on my blog.  Then there’s Kara Isaac’s Can’t Help Falling and the first book in Susan May Warren’s new Montana Rescue series.  And if you like your suspense to tackle some culturally relevant issues, then you should check out Alana Terry’s Kennedy Stern series.  The fourth book in this series releases towards the end of the month.  And that’s just for starters!

Below you will find the new releases for October listed according to genre – Amish, Biblical, Christmas Romance (yes, it’s that time of year already!), Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Mystery, Romantic Suspense, Speculative (including Fantasy, SciFi, and Dystopian), and Suspense/Thrillers.

Happy reading!

Amish Fiction

Title:  The Devoted
Author:  Suzanne Woods Fisher
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Revell
Series:  #3 The Bishop’s Family

Bright, curious, and restless, Ruthie Stoltzfus loves her family but is stuck in a sea of indecision about her future: Should she stay Amish? Or should she leave? Patrick Kelly has come to Stoney Ridge to convert to the Amish and has given himself thirty days to learn the language, drive a buggy, and adapt to “everything Plain.” Ruthie’s next-door neighbor and cunning ex-boyfriend, Luke Schrock, will do anything to win Ruthie back–anything–and Patrick Kelly is getting in his way.

Title:  Christian’s Hope
Author:  Irvin Stutzman
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Herald Press
Series:  #3 Return to Northkill

When Christian Hochstetler returns to the Amish after seven years in captivity, he finds that many things have shifted. Captured as a child during the French and Indian War, Christian has spent much of his life among Native Americans, who cared for him and taught him their ways. Now that Christian is home, his father wants him to settle back into their predictable Amish life of farming, and Christian’s budding friendship with Orpha Rupp beckons him to stay as well.

Title:  Love Bears All Things
Author:  Beth Wiseman
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson
Series:  #2 Amish Secrets

Charlotte Dolinsky needs time to recover after breaking up with her boyfriend, Ryan. But when a surprise visitor shows up on her doorstep in Texas, she’s forced to put aside her own worries to help her Amish friends in Lancaster County. Soon she is entangled in a web of deception and this time, she isn’t the only one keeping secrets.

Biblical Fiction

Title:  Shadow of the Storm
Author:  Connilyn Cossette
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Bethany House
Series:  #2 Out From Egypt

Having escaped Egypt with the other Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is now living in freedom at the foot of Mt. Sinai.  Although her mother wishes for her to continue in the family weaving trade, Shira’s gifts shine brightest when she assists with deliveries.  When a delivery goes horribly wrong, Shira finds herself bound to a man who betrayed her, the caretaker of three young children, and the target of a vengeful woman whose husband was killed by Shira’s people, the Levites.

Christmas Romance

Title:  The Christmas Secret
Author:  Wanda E. Brunstetter
Release date:  1 October 2016
Publisher:  Shiloh Run Press

Elizabeth Canning discovers an awful secret in her deceased mother’s diary. Believing her chances for a happy marriage are spoiled, she leaves her fiancé a letter and flees town. Anticipating a Christmas Eve wedding with Elizabeth, David Stinner is confused by her letter and desperate to find her.

Title:  Kissing Father Christmas
Author:  Robin Jones Gunn
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  FaithWords
Series:  #3 Father Christmas Series

Anna’s first visit to Carlton Heath in England was last May for the wedding of her cousin Ian to Miranda. The beautiful event ended with a dance under the stars and Anna receiving an unexpected kiss from Peter, the groomsman who caught her eye and now holds her heart. But when she sees Peter again, his intentions seem to shift as speedily as the blustery winter weather. Is Anna’s heart misleading her, or will Father Christmas bestow on her the gift of love for which she has long dreamed?

