Life’s detours can be the most important steps we’re meant to make.
Injured and stranded, hiker Quinn McAlister is stuck recovering in Laurel Cove, North Carolina. The quiet mountain town and its polite residents are a far cry from the stifling home and painful disappointments back in Maine. When her handsome rescuer offers her a place to stay, she’s faced with coming to terms with her past and putting faith, for once, in a hopeful future.
Camp director Eli Moreland has devoted his adult life to serving others. The summer takes an unexpected turn when the beautiful hiker staying in one of the cabins sparks a deep desire for more. Giving her advice about faith comes easy. What’s hard is deciding if he’s ready to reopen his heart to love.
Being lost is worth the pain when being found is so sweet.

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The Laurel Cove Romance Series takes readers to Laurel Cove, NC—a charming, quiet fictional town tucked into the cozy Blue Ridge Mountains. The people of Laurel Cove are friendly and welcoming, the pace is slow and peaceful, and the scenery is breathtaking. It’s the perfect place for inspiration to strike and love to take hold.
 
The series also includes Someplace Familiar (Book 1) and Suddenly Forever (Book 2). The novels in this series are completely stand-alone and can be read in any order. Readers will recognize a few supporting characters shared between the stories, but it is not necessary to have read the others before Someone Found (Book 3). The fourth and final novel in the series is set to release in early 2022.

Teresa Tysinger is an author of Southern contemporary romance inspired by grace. She writes on the fringes of being a wife, mom, and full-time communications professional. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, the Association for Women in Communications, and the Religion Communicators Council. She’s an introverted Enneagram 4 (if you know, you know) and loves coffee, traveling, and almost every genre of music. Born in Hawaii, raised in Florida, and educated in North Carolina, she now resides in Texas with her husband, daughter, and dog.

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Teresa Tysinger has written a sweet contemporary romance novel in her story Someone Found.  This story takes place in a small town in North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  This beautiful backdrop adds to the story of hiker Quinn McAlister and and spiritual summer camp director Eli Mooreland.  Tysinger does a lovely job of intertwining Quinn and Eli’s stories.  Readers will be drawn to them because of their realistic and relatable characteristics and life experiences.  This is an inspiring story about discovering oneself and opening oneself up to falling in love.  A heart-warming and charming story, readers will love this read from cover to cover.

Genre: contemporary, romance, Christian
Publisher: Good Day Publishing
Publication date: June 8, 2021
Number of pages: 222

Other books in the series:
1-Someplace Familiar
2-Suddenly Forever

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​Brielle Adebayo is fully content teaching at a New York City public school and taking annual summer vacations with her mother to Martha’s Vineyard. But everything changes when her mom drops the mother of all bombshells—Brielle is a princess in the kingdom of Oloro Ilé, Africa, and she must immediately assume her royal position, since the health of her grandfather, King Tiwa Jimoh Adebayo, is failing.
Distraught by her mother’s betrayal, Brielle is further left spinning when the Oloro Ilé Royal Council brings up an old edict that states she must marry before assuming the throne or the crown will be passed to another. Uncertain who to choose from the council’s list of bachelors, she struggles with the decision along with the weight of her new role in a new country. With her world totally shaken, she must take a chance on love and brave the perils a wrong decision may bring.

Toni Shiloh is a wife, mom, and multi-published Christian contemporary romance author. She writes to bring God glory and to learn more about His goodness. Her novels, Grace Restored, was a 2019 Holt Medallion finalist, Risking Love a 2020 Selah Award finalist, and The Truth About Fame a 2021 Holt Medallion finalist.
A member of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and of the Virginia Chapter, Toni seeks to encourage authors in the writing industry. She loves connecting with readers and authors alike via social media. You can learn more about her writing at http://tonishiloh.com.

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​How can a meek wallflower help a returning war hero whose dreams are plunged into darkness?

Mary Bloomfield has no illusions. Her chances for matrimony have long since passed her by. Still, her circumstances are pleasant enough, especially now that she has found purpose in assisting her father with his medical practice in England's beautiful Lake District. Even without love, it's a peaceful life.

That is until Adam Edgerton returns to the sleepy district. This decorated war hero did not arrive home to acclaim and rest, but to a new battle against the repercussions of an insidious disease. Mary's caring nature cannot stand to see someone suffer--but how can she help this man see any brightness in his future when he's plunged into melancholic darkness, his dreams laid waste by his condition?

