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  • Sanibel Dreams by Hope Holloway

    Sanibel Dreams by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When 53-year-old Eliza Whitney loses both her beloved husband and her high-powered job in the same month, she’s uncertain what the next chapter of her life will look like. Then her estranged father’s widow contacts her and asks her to come to Sanibel Island to help settle his affairs...
  • The Escape by Maggie Miller

    The Escape by Maggie Miller

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Second chances do exist.Five former sorority sisters, all in their 50's, undertake the adventure of a lifetime when a mysterious invite reunites them at an exclusive resort set on a private island.Olivia was the quiet one. Her divorce from her alcoholic husband freed her in many ways but caused a rift with her daughter that seems impossible to heal.Amanda was the perfect one...
  • Eternally Yours by Brenda Jackson

    Eternally Yours by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Friends… Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just friends…the last two people likely to end up as lovers. Syneda holds all men at arm's length because of the father whose name she never knew. Clayton has always been a playboy, and no woman has ever come close to keeping his interest for very long...
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    black-mc  family  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Not Until Someday: A Christian Romance by Valerie M. Bodden

    Not Until Someday: A Christian Romance by Valerie M. Bodden

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s waiting for her someday. He thinks his has already come and gone.After spending the past five years caring for her ill grandfather, Grace Calvano is eager to honor his memory by turning his stately old house in Hope Springs into a bed-and-breakfast...
  • Strip Me Bare by Kimberly Brown

    Strip Me Bare by Kimberly Brown

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when two people from different worlds find solace in each other?Alaina Jareau was born into a life of privilege. With the world at her fingertips, there was never much that she longed for that money couldn’t buy… except true happiness. For years now, she’s been hiding behind her influencer persona, showing off her life of luxury...
  • A Love So Real by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    A Love So Real by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Arianna Carrington-Harder is on the run from the disastrous outcome of a bad decision. Driving aimlessly along the west coast, she’s drawn to the small town of New Hope Falls in Washington State and soon finds herself in a place unlike anywhere she’s been before. Welcome to the fictional town of New Hope Falls! A sanctuary for those needing refuge. A beacon for those who are lost...
  • A Nest of Sparrows by Deborah Raney

    A Nest of Sparrows by Deborah Raney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Nest of...
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    christian  drama  family  religion  spirituality  adult  book  children
  • Blue's Beauty by Bailey West

    Blue's Beauty by Bailey West

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can a person find true love more than once? Roman “Blue” Bluette doesn’t think so until she comes along. Zanetta is a smart, non-traditional woman who believes that women rule the world. She also believes in love but it seems to elude her until he comes along. Blue’s Beauty is a journey of love lost, love found and redemption...
  • The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At the request of her readers, Kim Roby is giving another airing to one of her most popular characters, Curtis Black, who was introduced in Casting the First Stone and who continued his escapades in Too Much of a Good Thing...
  • Crossroads by Cathy Bryant

    Crossroads by Cathy Bryant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A bitter single mom denies God's existence until... What will it take to bring her back around? After a devastating divorce, a bitter single mom and atheist starts her own real estate company in the nostalgic and picturesque town of Miller’s Creek, Texas. Then her young daughter’s disturbing symptoms lead doctors to discover that her leukemia has relapsed...
  • The Blessing by Wanda E. Brunstetter

    The Blessing by Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Return to the Troyer farm where, despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Joel and Heidi once again open their Ohio home up to those seeking to learn about Amish cooking...
  • One More Night by AshleyNicole

    One More Night by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Successful business? Check. Supportive friends? Check. Beautifully planned wedding? Check. Faithful fiancé? No check!Minah Samuels just found out that her boyfriend and soon to be husband has been anything but faithful. The invites have gone out, the seating arrangements have been solidified and the dress is getting the final touches from the seamstress...
  • Found by Karen Kingsbury

    Found by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Desperate SearchDriven by his wife’s dying wish to find their firstborn son, John Baxter sets about the search. His prayer? That Elizabeth’s wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but when the answers finally come, they shake John to his core...
  • Forgiven by Karen Kingsbury