Title:  A Royal Christmas Wedding
Author:  Rachel Hauck
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson
Series:  #4 Royal Wedding Series

College volleyball star Avery Truitt has not seen her former flame, Prince Colin of Brighton Kingdom, since he suddenly pushed her away five years ago. But now, the sadness of losing her father and the joy of her sister Susanna’s pregnancy have brought Avery back to Brighton just in time for Cathedral City’s enchanting Christmas season…

Title:  Room at the Inn for Christmas
Author:  Mary Connealy
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  Swerve
Series:  Second Chance at Star Inn

Amanda Star’s father always wanted her to come into the family business, and run the majestic old Star Inn with him but she had bigger plans. She’s a high-powered executive in the multi-national Halston hotel chain. One more promotion—which she expects to get by Christmas—will make her the youngest vice president in Halston history and she’s got her sights set on the CEO job.  Then she inherits the Star Inn…

Title:  Do You Hear What I Hear?
Author:  Margaret Brownley
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  Swerve
Series:  Second Chance at Star Inn

Two bad things happened to Sally Cartwright that week. Three if she counted the pink slip received at the Home and Family magazine’s annual Christmas party. But nothing was worse than plowing into a snowbank and being stuck in a town she swore never to see again…

Title:  Silent Night, Star-Lit Night
Author:  Ruth Logan Herne
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  Swerve
Series:  Second Chance at Star Inn

When he heard Mia O’Loughlin was planning a trip north, pregnant and alone, Jed’s promise to her late husband kicked in. More Grinch than grace, he boarded a plane, determined that his best friend’s widow wouldn’t make the long trek alone.

Title:  Christmas at Dove Creek
Author:  Scarlett Dunn
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  Zebra

She rides like an angel and she’s a crack shot. And Lily Starr is determined to shepherd a helpless group of outcasts from Missouri to Wyoming by Christmas–including a pregnant woman whose blessed event is drawing near. So encountering handsome Thorpe Turlow along the dangerous trail is a welcome unexpected gift, for he’s as formidable as he is reserved. Besides, understanding this gentle, secretly wounded man is another challenge Lily isn’t about to resist…

Contemporary Fiction

Title:  Long Way Gone
Author:  Charles Martin
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson

At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O’Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. A radical retelling of the prodigal son story, Long Way Gone takes us from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home.

Contemporary Romance

Title:  The Broken Trail
Author:  Christa MacDonald
Release date:  1 October 2016
Publisher:  Mountain Brook Ink
Series:  #1 Sweet River Redemption

Katherine Grant takes the job at Sweet River Christian Academy hoping a small town in the wilderness of Maine will be a vacation from her high-powered career and a break from the emotional toll of the secrets she has buried deep. Maybe it would be easier if she wasn’t so distracted by Captain MacAlister, the local cop she can’t get along with, yet can’t get out of her head.

Title:  Risking Love
Author:  Brenda S. Anderson
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Vivant Press
Series:  #1 Where the Heart Is

Bank employee Lissa Morgan likes all the columns of her life to add up. From her job to romance, every major decision is planned out. But before she can go out on a date with Mr. Perfect, she attends a charity auction with her meddling mom who wins Lissa a date with thrill-seeker Caleb Johnson. When Lissa learns the extent of Caleb’s debt, she wonders if she can collect on his heart if she forecloses on his home…

Title:  How to Make a Wedding
Author:  Various
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Zondervan
Series:  A Year of Weddings

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.

Title:  Can’t Help Falling
Author:  Kara Isaac
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Howard Books

A funny, heartfelt romance about how an antique shop, a wardrobe, and a mysterious tea cup bring two C.S. Lewis fans together in a snowy and picturesque Oxford, England.

Title:  Since You’ve Been Gone
Author:  Christa Allan
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Waterfall Press

One moment, Olivia Kavanaugh is preparing to walk down the aisle and embrace her own happily ever after. The next, she learns that her fiancé, Wyatt Hammond, has been in a fatal car accident. Then comes a startling discovery: Wyatt’s car wasn’t heading toward the church. He was fifty miles away…with a baby gift in the backseat.