Adam wants no charity, but he's also no coward. If this gentle woman can work hard, how can he do less? Together they struggle to find a way forward for him. Frustration and antipathy slowly develop into friendship and esteem. Then a summer storm atop a mountain peak leads to scandal--and both Mary and Adam must search the depths of their closed hearts for answers if they hope to find any future path with happiness at its end.

Best-selling author Carolyn Miller is back with a fresh series that will not only thrill readers eager for more of her work, but bring in new fans looking for beautiful writing, fascinating research, deftly woven love stories, and real faith lived out in the Regency period.

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Carolyn Miller is an inspirational romance author who lives in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, with her husband and four children.
A longtime lover of romance, especially that of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer’s Regency era, Carolyn holds a BA in English literature and loves drawing readers into fictional worlds that show the truth of God’s grace in our lives. She enjoys music, films, gardens, art, travel, and food.

Miller’s novels have won a number of RWA and ACFW contests. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Australasian Christian Writers. ​

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arolyn Miller has written a Regency Romance that readers will absolutely adore.  This story is of a Mary, a woman everyone assumes is more than happy to be a spinster and doesn’t want to be a wife and mother.  But more than anything, Mary just wants to be accepted as herself.  This makes her easy to relate to, because who doesn’t want to be accepted as themselves.  And then there is Adam, he’s a war hero who has inherited his father’s farm.  But due to a debilitating war injury, he is struggling to deal with life.  This beautiful story brings these two struggling characters together and they form a friendship and eventually a sweet romance.  And entwined in it all, this story shows their faith in God that life will work out. This story will warm the hearts of readers, causing them to fall in love with the easily relatable characters and root for them as they lean on God and figure out how to move forward in life.  A wonderful Regency romance that readers will adore.

Genre: historical, romance, regency
Publisher: Kregel
Publication date: May 18, 2021
Number of pages: 320

Other books in the series:
2-Midnight’s Budding Morrow (coming 2022)
3-Dawn’s Untrodden Green (coming 2023)

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​Always a Wedding Planner --
Genre: Contemporary romance anthology
Release date: June 1st  
Love Is Only Business for 4 Wedding Planners
Discover how keeping secrets from each other threatens four women’s friendships, wedding business, and own ability to find love in Loveland, Colorado.
Business partners Felicity Anderson, the cake baker; Kiki Bell, the seamstress; Cassie Blackthorn, the coordinator; and Chef Saffron Fare are best of friends in a town that is a romantic wedding destination for many couples—who work together at Weddings by Design to make every bride’s special day perfect. Could each falling into their own romance be the key to working out their differences and learning to trust each other—and God—with their futures?

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R.L. ASHLY is a master seamstress with a Master of Arts degree in Literature (May, 2019). She hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Literature in the near future. A mother and grandmother, she is active in her local writing community, never says never to a home improvement task, and strives to one day write the Great American Novel. 
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RL Ashly writes on the run. She enjoys a good mystery with a complicated plot. Iced tea is her beverage of choice. Hemmed In is her first traditionally published novel.

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​Leeann Betts writes contemporary romantic suspense, while her real-life persona, Donna Schlachter, pens historical romantic suspense. Together she and Donna have published more than 30 novellas and full-length novels.

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Toni Shiloh is a wife, mom, and Christian fiction writer. Once she understood the powerful saving grace thanks to the love of Christ, she was moved to honor her Savior. She writes to bring Him glory and to learn more about His goodness.​

​DAVALYNN SPENCER is a Publisher’s Weekly and ECPA bestselling author with novellas in three Barbour collections, The 12 Brides of Christmas, The 12 Brides of Summer, and The Cowboy’s Bride. She won the Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Inspirational Western Fiction and is the author of ten additional titles, both contemporary and historical. She blogs monthly for Christian Authors Network, Heroes, Heroines & History, contributes to the American Christian Fiction blog, and writes her own weekly inspirational blog. She appears on an area radio broadcast, Write Time Radio, and teaches writing workshops when not wrangling Blue the Cowdog and mouse detectors Annie and Oakley.

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Toni Shiloh “Going virtual”
More often than naught, my books are set in a place I’ve never been to. Or even better, I create a fictional world I can get lost in. When I wrote Finally A Sweetheart, it was with the understanding that the setting would be in Loveland, Colorado.
Just so you know, the closets I’ve probably been to Loveland was driving through the state on a road trip. I vaguely remember stopping at a gas station in Aspen and seeing mountains. For the most part, I slept (what I do on most road trips). So for the Always a Wedding Planner collection I had to go virtual. I pulled up Google maps and zoomed in until the “browse street images” feature popped up, AKA, the orange man.
I also did a lot of internet search for people who had visited. I also looked at pictures on Pinterest. All in all, I hope I did the setting justice for those of you who actually live there. If not, my sincerest apologies from a virtual traveler.
 
