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…
Hours to Kill by Susan Sleeman
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…
April 2021 New Releases
More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: Bookshop by the Sea by Denise Hunter — It’s finally time for Sophie Lawson to follow her own pursuits. Brother Seth has a new job, and sister Jenna is set to marry her college beau in Piper’s Cove. But the destination wedding reunites Sophie with best man Aiden Maddox, her high school sweetheart who left her without a backward glance. When an advancing hurricane strands Aiden in Piper’s Cove after the wedding, he finds the hotels booked to capacity and has to ask…
When He Broke the Bread
With Easter upon us, what a better time to reflect on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ? Can you imagine what it was like for the disciples as they sat around the table visiting with Jesus and their shock when he said one would betray Him and another would deny him? Several years ago, I imagined the disciples sitting around the table laughing, talking, eating, and having an enjoyable evening with Jesus. In my twentieth-century mind, I could see Jesus stand up and tap his spoon against a glass to get everyone’s attention. All heads turned his direction as…
The Importance of a Pause
Life is full of busyness. No one has time for themselves. What does it all mean, anyway? Slow down, take a moment… hit the pause button. Chris Maxwell, www.chrismaxwell.me, a friend of mine, has written several pausing books. Why? Because without a pause, we flutter through life being who we think everyone wants us to be or trying to be someone we’re not or because we don’t think we have the time to be still. In Chris’s book, Pause for Moms: Finding Rest in a too Busy World, I wrote a few paragraphs about my treadmill life. Like a hamster…