Title:  A Soldier Finds His Way
Author:  Irene Onorato
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Lyrical Shine

After a painful youth spent in foster homes, Special Forces soldier Edward Giordano has all but given up on love. Returning to New York from a dangerous mission in Costa Rica with no one to welcome him home, he knows he must find a way through his bitterness and embrace faith, or he’s destined for misery and loneliness. But he never expects that saving someone else’s life might help him save his own…

Title:  Blown Together
Author:  Janet W. Ferguson
Release date:  15 October 2016
Publisher:  Southern Sun Press
Series:  #4 Southern Hearts

Wealth manager Sam Conrad is accustomed to his domineering father ordering him around, especially at the bank where they both work. But when his father demands that Sam manage the inheritance of his bossy ex-fiancée, Sam has finally had enough. He leaves in search of a new life, and attorney Big Roy Bosarge from Mobile, Alabama, agrees to mentor Sam on his quest for direction. Sam didn’t expect to be thrown together with Big Roy’s eccentric and opinionated daughter.

Title:  The Tender Trap
Author:  Janice Thompson
Release date:  17 October 2016
Publisher:  Amazon
Series:  #5 Bella Novella Collection

Join Bella Neeley for an autumn shabby chic ceremony.

 

Title:  Wild Montana Skies
Author:  Susan May Warren
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Revell
Series:  #1 Montana Rescue Series

With Mercy Falls in a state of emergency due to flash floods, Kacey and Ben are forced to work together to save lives. But when floodwaters turn personal, can they put aside the past to save their future?

Title:  A Royal Christmas Wedding
Author:  Rachel Hauck
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson
Series:  #4 Royal Wedding Series

College volleyball star Avery Truitt has not seen her former flame, Prince Colin of Brighton Kingdom, since he suddenly pushed her away five years ago. But now, the sadness of losing her father and the joy of her sister Susanna’s pregnancy have brought Avery back to Brighton just in time for Cathedral City’s enchanting Christmas season…

Title:  Where Two Hearts Meet
Author:  Liz Johnson
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Revell
Series:  #2 Prince Edward Island Dreams

In her kitchen at the Red Door Inn, executive chef Caden Holt is calm, collected, and competent. But when her boss asks her to show off their beautiful island to impress a visiting travel writer and save the inn, Caden is forced to face a world much bigger than her kitchen–and a man who makes her wish she was beautiful.

Title:  Home on the Range
Author:  Ruth Logan Herne
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  WaterBrook
Series:  #2 Double S Ranch

Nick Stafford stayed in central Washington, working his family’s large ranch after his brothers left to pursue other passions—but his toughest job is being a single dad. For Dr. Elsa Andreas, life fell apart when tragedy caused her to abandon her family therapy practice and retreat to the backwoods of Gray’s Glen. Her school principal sister believes Elsa can guide the Stafford girls and that working with kids will draw Elsa out of her protective bubble.

Title:  Forever and For Always
Author:  Debra Clopton
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  DCP Publishing
Series:  #3 Windswept Bay Series

Publicist Olivia Sinclair has been away from Windswept Bay for years, busy helping the Hollywood elite get out of one scandal after another. But now, she’s in the middle of her own scandal. Suddenly, coming home to lay low in Windswept Bay is her own best advice to herself. Being rescued by a stranger who could rival any of her Hollywood clients—isn’t exactly what Olivia had planned. Falling for the guy who, she learns, is perfect tabloid material in his own right is not a smart PR move.

Title:  Trust My Heart
Author:  Carol J. Post
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  Waterfall Press

Grant McAllister arrives in Murphy, North Carolina, with one aim: to sell his inherited property and leave as quickly as possible. The big-city lawyer has no interest in his late, estranged grandparents or the dilapidated mansion he just acquired. After his high-profile divorce, he should be avoiding perky reporters, too. But Jami Carlisle is honest, funny, and undeniably appealing.