RL Ashly
Loveland, Colorado is a beautiful town. With its backdrop against the Rocky Mountains, it’s the ideal place for a romance novel. After all, it’s the land of love and there’s no better place for a single seamstress to meet a confirmed bachelor-till-the rapture. The Weddings by Design office is set in the downtown area and Kiki enjoyed her colleagues and job. Working with her best friends had its perks. That is until the new office manager moves Kiki’s sewing zone to the garage. Her new work area is a source of conflict in the story.
As the descendent of a long line of farmers, placing my characters in a rural setting was something that appealed to me. Kiki Bell inherited her late aunt and uncle’s farm. With the help of her niece and nephew, her family commenced with the daunting task of decluttering the house and outbuildings in hopes of turning the place into a wedding venue.
Bing Kelley’s farm is located across the road. He keeps his place in pristine shape. Perhaps it is a sign he has too much time on his hands. Living as neighbors, the setting is used to aid Kiki and Bing’s relationship.
 
Leeann Betts
The idea for The Worst-Kept Secret is sort of autobiographical, in that I’m an introvert and my hubby is an extrovert. I can see that this combination works in our marriage, because I’m the one who builds relationships with people we meet through getting comfortable enough to talk to them by asking questions, while hubby does the meeting and introductions. I suspected we weren’t unique in our personality types, so decided to try this pairing in a story.
A good romance needs romantic tension, and one of the best ways is if each character has a secret they’re trying to keep from the love interest and from others. Since this is a faith-based book, I didn’t want that secret to be something so serious as to call into question their salvation, so I based the secrets on struggles they were already having in their own lives.
I think a good romance also needs a few light moments. From the disastrous limo interview, to the puking pastor, to the coffee debacle, and even the car accident, while each of these were serious moments, I hoped to create an atmosphere of “what more could go wrong?” for both the reader and the characters.
 
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Pronounced “LOVE-lund” rather than “Love-LAND” by locals, the “Sweetheart City” snugs against the Front Range at the mouth of the Big Thompson River in Northern Colorado. The river originates in Rocky Mountain National Park and courses through Estes Park before tumbling down to the eastern plains. The area is rich in ranches and farmland, the perfect setting for confirmed bachelor, Ty Ellicott, who carries on the family’s rope-making business following the death of his parents and brother in a single engine plane crash.
 
Ellicott Ropes is home to a sprawling ranch house, barn, and roping arena. A long rope barn, pastures, pond, and cottonwood trees create an idyllic setting for the heart-broken cowboy who keeps his mind off his pain by keeping that mind busy.
 
Saffron (Ronnie) Fare grew up in Loveland, the daughter of schoolteachers. She is more familiar with city life and acquainted with the tree-lined streets of established neighborhoods, small downtown businesses, and outlying shopping centers. She had no desire to leave her famous hometown, and after culinary school bought a quaint yet rundown Victorian home on one of those shady streets. With a small-business loan, she invested in a commercial kitchen, an expense that left precious little for the rest of the house, and the paint and gingerbread trim on her classic home bear testimony to neglect as well as age.

She's a princess doubting the rules of royalty. He's the bodyguard tasked with keeping her in line. Will a relationship destroy both of their goals?


Princess Emma Somerset struggles to find purpose and fulfillment in her life. With her brother and cousins all married and in their new roles, she’s the only one left at the palace. When Queen Nicolette, her aunt, asks Emma to undertake a trip to the north as a good-will ambassador, she agrees, despite her lack of experience.

Ryan Sterling is a new protection officer for the royal house of Durham. He has aspirations for a high-profile assignment, but when Princess Emma’s long-time female bodyguard is injured a week before departure, he’s called to replace her. Now he’s stuck babysitting a spoiled princess instead of proving his worth to advance his career.

After floods strand Emma and Ryan in the remote countryside during the trip, their fledgling friendship slowly turns into something more. But is a new relationship between them doomed to fail when they return to the palace?