    Forgiven by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Deadly AccidentThe Christian Kids Theater group is devastated by a tragedy greater than any of them could’ve imagined. Now their director, Katy Hart, must find a way to walk the kids through their grief and give them a reason to believe again. But will hatred and revenge have the final word?An Aching EmptinessDayne Matthews is working on what could be his best movie yet...
  • A Change of Heart: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    A Change of Heart: A Christian Romance by Kimberly Rae Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This Christian romance novel of 80,000 words is the second book in The Callaghans & McFaddens series from author Kimberly Rae Jordan. A HANDFUL OF FLOWERS (ASIN: B01APAIXM6) is the prequel to this series. NOTE: This book is also part of the boxed set, WHISPERS OF LOVE (ASIN: B01DMH1FME) which release June 2016. Makayla McFadden has been part of her family’s business since it started...
  • A Cowboy and his Daughter by Emmy Eugene

    A Cowboy and his Daughter by Emmy Eugene

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They were married for a few months. She lost their baby...or so he thought. Rex Johnson knows he's the loudest brother. He doesn't even try to hide it, because he has plenty of other secrets he's never told anyone. Not his parents. Not his brothers. No one. I was only married for four months. No one needs to know...
  • Cottage near the Point by Kay Correll

    Cottage near the Point by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes trying to atone for mistakes only makes things worse… Sammy Thompson would love to erase her one big regret in life. A mistake that tore her family apart. A mistake that caused her to flee Belle Island years ago. Now she’s returned and certain if she buys back Bellemire Cottage it will lessen some of the pain she caused...
  • A Discovery of Hope by T.I. Lowe

    A Discovery of Hope by T.I. Lowe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Do you believe in angels? Willow Carter certainly did not, until Hope showed up and refused to leave. This insistent angel opens Willow’s eyes to a world filled with incredible people in many forms—a purpled-headed artist with a heart lined in pure gold, an autistic young man who sees the world through different eyes, a homeless woman trying to survive...
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    christian  epic  female-mc  poc-mc  religion  spirituality  adult  book
  • The Preacher's Son by Patricia Johns

    The Preacher's Son by Patricia Johns

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this poignant new series, Patricia Johns introduces an Amish family striving to reclaim the promise of love, marriage, and community . . . The Amish residents of Bountiful, Pennsylvania, are stunned when preacher Abe Yoder is imprisoned for fraud. For Abe’s son, Isaiah, the news cuts doubly deep. His daet’s misdeeds have cost Isaiah his family’s land and their good name...
  • Casting the First Stone by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Casting the First Stone by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Tanya Black has everything a woman could want: a fulfilling career, a beautiful daughter, an elegant home, and a handsome, charismatic husband who is pastor at a prominent Baptist church. And yet, none of it can hide the growing turbulence in her marriage, which suddenly has Tanya doubting what she once cherished...
  • A Kingsbury Collection: Where Yesterday Lives / When Joy Came to Stay / On Every Side by Karen Kingsbury

    A Kingsbury Collection: Where Yesterday Lives / When Joy Came to Stay / On Every Side by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Page-Turning Novels in One Volume! Where Yesterday Lives Ellen Barrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque hometown and the love she left behind. The eldest of five siblings, she longs for the time, long ago, when they were a happy family...
  • The Beloved Hope Chest by Amy Clipston

    The Beloved Hope Chest by Amy Clipston

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the final installment of the Amish Heirloom series, the Fisher sisters learn the mystery behind their parents’ marriage—and about the sibling who has never been spoken of. Mattie Fisher has a secret she’s kept from her three daughters. After they discover clues in her hope chest, Mattie realizes it’s time to tell them the truth about why she married their father—and about her life before then...
  • Blue Columbine by Jennifer Rodewald

    Blue Columbine by Jennifer Rodewald

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Best friends—maybe more—until addiction shatters everything. Reeling from professional failure, Andrew Harris needs a fresh start. When he moves back to Colorado to join a Denver law firm, he runs into Jamie, his childhood sweetheart. She is still the kind and faithful girl he remembers—not to mention beautiful and still single...
  • Over the Waters by Deborah Raney

    Over the Waters by Deborah Raney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Dr. Botox" to the bored rich women of Chicago, plastic surgeon Max Jordan is shocked by his son Joshua's decision to focus his medical degree and talent on Haitian orphans. Embittered by Joshua's sudden death, Max searches for resolution in the place his son called home—an orphanage outside of Port au Prince. The selflessness of Joshua's coworkers stuns Max...
  • Return to the Island by Kay Correll

    Return to the Island by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the universe takes everything away… Sometimes it gives back in unexpected ways. Tally is perfectly content living her life on Belle Island and running Magic Cafe. She has all she’ll ever need or want. At least all she’ll let herself need or want. Eddie Williams returns to the island, searching for answers, determined to meet the son he never knew he had...
  • Not Until Then by Valerie M. Bodden

