In Winterflight, Joseph Bayly imagines an America not too many years in the future. An America that seems perfect on the surface, but whose ethical underpinnings have totally collapsed. An America where abortion is the rule for imperfect fetuses and euthanasia is mandatory at age 75. Jon and Grace Stanton’s allegiance to God is about to be put to the ultimate test in this future society. As they struggle to protect two members of their family from the law of the land, they must rely on each other and their faith as they never have before.
Full of hard-won wisdom and truth, The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans is a compelling and inspiring novel about hope, healing, grace, and the meaning of life. Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, once-successful advertising executive Alan Christoffersen has left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. He is walking from Seattle to Key West, carrying only a backpack to the farthest destination on his map. Now almost halfway through his trek, Alan sets out to walk the nearly 1,000 miles between South Dakota and St. Louis, but it’s the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning: a mysterious woman who follows Alan’s walk for close to a hundred miles, the ghost hunter searching graveyards for his wife, and the elderly Polish man who gives Alan a ride and shares a story that Alan will never forget.
In Dark Pursuit by Brandilyn Collins, novelist Darell Brooke is struggling to pick up the pieces after an auto accident derailed his career. Two years later, reclusive and bitter, he only wants one thing - to plot a new novel and regain his reputation. Kaitlan Sering, his twenty two year old granddaughter, is rebuilding her life after struggling with addiction; but in Kaitlan’s town two women have been murdered, and she is about to discover a third. Even worse, she realizes the culprit is her boyfriend, who is also the police chief’s son. Desperate, Kaitlan flees to her estranged grandfather and begs for his help. Surely he’ll devise a plan to trap the murderer… but can Darell’s muddled mind do it?
Wise-cracking Gil Beckman has kept his sense of humor. It’s a good thing too, considering his humbling career move from homicide detective to security guard in a California theme park. Nothing exciting happens on the graveyard shift, at least that’s what he used to think - until a chance discovery in the back of a ride changes his life forever. A heinous crime has been committed, and Gil wants to know why. With few clues and no apparent motive, he sets off on his own fast-paced investigation. So what if the police have already arrested someone? So what if his superiors want him to back off? Gil knows he’s on the right trail. And he won’t stop until he uncovers the guilty party in Suspended Animation by W.E. Davis.
Reporter Christine McKay is captivated and disturbed by the headline “Teenager Murdered in Arizona Desert” in the mystery Sedona Storm by Barbara Scott and Carrie Younce. The death appears to be linked to cult rituals, and similar reports have recently appeared in England and Peru. An authority on the occult and Satanism, Christine’s search for the truth leads her to Sedona, Arizona, a picturesque artist colony and center of New Age activity. With the help of John Delarosa, an artist and former New Ager, she follows a trail of clues that implicate influential members of the community. But Christine, a skeptic and an agnostic, is not prepared for the terrifying evil that surrounds her investigation. As she gets closer to the truth, she places herself in peril, both physically and spiritually. Can Christine uncover the evil forces behind the ritual murders before darkness destroys her very soul?
Every morning Dr. Spencer Reston, dream research scientist on the space station Gotham, woke up exhausted. His head felt like an overripe cantaloupe ready to burst, and he had the nagging feeling something terrible was about to happen. Only later, with all of civilization hanging in the balance, does Spencer find out that he has become a vital link in a cosmic coup masterminded by a mysterious creature known as the Dream Thief. This is science fiction on an epic scale, yet grounded in a Christian worldview. Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead has it all: fast-paced adventure, exotic off-world settings, wonderful character development, cliff-hanging suspense, an epic plot, and an authentic Christian sensibility.
Disgusted with big-city hospital politics, Dr. Lukas Bower has decided to practice emergency medicine in a small town. But in Hannah Alexander’s novel Sacred Trust, Lukas’ ER director vows to send him packing when his no-nonsense style clashes with the local establishment. For Lukas, medicine is more than a vacation - it’s a sacred trust. Everyone who enters his medical world, whether a cardiac patient or a suicidal widower or an obese man struggling for a sense of dignity, deserves the best he has to offer. But no case will ignite his emotions like that of ten year old Tedi, whose father’s alcoholism has put her at tremendous risk. Will Lukas be able to help these struggling patients and keep his job at the same time?
In Fallen Angel by Roger Elwood, a fallen angel named Observer is commissioned by his master to write a chronicle of world events justifying Satan’s single-minded dedication to the destruction of God’s creation. With book and pen in hand, Observer criss-crosses time and space to gain a Satan-side perspective of famous events, places and personalities: The Flood. Auschwitz. The Kennedy Assassination. Muhammed. Michelangelo. Gorbachev. The Middle East. But the more he sees and records, the more appalled Observer becomes with Satan’s unmitigated ruthlessness. He begins to doubt. To question. To wonder if his choice to follow Satan was the right one… and if he can still turn back.
A pair of books by Gregory J. Smith, Captive Planet and Operation Master Planet follows an unlikely hero, Lam Laeo, as he joins rebels from the planet Tsu in their revolt against the oppressive rule of the Dominion. Reluctantly pushed into leadership, Lam is also brought into a dramatic person-to-person confrontation with the Source and Power who truly rules over the galaxies. It’s sci-fi, action, intrigue and romance laced together with powerful truth.