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Author Lucinda Whitney has written an enthralling story in her princess and bodyguard romance.  From the very beginning, readers will not want to put down this cute and sweet romance!  This is a stand alone story, but continues the tale of the royal Somerset family.  A heart-warming story with mishaps and romance between a princess and her body guard.  Readers could relate reading this story to that of watching a Hallmark movie.  It’s a clean romance with a chemistry filled swoony happily ever after that will not disappoint.  Readers will thoroughly enjoy this charming sweet romance.

Genre: contemporary, romance
Publisher: Lange House Press
Publication date: May 13, 2021
Number of pages: 280

Other books in the series:
1-Serving the Prince
2-Rescuing the Prince

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Title: Danger on the Loch
Author: Paige Edwards
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Release Date: April 5, 2021
Genre: Clean, Romantic Suspense
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Raised by a cold and distant mother, photographer Paisley Clark has spent her life daydreaming about the father she doesn’t remember. Paisley’s dream turns to reality when a DNA test brings her in contact with the mysterious man. With her financial situation a disaster and her childhood friend James Pressley-Coombes working across the pond in Scotland, Paisley is emboldened to accept her father’s invitation to visit him.
She arrives in the Highlands only to discover that she isn’t Paisley Clark at all but a titled lady, the daughter of a Scottish duke. Despite the warm welcome and the comfort of James’s presence, dangerous undercurrents surround Castle Rannoch, her father’s estate. Overwhelmed, Paisley takes refuge in her camera and James’s steady presence to provide a sense of normalcy in her rags-to-riches transformation. But her once-easy relationship with James is changing, deepening beyond friendship in a surprising twist of events. Before they have time to examine their feelings, Paisley inadvertently captures a shocking image in one of her photographs—a picture worth killing for.

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In her novel, Danger on the Loch, author Paige Edwards whisk readers off to the Scottish Highlands in this fabulous romantic suspense story.  A suspense and danger filled romance, this story will keep readers on the edge of their toes.  This story is about the reuniting of a father, who happens to be a Scottish Duke, and daughter.  It’s about finding the true meaning of family. This story also has a friends to lovers romance that readers will thoroughly enjoy.  The element of suspense comes into play with someone working for the Duke embezzling money and sending it to a terrorist group in the middle east.  This story will keep readers at the edge of their seats with the suspense, and have them swooning with the romance.  Although a stand alone novel, this story has two companion novels that readers would enjoy as well, Catherine’s Intrigue and Deadly by Design.  Readers will not want to miss this or the other connecting stories.

Genre: contemporary, romance, suspense, mystery, Christian
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Publication date: April 5, 2021
Number of pages: 296

Other books in the series:
1-Catherine’s Intrigue
2-Deadly by Design

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How far can love bend before it breaks?
Josie Norris became an instant mommy when her twin sister Nadine handed over her newborn son and vanished. What Josie saw as a temporary arrangement grew into a mother-son bond too deep to uproot. But with her irrational sister threatening to steal him back, Josie has been living the last few years with Kennedy in hiding, afraid to go home.

When Aunt Libby—the only person who knows the truth about Kennedy—suffers a traumatic head injury, Josie rushes to her McKenzie River home to help Gram care for the woman who raised her. But not only is Libby’s injury causing family secrets to spill, it’s forcing Josie to see the women in her life in a new light.

Will—a ranger who Kennedy adores and who Josie is determined not to—is desperate to help the woman who has stolen his affections. But can Josie ever truly be authentic with the man she loves? With her son’s fate hanging in the balance, she is faced with the choice to risk everything she loves in order to bridge the most impossible gulfs.

In this story of mothers, daughters, and sisters, Josie must find the grace to forgive people for not being who she needed them to be…and the courage to surrender her fears to the God who has never once left her side.

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Camille Eide writes more than a romance with her tender tales of love, faith, and family for those who enjoy inspirational romance and women's fiction. Her novel, The Memoir of Johnny Devine, was awarded 5 Gold Stars/Top Pick, Best Inspirational Romance, & the December Seal of Excellence from RT Book Reviews, and Oregon Christian Writers' Best Historical Fiction.

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Camille Eide has written a beautiful, poignant, and soul searching story of secrets, abandonment, and mental illness, all of which readers can associate with.  Everyone’s story is different, including the lives of the twins in this touching story.  Once best friends, they go down very different paths in life and it’s their journey of coming back together.  Although the story deals with some tough issues,  Eide handles them in such a way that readers will connect and hope for a happy ending.  From the turn of each page, this story has twists and turns that will cause readers to wonder if the book really will have a happy ending, or if the ensign will be devastating.  Eide has written a story that evokes readers to think about their own lives and consider what matters most.  This is am intirculty woven story that will touch readers to the core.