    Not Until Then by Valerie M. Bodden

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Neither is looking for a new family. But that may be just what they find in Hope Springs…After surviving a brain aneurysm, Bethany is happy to simply get through each day without forgetting to pack her daughter a lunch or pick her up from school. She’s been a single mom since Ruby was born, and that’s the way she likes it...
  • The Hope Jar by Wanda E. Brunstetter

    The Hope Jar by Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Brand-New Series from New York Times Best Selling Author Wanda E. Brunstetter. What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be...
  • Love, Honor, and Betray by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Love, Honor, and Betray by Kimberla Lawson Roby

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together...
  • Love Always, Kate by D. Nichole King

    Love Always, Kate by D. Nichole King

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dear Diary, Leukemia’s been my life since I was eleven. Now, six years later, I want my life back. Only I’m not sure what that is. The test results came back today. 22,000. Which means I’m officially out of remission—again. I have three options: 1. Another round of chemo. 2. A super-new experimental drug. 3. Dump it all— forget the meds and treatments and enjoy the time I have left...
  • Hidden Secrets by Carolyn Brown

    Hidden Secrets by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Kim Brewster’s ill-fated marriage was annulled so quickly that she thought she could keep the whole thing a secret…until she found out she was pregnant. But before her confession can blow a hole in the seemingly perfect lives of the Brewster women, her great-grandmother, Hannah, drops a bomb of her own...
  • Seduced by a Knight by Té Russ

    Seduced by a Knight by Té Russ

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After being burned by love, Londyn Freedman ends up in Sweet Rapids, Nevada, helping out at her uncle’s bookstore. She’s not looking to get caught up in another relationship, but she can’t deny the instant attraction she feels when she meets artist, Ramsey Knight.Ramsey is caught up in Londyn’s spell from the first moment he hears her sing...
  • The Hope We Share by Juliette Duncan

    The Hope We Share by Juliette Duncan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can the Master Potter work in Rachel and Andrew’s hearts and give them a second chance at love? Rachel Jennings’ unwillingness to forgive God for her twin sister’s death when they were twelve has made her bitter and rebellious. Now, approaching thirty, Rachel flees an unhealthy relationship and heads north with her son, Joshua...
  • Heatstrokes: A Summer Fling Novella by Kema B.

    Heatstrokes: A Summer Fling Novella by Kema B.

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All her life, make-up artist Simone Bailey, used laughter as a defense mechanism to keep from crying. She lives her life loudly, unapologetically, and free until a devastating betrayal rocks her world. Deciding she is off men for the foreseeable future, she puts her focus on her career and building her brand instead...
  • Sarah's Orphans by Vannetta Chapman

    Sarah's Orphans by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Orphaned...But Never Abandoned by God Sarah Yoder belongs to a Plain community in Oklahoma, but her days are far from simple. Life suddenly gets complicated when a series of tragic events unfold, leaving her in charge of the household.     Alone with her younger siblings, Sarah is exhausted but finally at peace. Then she nearly runs over a small Hispanic boy with her buggy..
  • A Wedding to Cherish by Evangeline Kelly

    A Wedding to Cherish by Evangeline Kelly

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s about to marry the wrong woman until he meets the wedding planner, and now he has a decision to make.Always the wedding planner and never the bride. That’s what Daisy Ray is afraid her future holds. Things never seem to go well for her in the love department, but her mom says God must be saving her for that special man...
  • Keep Me At Christmas by Lucinda Whitney

    Keep Me At Christmas by Lucinda Whitney

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can the magic of the season keep them together beyond Christmas? When Luciana Romano arrives in Hudson Springs, New York, her plan is to complete her restoration job at the museum so she can return home to her family right after Christmas. But a blizzard grounds all flights, and she finds herself stranded. The DiLorenzo family offers her a place to stay, and she accepts their hospitality...
  • A Time to Care by Juliette Duncan

    A Time to Care by Juliette Duncan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’ve tied the knot, but will their love last the distance? Wendy didn’t expect to find love again after losing her beloved husband of over 30 years to a heart attack, but after being swept off her feet by a silver-haired Texan cowboy she met in a Dublin hotel, their relationship bloomed, and she agreed to marry him...
  • Heart's Ransom by Dora Hiers

    Heart's Ransom by Dora Hiers

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A leaky sink. An orphaned puppy. A naval officer who wants a second chance. Will love and faith win Arden's heart? Or has that ship already sailed…Arden Mayhall doesn’t know what to do with her life anymore. Approaching sixty, it’s not as if she can go out and find a job to fill the time she used to spend caring for her beloved husband...
  • A Time to Dance by Karen Kingsbury