Historical Fiction

Title:  The Cottage
Author:  Michael Phillips
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Bethany House
Series: #2 Secrets of the Shetlands

When Loni Ford is informed that she has inherited property in the Shetland Islands, she laughs. She wants nothing more than to sell it and be done with it. But when she arrives in the North Sea enclave, she is stunned to find that “the Cottage” is not at all what she expected, nor is David Tulloch, the man most of the islanders believe to be the rightful heir.

Title:  Waves of Mercy
Author:  Lynn Austin
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Bethany House

Geesje de Jonge left the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness at the age of seventeen. Fifty years later, in 1897, she’s asked to write a memoir of her early experiences. She soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love.  At nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort on the shore of Lake Michigan, twenty-three-year-old Anna Nicholson is trying to ease the pain of a broken engagement. Neither Geesje nor Anna, different in every possible way, can foresee the life-altering surprises awaiting them before the summer ends.

Title:  Child of the River
Author:  Irma Joubert
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson

A compelling coming of age story with an unlikely and utterly memorable heroine, Child of the River is a timeless tale of heartbreak and triumph set in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid.

Historical Romance

Title:  The Captive Heart
Author:  Michelle Griep
Release date:  1 October 2016
Publisher:  Barbour

Proper English governess Eleanor Morgan flees to the colonies to escape the wrath of a brute of an employer. When the Charles Town family she’s to work for never arrives to collect her from the dock, she is forced to settle for the only reputable choice remaining to her—marriage to a man she’s never met.

Title:  The Rails to Love
Author:  Various
Release date:  1 October 2016
Publisher:  Barbour

Journey the Transcontinental Railroad along with nine unlikely couples who encounter all the dangers and disappointments of traveling the rails in the late 1800s. From sight-seeing excursions to transports toward new lives, from orphan trains to circus trains, can romances develop into blazing love in a world of cold, hard steel?

Title:  From This Day Forward
Author:  Lorraine Snelling
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Bethany House
Series:  #4 Song of Blessing

Deborah MacCallister has loved Toby Valders since her school days, but she’s had enough of their on-again, off-again relationship. Toby truly cares for Deborah, but he’s never felt like he could commit to marriage or a family.  When Anton Genddarm, the new schoolteacher, comes to town, sparks fly between Deborah and Anton, and she finds herself in an even more complicated situation. The attention she gets from Anton makes Toby do some serious soul-searching, but is it too late?

Title:  The Honorable Heir
Author:  Laurie Alice Eakes
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Waterfall Press

An American heiress and widow of a rakish English earl, Catherine has returned to New York high society determined to make amends for the scandal she caused when she crossed the Atlantic to elope with her best friend’s suitor and win the title of Lady Bisterne. But a ruined reputation isn’t the only thing that’s followed her home: Lord Tristram Wolfe, the rightful heir to the Bisterne estate, has vowed to track down his family’s stolen jewels—gems he’s certain Catherine stole.

Title:  The Cautious Maiden
Author:  Dawn Crandall
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Whitaker House
Series:  #4 Everstone Chronicles

Violet Hawthorne is beyond mortified when her brother Ezra turns their deceased parents’ New England country inn into a brothel to accommodate the nearby lumberjacks; but when Violet’s own reputation is compromised, the inn becomes the least of her worries. In an effort to salvage her good name, Violet is forced into an engagement with a taciturn acquaintance: Vance Everstone.

Title:  Beneath the Heavens
Author:  Lindsay Barlow
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Light Messages Publishing
Series:  Tall Pine Series

When the beautiful and coddled Abigail Silvers is sent from her parents’ lush Texas ranch to the untamed wilds of Tall Pine, Colorado, her mother is hoping that Abigail will learn independence and self-reliance. What Abigail finds among the Colorado mountain people is a community built on hard work, faith, and family––she also finds the handsome Pastor Will who, much to her dismay, seems only to have eyes for Esther, the community’s midwife hiding from a dark past.

