Author: Erin Bartels Publisher: Revell Release Date: March 26, 2024 Rating: 5 out of 5. Another great story from the pen of Erin Bartels! Viviana must continually change her name and appearance to keep one step ahead of the authorities.  After pretending to be a man, she is able to join a war effort with her twin brother, but during one of the battles, an accident occurs, and her brother is killed, and she is blamed for the murder after she is exposed as a woman.  Working across Europe by yourself in 1879 is hard enough but finding work and a place to hide makes it worse.  Wh ..read more

Author: Carrie Turansky Publisher: Bethany House Publishing Release Date: September 26, 2023 Rating: 4 out of 5. A historical romance that will take readers on a magical adventure. Gwen Morris is an art historian traveling to England to help appraise paintings for an old friend. She goes to Longdale Manor and meets David Bradford, grandson of the Manor’s owner, who wants to turn it into a hotel. Over a century earlier, Charlotte Harper finds secrets that she records in a journal later found by Gwen and ties these characters together through time. This is a typical Turansky book, full of fai ..read more

Author: Jaime Jo Wright Publisher: Bethany House Release Date: October 10, 2023 Rating: 5 out of 5. This might just be Jaime Jo Wright’s best book yet. I tend to say this about the last several of her books, but she does get better with each novel! In 1915, Barlowe Theater was under construction and takes the life of Greta Mercy’s oldest brother. Greta has been left in charge of her siblings after the death of her parents. Now her youngest brother has gone missing after he and friends break into Barlowe theater and Greta must work with the local police to find the secrets of the theater. De ..read more

Author: Gabrielle Meyer Series: Timeless #2 Publisher: Bethany House Release Date: May 2, 2023 Rating: 5 out of 5. A very different historical romance that was entertaining and captivating. Maggie Hollingsworth is not your typical girl, she is able to live three separate lives at once, 1861 in Washington D.C., 1941 in Pearl Harbor and 2001 in D.C.  Every night she goes to sleep she wakes up at a different time period, which continues until she turns twenty-one when she will have to pick two of the lives to give up along with everyone she knows in those timelines. Each timeline has a di ..read more

Author: Jaime Jo Wright Publisher: Bethany House Release Date: April 4, 2023 Rating: 5 out of 5. Another fantastic suspense book from one of the best in Christian fiction. Jaime Jo Wright has out done herself with The Vanishing at Castle Moreau! Set in two timelines, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau starts in 1870 with Daisy Francois, an orphan who goes to Castle Moreau as a housemaid running from her past. The castle is owned by a very peculiar woman who writes gothic novels and keeps many secrets in her estate, and local legend has girls form the area disappearing in the vicinity of Castle ..read more

Author: Jaime Jo Wright Publisher: Bethany House Release Date: November 21, 2017 Rating: 5 out of 5. A creepy fantastic mystery that is classic Jaime Jo Wright! Kaine Prescott has been working to get over her husband’s death; she has almost given up on getting the police to believe it wasn’t just an accident while moving across the country. She buys an old, abandoned house without visiting it in her grandparent’s hometown. Wanting a fresh start, she sets about trying to make the house into a home when eerie things start happening and the house’s past comes back to haunt her. With help from ..read more

Author: Jaime Jo Wright Publisher: Bethany House Release Date: October 11, 2022 Rating: 5 out of 5. What’s better than a new Jaime Jo Wright book? How about a new mystery releasing right before Halloween!!! Perliett Van Hilton is a healer; it’s 1910 in Michigan and her healing practices leave the local doctor frustrated. She has grown up in an unconventional household with her mother working as a spiritualist. Perliett ends up the target of a superstitious killer and to avoid the killer she must seek help from the local doctor who doesn’t care for her and a newcomer to town. Jump to Present ..read more

Author: Kelli Stuart Publisher: Revell Release Date: April 5, 2022 Rating: 5 out of 5. One of the best time-slip novels of the year!  This should be on your summer reading list! Karl Faberge has been charged with creating some of the most memorable sculptors during his time, many that have become known as the Faberge Eggs, which were produced for the Russian Tsar family during the late 1800s and early 1900s.  But when Karl began to see the effect of the Tsar’s rule over Russia, he created one egg that hardly anyone knew about.  The secret keeper of this egg was none other tha ..read more

Author: Cathy Gohlke Publisher: Tyndale Release Date: April 5, 2022 Rating: 5 out of 5. Characters from Night Bird Calling return for a new adventure set between two wars! Old houses always hold secrets and Gardens Gate is no exception.  After a storm damages the roof, a hidden room is discovered by Celia Percy and her younger brother.  With civil war era clothing and documents, they discover that this room was once used to hide slaves making their way along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, which is completely unexpected knowing that the ancestors were slave ..read more

Author: Jaime Jo Wright Publisher: Bethany House Release Date: April 5, 2022 Rating: 5 out of 5. Wow! Wow! Wow! Jaime Jo Wright has outdone herself! The Souls of Lost Lake pulled me in deeper than the waters of Lost Lake with a magnificent story that will stay with me long after the last page. Wren Blythe has a complicated life. She lives with her father, working ministry at a youth camp in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She joins in the search for a little girl who has gone missing in the area causing rumors of decades old murderess, Ava Coons, could be involved. In the 1930s, Ava Coons come ..read more