    A Time to Dance by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    John and Abby Reynolds are the perfect couple—envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But John and Abby know they're just pretending to be happy. In fact, they're waiting for the right time to tell the kids they're going to divorce. But at the family meeting where they plan to tell their children, Nicole shares a surprise of her own: she's getting married...
  • Time Stamps by K.L. Kreig

    Time Stamps by K.L. Kreig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Time stamps. Our life is marked by them. Significant milestones to the seemingly mundane. All of them have a place. A purpose. Moments and chapters stacking on each other, building scars and memories. Creating stories that are only ours to tell. But those stamps are finite, pre-determined. And eventually our allotment runs out. This is our story. Our collection of time stamps...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  epic  family  female-mc  sad  adult  book
  • Trouble Don't Last Always by Francis Ray

    Trouble Don't Last Always by Francis Ray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Desperate to escape her abusive marriage, Lilly Crawford files for divorce, then slips away from her small east Texas hometown with little more than the clothes on her back. She points her twelve-year-old car east, hoping to find a new beginning...
  • Hidden Blessings by Kim Cash Tate

    Hidden Blessings by Kim Cash Tate

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diagnosis: breast cancer. Prognosis: terminal. Life: only beginning. Her diamond caught the sun's rays and refracted glittered light about the room. She'd asked herself again and again: How could she be so blessed? Partner at a prestigious law firm, engaged to the man of her dreams . . . there was no doubt. God had smiled on Kendra Woods...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  christian  drama  poc-mc  religion  spirituality  adult  book
  • Courting Emily by Amy Lillard

    Courting Emily by Amy Lillard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Return to Wells Landing, the close-knit Amish community in Oklahoma, where a hopeful young woman struggles to find true love while staying true to her faith. . . Emily Ebersol is the bishop's daughter, and everyone--including Emily--assumes she'll marry a faithful Amish man and live out her days within the community...
  • Buying Love by Toni Shiloh

    Buying Love by Toni Shiloh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will money ruin everything? Nina Warrenton is ready for the next step in her life plan—marriage, but no one has proposed. Taking matters into her hand, she places an ad in the newspaper hoping to entice a willing stranger. But when she begins to fall for the small-town chef, she realizes how much she wants him to love her and not her money...
  • Terri by Sharon Srock

    Terri by Sharon Srock

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caring for a new foster child while running a thriving day care should keep Terri Hayes more than occupied, but her heart longs for something more. She hungers for a family of her own, and at twenty-nine, she feels time ticking away. When a busted pipe floods her home, Steve Evans offers her the family’s basement apartment as a temporary solution...
  • Letters to Lincoln by Tracie Podger

    Letters to Lincoln by Tracie Podger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when your husband dies unexpectedly? You write him a letter, of course. What do you do when someone answers that letter? Dani was mid-thirties when she found herself alone and without her soulmate. Coming to terms with her loss took all her strength and her voice. If Dani thought she’d experienced the worst life could throw at her, she was wrong...
  • A Time to Treasure by Juliette Duncan

    A Time to Treasure by Juliette Duncan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She lost her husband and misses him dearly. He lost his wife but is ready to move on...
  • A Summer of Secrets by Kay Correll

    A Summer of Secrets by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman with a secret. A man who will never forgive her. Cece Stuart hadn’t planned on ever finding love and she’s made her peace with that. Really, she has… Zach is over women and their secrets. Really, he is… But fate laughed at them, as it often does, and threw them together finishing up a new wedding venue at Sweet River Lodge...
  • The Dear Wife by Jennifer Peel

    The Dear Wife by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "An emotional roller coaster ride that will leave you breathless." - Dana from Random Chaos ★★★★★ "The Dear Wife should be on every woman's nightstand." - Whitney Dineen, Bestselling Author ★★★★★ She’s been holding on for dear life, now she must learn to let go. Marathon runner and quintessential wife and mother Avery Decker appears to have it all together. But don’t let her smile fool you...
  • One Day I Saw a Black King by J.D. Mason

    One Day I Saw a Black King by J.D. Mason

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "He stared at himself in the mirror, wondering how he'd managed to lose track of time. Complacency had managed to set in again. . . A decent job, warm home, food on the table, and a body to curl up next to at night; he'd made the mistake of getting comfortable. Comfort fooled him into thinking it was all good when it wasn't. Damn nightmares had a way of reminding him of that...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  drama  female-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
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