Spreading His Grace: Featured Releases

It’s already October??? How has this happened? It feels like it was just the beginning of the year, and now 2018 is already almost over! I do have to say though, I’m super excited it’s finally October, because it’s my birthday month! And my super sweet boyfriend has been telling me for months about the surprise plans he has for my birthday, so I can’t wait to finally find out what they are! And, I haven’t let myself buy any books for the last two months because I bought too many over the summer, so I’m super excited to finally be able to buy some new books! And the books I have on this list are super tempting!

Featured Releases

The Reluctant Warrior by Mary Connealy

The Reluctant Warrior is the second book in Mary’s High Sierra Sweethearts series, coming after The Accidental Guardian.

He thought his toughest tests were behind him.

But nothing could prepare him for trying to win back the love of his daughter.

Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He’s come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead, he finds himself trapped by a blizzard with two children, who are terrified of him, and the stubborn but beautiful Gwen Harkness, who he fears may be trying to keep the children.

When danger descends on the cabin where they’re all huddled, Cam is injured trying to protect everyone and now finds Gwen caring for him too. He soon realizes why the kids love her so much and worries that it might be best for him to move on without them. When she sees his broken heart, Gwen decides to help him win back their affection—and in the process he might just win her heart as well.

Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd

Lady of a Thousand Treasures is the first book in Sandra’s Victorian Ladies series.

Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiques, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father’s passing and her uncle’s decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone.

The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron’s legendary collection. She must choose whether to donate the priceless treasures to a museum or allow them to pass to the baron’s only living son, Harry—the man who broke Eleanor’s heart.

Eleanor distrusts the baron’s motives and her own ability to be unbiased regarding Harry’s future. Harry claims to still love her and Eleanor yearns to believe him, but his mysterious comments and actions fuel her doubts. When she learns an Italian beauty accompanied him on his return to England, her lingering hope for a future with Harry dims.

With the threat of a debtor’s prison closing in, Eleanor knows that donating the baron’s collection would win her favor among potential clients, saving Sheffield Brothers. But the more time she spends with Harry, the more her faith in him grows. Might Harry be worthy of his inheritance, and her heart, after all? As pressures mount and time runs out, Eleanor must decide whom she can trust—who in her life is false or true, brass or gold—and what is meant to be treasured.

Miles from Where We Started by Cynthia Ruchti

Miles from Where We Started is a stand-alone novel.

These no-longer-newlyweds want out of this road trip—and their marriage. Too bad they can’t find the off-ramp.

Weeks away from their one-year anniversary, Mallory and Connor Duncan can’t even agree on how to end their marriage. But when a last-minute crisis lands them on a three-thousand-mile road trip together, Mallory wonders if their story may not be over after all.

The trip begins to unravel before the key is even in the ignition, and an at-risk, trouble-seeking missile of an eleven-year-old is unexpectedly launched into their travel plans. Close quarters get even tighter, and the couple believes this whole experience will spell disaster.

But as new challenges pop up around each bend, Mallory and Connor are surprised by the strengths they see in one another—and how they complement each other. Their first year of marriage hasn’t been the arm-in-arm togetherness they expected…but can they find a new beginning when the road ends.

Reason to Breathe by Deborah Raney

Reason to Breathe is the first book in Deborah’s Chandler Sisters series.

At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to help her sisters care for their dying mother. Now Mom is gone and their father shocks them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phee feels stuck—until her father’s protégé presents her with an intriguing business proposition.

When Quinn Mitchell offers to help Phee purchase and renovate three small like cottages on the outskirts of Langhorne, Missouri, he doesn’t count on falling in love with her. Yet here he is: head over heels. But how can Quinn declare his love for this beautiful, talented woman twelve years his junior when she’s still reeling from her father’s hasty remarriage to a younger woman? Can Quinn convince Phee that it isn’t too late to see her dreams come true?

When We Were Young by Karen Kingsbury

When We Were Young is the fourth book in Karen’s Baxter Family series, coming after Love Story, In This Moment, and To the Moon and Back.

From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter were meant to be together. Theirs is a special kind of love and they want the world to know. They’ve been letting more than a million adoring fans follow their lives @When_We_Were_Young since the day Noah proposed to Emily on bended knee. But behind the carefully-staged photos and entertaining posts, their life is anything but a fairy tale and Noah’s obsession has ruined everything.

Distraught, Emily reaches out to her friend Kari Baxter Taylor and tells her the truth: Noah and Emily have decided to call it quits and Noah is leaving in the morning. Kari prays for a miracle. But deep inside, Kari knows she needs a miracle herself. She and her husband, Ryan are facing their own crisis—one that is guaranteed to change their marriage forever.

Meanwhile, Noah Carter is ready for his new life to begin, ready to start over without Emily. Tomorrow. But when he wakes up in the morning, everything is different. Emily and the kids have changed and things are not what they seem. Desperate, he tries to undo his mistake, but it’s too late. It would take a miracle to return to yesterday.

The miracle Kari Baxter Taylor prayed for…

Things Left Unsaid by Courtney Walsh

Things Left Unsaid is a stand-alone novel.

Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married but unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven. The idyllic cottage community harbors some of her best—and worst—memories. It’s not only the tragic death of her childhood friend Cassie that has haunted her for ten years, it’s the other secrets she’s buried that have kept her from moving on.

But Lyndie isn’t the only one with secrets.

Cassie’s mother, father, and brother, still struggling with the loss, have been drifting further and further apart. And Elle herself, the last to see Cassie alive, carries an impossible burden of guilt. Now reunited, each of them has a choice: to reveal the truths of that night or continue to live in its shadow. That means embarking on a personal journey of the heart—to escape the darkness and all its regrets and to finally come to terms with the past and, especially, with each other.

Other Releases

The Cumberland Bride by Sharon McNear

The Cumberland Bride is the fifth book in the Daughters of the Mayflower series, coming after The Mayflower Bride, The Pirate Bride, The Captured Bride, and The Patriot Bride.

Hidden Peril by Irene Hannon

Hidden Peril is the second book in Irene’s Code of Honor series, coming after Dangerous Illusions.

Legacy of Mercy by Lynn Austin

Legacy of Mercy is the sequel to Lynn’s Waves of Mercy novel.

Shelter of the Most High by Connilyn Cossette

Shelter of the Most High is the second book in Connilyn’s Cities of Refuge series, coming after A Light on the Hill.

Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock

Catching Christmas is a stand-alone novel.

Enchanting Nicholette by Dawn Crandall

Enchanting Nicholette is the fifth book in Dawn’s Everstone Chronicles series, coming after The Hesitant Heiress, The Bound Heart, The Captive Imposter, and The Cautious Maiden.