Title:  Aboard Providence
Author:  Keely Brooke Keith
Release date:  20 October 2016
Publisher:  CrossRiver Media Group

Despite accusations of wrongdoing that threaten his career, when Jonah Ashton learns his father plans to join a group of families who are sailing away from America to form a new settlement, he travels to Virginia to say goodbye. However, an accident forces Jonah to accompany them to serve as the ship’s physician. He boards the Providence with the plan to escort his family to their new settlement in South America and then return to Pennsylvania to clear his name. What he doesn’t count on is getting lost at sea and Marian Foster…

Mystery

Title:  Another Day, Another Dali
Author:  Sandra Orchard
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Revell
Series:  #2 Serena Jones Mystery

When a valuable Salvador Dali painting belonging to her grandmother’s friend is mysteriously replaced by a forgery, FBI Special Agent Serena Jones is called in to investigate. Serena hopes finding the thief will also mean finally measuring up to Nana’s expectations. But when the evidence points to members of the owner’s own household, it becomes increasingly clear that Serena won’t be winning any popularity contests.

Romantic Suspense

Title:  Tangled Webs
Author:  Irene Hannon
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Revell
Series:  #3 Men of Valor

After a disastrous Middle East mission ends his six-year Army Ranger career, Finn McGregor needs some downtime. A peaceful month in the woods sounds like the perfect way to decompress. But peace isn’t on the agenda once he crosses paths with publishing executive Dana Lewis, a neighbor who is nursing wounds of her own.

Title:  Pointe and Shoot
Author:  Alison Stone
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Waterfall Press

Jayne Murphy has always put family first. That’s why she abandoned her dream of joining the police force to run her ailing mother’s dance studio. When one of the studio’s most talented instructors dies in a car crash, Jayne isn’t convinced it was just an accident. She teams up with Officer Danny Nolan, the best friend and partner of her brother Patrick, who died in the line of duty. Haunted by Patrick’s death, Danny has begun to question whether he should still be a cop at all.

Title:  Midnight Angel
Author:  Betsy St. Amant
Release date:  7 October 2016
Publisher:  White Rose Publishing

Madison Lawrence is tired of her socialite upbringing and wants to escape the confines of her domineering father. A chance encounter with a mysterious German stranger sets her on a path that will bring her more happiness…and danger than she thought possible.

Title:  ‘Mums in November
Author:  Clare Revell
Release date:  21 October 2016
Publisher:  White Rose Publishing
Series:  Flowers Can Be Fatal

Running into Amber Neville after twenty years wasn’t on Dr. Jackson Parker’s list of things to do. Amber had been head girl to his head boy, and from what he remembers, she was British, stuck up and bossy. Newly returned from a job in Canada, Amber remembers Jackson as a brash and rude American–not at all the even-tempered, handsome doctor he’s turned out to be. But she can’t get involved, not with the massive burden she bears–a burden that has to remain hidden at all costs.

Speculative Fiction (Fantasy, SciFi, Dystopian)

Title:  Jupiter Storm
Author:  C.J. Darlington
Release date:  1 October 2016
Publisher:  Mountainview Books
Series:  #2 Jupiter Winds (YA series)

Only a week ago Grey Alexander thought she and her sister were orphans. And like everyone else she believed Jupiter was uninhabitable. Now she’s standing on its surface, reunited with her mom and dad and on the brink of an interplanetary war. Cut off from reinforcements and traveling in a ship full of strangers, who can they trust? Surely not Dana Yurkutz, the traitorous prisoner who even though she inexplicably saved Grey’s life is still loyal to Mazdaar…

Title:  The Morning Star Rises
Author:  Sara Davison
Release date:  10 October 2016
Publisher:  Ashberry Lane Publishing
Series:  #3 The Seven Trilogy

Jesse Christensen is out of the army, but the real battle has just begun. As martial law continues in Canada in 2054, Major Gallagher has taken over the city. His oppression of believers intensifies in response to a so-called radical Christian group that claims responsibility for more terrorist attacks. Meryn O’Reilly faces a dark and uncertain future after shocking revelations devastate her life. She is determined to follow God’s call, but her plans could cost her everything.

