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Christian Fiction March 2024
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| All My Secrets by Lynn AustinWhen businessman Arthur Stanhope III dies and leaves his fortune to a male relation, his widow, Sylvia, seeks a wealthy husband for their 19-year-old daughter, Adelaide, in the hope of maintaining their opulent Gilded Age lifestyle. But Junietta, Sylvia's mother-in-law and Adelaide's grandmother, who understands the price of society's approval, encourages Adelaide to follow her heart. Read-alikes: Susan May Warren's Daughters of Fortune series |
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The Best Summer of Our Lives by Rachel HauckWhen Summer's music career crumbles, she returns to the place where secrets, wounds, and fears destroyed her closest friendships. It will take a reckoning with her past and the friends she lost to help her gain the closure she needs to move forward.
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A Love Discovered by Tracie PetersonMarybeth and Edward are compelled by their circumstances to marry as they trek west to the newly formed railroad town of Cheyenne. But life in Cheyenne is fraught with danger, and they find that they need each other more than ever. Despite the trials they face, will happiness await them in this arrangement of convenience?
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The Mercy Tree by Sharlene MacLarenA romance novel set in 1955 in Michigan featuring a respected pastor who receives an unsettling letter from a missionary in Japan that forces him, his family, and his congregation to tackle tough questions about faith and redemption.
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Lady of Disguise by Melanie DickersonA retelling set in medieval England in which a young maiden undergoes a journey to save her sister and herself. Will the chivalrous knight, Sir Charles, help her find the treasure she seeks before her uncle can marry her off?
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| The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura FrantzForcibly removed from her Acadian home by British soldiers during Le Grand Dérangement, seamstress Sylvie Galant finds safe haven in Virginia. There, she encounters Will "Le Loup" Blackburn, the former British Ranger who played a role in her family's displacement, and who now wishes to make amends. Read-alike: Jocelyn Green's Between Two Shores. |
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Lost and Found by Suzanne Woods FisherWhile scouting out a possible new church in Tennessee, Micah Weaver uses this opportunity to find the woman who broke his heart, but soon discovers what you're looking for isn't always what you find, and that true love has been right in front of him the whole time.
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| The American Queen by Vanessa MillerIn 1865, formerly enslaved Louella Bobo and her pastor husband, William, leave Mississippi with a group of other newly free people and settle in North Carolina, where they found a utopian community known as The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Inspired by true events, this novel illuminates a fascinating chapter of Black history. |
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Books You Might Have Missed
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The Promise of Easter by Marta PerryWhen the man she deemed responsible for her brother's death returns to the Amish community, Anna, in regular contact with him as he works on their farm, is introduced to a man far different than the boy she knew before and discovers forgiveness is freedom—and maybe forever after.
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| In the Shadow of the River by Ann H. GabhartTwenty-year-old Jacci Reed loves her life aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, her grandfather's Ohio River showboat. But when long-buried family secrets threaten everyone on board, Jacci, with the help of handsome actor Gabe Kingston, must seek the truth about her own, barely remembered past. An atmospheric setting full of well-researched historical details enhances this uplifting novel by the author of When the Meadow Blooms. |
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| The Heirloom by Beverly LewisUnsure of what her future holds, 19-year-old Clara Bender visits her widowed great-aunt, Ella May Zook, in Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania and bonds with the older woman as they work together to restore an antique wedding quilt. Although this prequel to The Shunning stands easily on its own, readers of Beverly Lewis' other Heritage of Lancaster County books will recognize a number of series characters. |
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| What Happens Next by Christina Suzann NelsonFaith Byrne's podcast What Happens Next features stories of people moving on with their lives after tragedy -- something she herself has not been able to do since the disappearance of Heather, her childhood best friend. When Heather's sister asks Faith to investigate Heather's disappearance for the podcast, Faith revisits the past and finds closure along with new possibilities for the future. Read-alikes: Erin Bartels' The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water and Kim Vogel Sawyer's Bringing Maggie Home |
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| The Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass by Katie PownerDecades after he left, Pete Ryman returns to his hometown of Sleeping Grass, Montana, where his self-imposed solitude is shattered by the unexpected arrival of his long-lost sister and her young son. Meanwhile, elderly Wilma Jacobsen seeks forgiveness for her role in separating the siblings. This novel by the author of The Sowing Season tells a moving story about a prodigal son and second chances. You might also like: Charles Martin's Long Way Gone and Linda MacKillop's The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon. |
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| The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo WrightIn 1870, orphan Daisy François becomes a housemaid at Castle Moreau, home of reclusive Gothic novelist Ora Tremblay, where she stumbles upon a mystery. In the present day, home organizer Cleo Clemmons arrives at the Castle to help its elderly inhabitant with a hoarding issue and uncovers its chilling secrets. Redolent with eerie Gothic atmosphere, this quietly suspenseful novel features Christy Award-winning author Jaime Jo Wright's signature blend of intrigue and inspiration. |
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Castle on the Riseby Kristy CambronWhen Laine Forrester travels to France to attend her longtime friend's vineyard wedding, she expects to find a bride on the brink of a fairy-tale life. But after a series of unforeseen setbacks, it seems the storybook life Laine had imagined for her friend is suddenly crumbling before her eyes. With hopes of resurrecting a happy ending for one of them, Laine throws support behind her friend and agrees to accompany the couple to the groom's family home in Ireland, where the merging of a mysterious inheritance, long-buried wounds, and a fractured family set out to upend the trip from the start.
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Old Rugged Cross by Catherine Ritch GuessA woman finds Christ in the sands of Findlay, Ohio. Based upon the actual work of sculptor Roger Powell beginning the day after Palm Sunday and finished by Good Friday.
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