Genre: Christian, Contemporary Women's Fiction w/ Romance
Publisher: WhiteFire Publishing
Publication date: April 15, 2021
Number of pages: 285

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​This book represents a concerted effort to follow the prompting that I have been given to encourage Latter-day Saint parents in filling their many critical responsibilities with confidence. I hope to help parents better utilize the tools and knowledge we have been given by Christ to prepare their children for a faithful future. Youth are best taught by the daily interaction of their parents. Youth need to see better examples of how their place in God's Kingdom can fit them personally. Youth need to better understand how temple covenants benefit their daily life. Learning these truths will help them fulfill critical roles as problem-solvers, teachers and gatherers in the future. The Gathering of Israel will not simply be gifted. It will be brought about by the increased capacity of the youth.

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My Savior has taught me not to fear. From a young age, he promised me I did not need to fear loneliness because I was baptized into a church fellowship. I now know I do not need to fear inadequacy because I can repent, again and again. I do not need to fear worthlessness because of the destiny described in my temple experience. I do not need to fear losing my way because the Holy Ghost, my prophet, and the scriptures guide my steps.

I have served as a youth leader almost every year of my adult life. As a stake Young Women president and parent of three teenage daughters, I felt an urgent responsibility to find better answers to teenagers' reoccurring questions. I felt I needed to find a better way to prepare them for a future that can be bright, but unpredictable. How can we build a consistent faith of action like Nephi's, Mary's, Daniel's or Esther's? What did they know that helped them do what they did? I have been looking for answers to these questions so it can be helpful to my children and to yours.

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In her book, Spiritual Resilience, Sharla Goettl relates personal spiritual resilience to that of Nephi from the Book of Mormon.  From her own experiences working with youth, she teaches how youth can better prepare and become spiritually resilient.  The scriptural references to Nephi and his life and family are inspiring and relatable, bringing the Book of Mormon to life, while also teaching the youth in a way they can understand.  Although this book is for youth, it is an excellent book that other older readers will enjoy as well.   

Genre: non-fiction, faith, LDS
Publisher: CastorAmera Publishing
Publication date: April 13, 2021
Number of pages: 182

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What would you do if you finally found Mr. Right…in the wrong time?
Maddie Palmer is done with dating. Internet matchmaking landed her one dud after another. Tired, frustrated, and finished with love, Maddie stays the night at a quirky Victorian bed and breakfast on the eve of her grandparents’ sixty-fifth wedding anniversary. When she suddenly wakes up in 1956, she gets the unexpected chance to witness her grandparents’ fairy tale love unfold and finally learn the secret to finding “the one.” But what is she going to do when she meets her own Mr. Right—only to discover he’s Mr. Wrong Time?
Nathanial Hall is set on one mission. Pass his training exam and join the Hurricane Hunters at Keesler Air Force Base. When he mysteriously finds himself on base sixty-five years too early, there can only be one explanation. He has to save the crew destined to die in Hurricane Flossy. But when a beautiful singer snags his heart and derails his carefully planned life, he has to decide if staying in the past is worth risking his entire future.

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Title: Begotten
Series: The Gifted Trilogy #1
Author: Lisa T. Bergren
Publisher: BCG Press
Release Date: April 26, 2021
Genre: Christian, Supernatural Suspense

Begotten is an edited, new edition of a novel previously released in 2006, The Begotten.
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At the height of the Inquisition, a secret half a millennium old is about to be exposed—a lost letter believed to have been written by Saint Paul but never part of the Christian canon. The letter speaks of men and women—the Gifted—with profound spiritual gifts that will strike fear in the heart of a Church dedicated to maintaining power. Now the letter has surfaced and the Gifted are gathering. But so are their enemies…

In her story Begotten, author Lisa T. Bergren has written an intriguing fantasy story that also intertwines the Christian faith.  The story is told from multiple viewpoints, making it hard to get into the story, and character development was lacking.  The premise of the story was promising, but just didn’t seem to pan out.  If readers stick with the story though, it is both a suspenseful and spiritual journey.  The first book in the series, Begotten sets readers up to dive into the next two books of the trilogy.

​Genre: historical, fantasy, Christian
Publisher: BCG Press
Publication date: April 26, 2021
Number of pages: 400

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