Title:  Unblemished (YA)
Author:  Sara Ella
Release date:  11 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson

Eliyana is used to the shadows. With a birthmark covering half her face, she just hopes to graduate high school unscathed. That is, until Joshua hops a fence and changes her perspective. No one, aside from her mother, has ever treated her like he does: normal. Maybe even beautiful. Because of Joshua, Eliyana finally begins to believe she could be loved.  But one night her mother doesn’t come home, and that’s when everything gets weird.

Title:  Accelerant
Author:  Ronie Kendig
Release date:  14 October 2016
Publisher:  Enclave
Series:  #2 Abiassa’s Fire

The Nine Kingdoms bleed. Leaderless, ravaged, the land awaits deliverance from Poired Dyrth’s devastating campaign. But what if one blight can only be cleansed by another? The promised Fierian is known by many names. Judge. Destroyer. Scourge. And now one other: Haegan, Prince of Seultrie. He knows only one thing for certain: as the only able-bodied heir to the Fire Throne, he must return to the Nine and fight for his people.

Title:  A Time to Rise
Author:  Nadine Brandes
Release date:  14 October 2016
Publisher:  Enclave
Series:  #3 Out of Time

Parvin Blackwater is dead.  At least…that’s what the Council and the world thinks. But her sacrifice tore down part of the Wall long enough to stir up hope and rebellion in the people. Now she will rise again. Strong, free, and fearless.

Suspense/Thrillers

Title:  The Warrior’s Seal
Author:  Ronie Kendig
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Bethany House
Series:  #0.5 Tox Files

Special Forces operator Cole “Tox” Russell and his team are tasked in a search-and-rescue—the U.S. president has been kidnapped during a goodwill tour. The mission nosedives when an ancient biblical artifact and a deadly toxin wipe out villages. Tox must stop the terrorists and the toxin to save the president–and his team–before it’s too late! 

Title:  The Candidate
Author:  Lis Wiehl
Release date:  4 October 2016
Publisher:  Thomas Nelson
Series:  #2 The Newsmakers

Mike Ortiz is a dynamic war hero favored to win the White House. Standing by his side is his glamorous and adoring wife, Celeste. But something about this seemingly perfect couple troubles Erica. Is Celeste really who she seems? And what really happened in that squalid Al-Qaeda prison where Mike Ortiz spent nine months?  Erica’s relentless search for the truth puts the life of her preteen daughter Jenny in danger, even as Erica’s own dark past threatens to overtake her.

Title:  A Primary Decision
Author:  Dr. Kevin Leman & Jeff Nesbit
Release date:  18 October 2016
Publisher:  Revell
Series:  #3 The Worthington Destiny

Sarah Worthington never expected to become the US attorney general–at least not this early in her career. Plunged into the vicious vetting process, with all sides digging for secrets in her family closet, she steels herself for the path forward. Nothing will deter her from making her mark on the world in the biggest way possible–even if that means prosecuting the current president of the United States.

Title:  Straightened
Author:  Alana Terry
Release date:  24 October 2016
Publisher:  Amazon
Series:  #4 Kennedy Stern Series

A teenage boy begging God to make him straight. An evangelical father refusing to accept his son is gay. A college sophomore who could never predict the dangers about to overtake her and the ones she loves. No matter where you stand, Straightened will challenge you to delve into the controversy with your eyes wide open and extend the grace and empathy too often lacking from all sides of the aisle.

Title:  Death in the Mind’s Eye
Author:  Rick Acker
Release date:  25 October 2016
Publisher:  Waterfall Press

San Francisco attorney Mike Webster does not lose medical-malpractice cases. But his stellar reputation and faith are put to the test when he agrees to defend Dr. Johanna Anderson, a brilliant and beautiful psychologist.

Phew!  What a list.  I’d love to know which ones will be on your TBR list.