Who knew my sister and I would find encouragement in the presence of a female cardinal outside our dad’s hospice room window? While the dove cooed and a deer meandered through the woods, a redbird cocked her head inquisitively as she peered inside the window. In an instant, she darted to a nearby tree. Silence filled the room as Dad grew weaker. My sister and I held his hand, expressed our love for the amazing father he’d been to us, and exchanged glances. In total peace, and with one last breath, he departed this earth. With tear-filled eyes, we glanced… 

The Moretti Trilogy: Promises Unbroken, Volume One Strap on your running shoes and get ready for this fast-paced, energy-filled inspirational historical suspense unlike any I’ve ever read—a definite page-turner. The characters are well-rounded and relentless in their search for Mae Ashton’s sister, who disappeared two years ago. The detailed plot is intense, with barely a moment to breathe. After finding a crumpled photo of her sister with a man’s name scribbled on the back, Mae breaks off her engagement with Davis Everleigh and leaves her parent’s peaceful farm in Georgia to go to the big city of New York for… 

The suspense escalates with each scene in this action-packed romantic suspense novel. The characters are well-rounded, and both face internal and external challenges throughout the story. Tension builds between the hero and heroine realistically. Pacing is steady and rising to the end. Jack Tanner, Sheriff’s Detective of Grayback County, kicks into search and rescue mode after a plane crash in the Rocky Mountain National Forest. He peers over a five-hundred-foot cliff with his binoculars and spots a body below. Who but his old flame, US Forest Service Special Agent Terra Connors, would show up and join the investigation? Jack regrets… 

I loved this suspenseful, action-packed novel by Susan Sleeman. She throws in the unexpected when someone attacks her heroine, FBI Special Agent Addison Leigh. Addison runs off the road and crashes, leaving her with no memory of her investigation, her co-workers, or her estranged husband, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mack Jordan. Mack receives a call about Addison’s wreck. He leaves the case he’s working on in the hands of his co-workers to be by her side and protect her. He’s never quit loving her, but PTSD from his military days forced him to distance himself for her own protection. He longs…