Featured Releases—January

Happy January! I know this is a little delayed; I normally post my Featured Releases posts at the end of the previous month, and here we are already over a week into January. However, I’ve been so busy working on my new website, and I wanted to try to wait and share this after the blog relaunch, so that is the reason for the delay. But, I’m sharing about these new books now, so get excited! Besides, the good thing about the delay is that some of these books have already released so you can go out and get them now!

Featured Releases

A Bound Heart by Laura Frantz

A Bound Heart is a stand-alone novel.

 

Though Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up on the same castle grounds, Magnus is now laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera. Lark is just the keeper of his bees—and the woman who could provide an elixir to help his ailing wife conceive and bear him an heir. But when his wife died suddenly, Magnus and Lark find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of accusations, expelled from their beloved island, and sold as indentured servants across the Atlantic. Can they make a new beginning in this New World? Or will their hopes be dashed against the rocky coastline of the Virginia colony?

Flights of Fancy by Jen Turano

Flights of Fancy is the first book in Jen’s American Heiresses series.

 

Miss Isadora Delafield may be an heiress, but her life is far from carefree. When her mother begins pressuring her to marry an elderly and uncouth duke, she escapes from the high-society world she’s always known and finds herself an unlikely candidate for a housekeeper position in rural Pennsylvania.

Mr. Ian MacKenzie is known for his savvy business sense and has built his reputation and fortune completely through traditional hard work. But when his adopted parents are in need of a new housekeeper and Isadora is thrown into his path, he’s unexpectedly charmed by her unconventional manner.

Neither Isadora nor Ian expected to find the other so intriguing, but when a chain of mysterious incidents on the farm point to a larger threat, they’ll have to set aside everything they thought they wanted for a chance at happy-ever-after.

With This Pledge by Tamera Alexander

With This Pledge is the first book in Tamera’s Carnton series.

 

What can a woman—a mere governess—do against the scourge of slavery?

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Clouston’s quietly held principles oppose those of the Southern Cause—but when forty thousand soldiers converge on the fields of Franklin, Tennessee, the war demands an answer. The Carnton home, where she is governess, is converted into a Confederate hospital, and Lizzie is called upon to assist the military doctor with surgeries that determine life or death. Faced with the unimaginable, she must summon fortitude even as she fears for the life of Towny, her fiancé and lifelong friend.

As a young soldier lies dying in Lizzie’s arms, she vows to relay his final words to his mother, but knows little more than the boy’s first name. That same night, decorated Mississippi sharpshooter Captain Roland Ward Jones extracts a different promise from Lizzie: that she intervene should the surgeon decide to amputate his leg.

Lizzie is nothing if not a woman of her word, earning the soldiers’ respect as she tends to the wounded within Carnton’s walls. None is more admiring than Captain Jones, who doesn’t realize she is pledged to another. But as Lizzie’s heart softens toward the Confederate captain, she discovers his moral ground is at odds with her own. Now torn between love, principles, and pledges made, she struggles to be true to her own heart while standing for what she knows is right—no matter the cost.

Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

Secrets at Cedar Cabin is the fourth book in Colleen’s Lavender Tides series, coming after The View from Rainshadow Bay, The House at Saltwater Point, and Leaving Lavender Tides.

 

Her mother lied about her identity and her husband wasn’t who she thought he was—can Bailey even trust herself anymore?

Running for her life in the wake of her mother’s murder, Bailey Fleming escapes to the only place she can think of—a remote, dilapidated cabin in Lavender Tides. Intending to finally get to know the truth behind the lies of her past, Bailey only finds more questions when bodies are discovered near her cabin hideout along with traces of a dangerous human trafficking ring. In an unlikely partnership with FBI agent Lance Phoenix, Bailey races to understand the mystery surrounding her life and circumstances before the murderer tracks her down.

Meanwhile, Lance is determined to rescue his sister, Ava, who was abducted after running away from home as a teenager. An unexpected lead brings him to the remote cabin, and he wonders if Bailey—with her suspicious past and strange connections to his sister’s case—is really who she claims to be and if she can somehow lead him to Ava.

Other Releases

 

Code of Valor by Lynette Eason

Code of Valor is the third book in Lynette Eason’s Blue Justice series, coming after Oath of Honor and Called to Protect.

 

Under the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson and Kimberly Woodhouse

Under the Midnight Sun is the third book in Tracie and Kimberly’s The Heart of Alaska series, coming after In the Shadow of Denali and Out of the Ashes.

 

In the Shadow of Croft Towers by Abigail Wilson

In the Shadow of Croft Towers is a stand-alone novel.

 

The Curse of Misty Wayfair by Jaime Jo Wright

The Curse of Misty Wayfair is a stand-alone novel.

I hope at least one of these new novels has caught your eye! I’ve already read Flights of Fancy and it was wonderful, so I highly recommend that one if you can’t decide. Either way, I hope you check out them all!

Happy January and happy reading!

Mackenzie Carol

To see where I’m linking up, check out my Where I Party page.

Interested in any of these titles? Just click on the coral-colored links.

All credit for the italicized synopses goes to each author and their respective publishers.