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Back cover copy: Music taught Lucy love and beauty. Could silence teach her hope? Lucy and Charlie Tuttle agree on one thing: they’re committed to each other for life. Trouble is, neither of them expected life to look like this. Charlie retired early, but Lucy is devoted to a long-term career…until the day she has no choice. Forced to retire from her position as music educator in a small Midwestern K-8 school, Lucy can only watch helplessly as the program her father started years ago disintegrates before her eyes. As the music fades and a chasm separates her from the passion of her heart, Lucy wonders if her faith’s song has gone silent, too. The musical score of her life seems to be missing all the notes. When a single misstep threatens to silence Lucy forever,...

April 2016 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website. Contemporary Romance: The Firefighter Daddy by Margaret Daley–Firefighter Liam McGregory is used to staring down fivealarm fires—but becoming a father to his two little nieces has him sending out a call for help. When the girls return a lost pup to its beautiful owner, Liam thinks widow Sarah Blackburn is just the person he needs—or who the children need. He’s promised to never marry again. ‘ Sarah takes his deal: she’ll watch his kids and he’ll watch her menagerie of pets—but the new father is off-limits. But two determined little matchmakers can be hard to resist when they need a mom to make one big happy family… A...

Interview with the heroine from Breaking Free by Jennifer Slattery: 1.  Alice, tell me the most interesting thing about you. Interesting, huh? I don’t know if that’s quite the word I’d use to describe my life. Although it’s not exactly boring, especially lately. I’m sure you heard about my little…issue…at lunch with the girls the other day—when my credit and debit cards were denied. It’s probably all over church by now. Everyone’s got a theory. I have a feeling I’d take their theories over the truth any day. Not that I really know what the truth is, but I’ll find out. Somehow. 2. What do you do for fun? These questions are making me aware of something—it’s time for a change. Past time. Because honestly, most of my time is spent cleaning house, doing laundry, and...

  The Inheritance Book 2 is available now!   TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME (The Magic Jukebox Book 6) The newest book in USA Today bestselling author Judith Arnold’s Magic Jukebox series. The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a song that will change their lives and open their hearts to love. Maeve Nolan left Brogan’s Point years ago in anger and pain, planning never to return. But an unexpected inheritance lures her back to town. If she’s going to remain in Brogan’s Point, she will have to mend her tattered...

March 2016 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website. Contemporary Romance: A Baby for the Rancher by Margaret Daley — Awakening from a months-long coma, Ben Stillwater is met with a big surprise: the footloose bachelor cowboy is a father! Ben tries to adjust to life with baby Cody and decides what the child really needs is a mom. Sheriff Lucy Benson does not seem a likely candidate—she already has her hands full closing in on the thieves who have been targeting the ranches of Little Horn, Texas. But the closer Ben gets to Lucy—and the closer they get to solving the mystery—the more it seems the free-spirited rancher and the determined officer could be the perfect match. (Contemporary Romance from...

Blurb for  STARS OVER SUNSET BOULEVARD: In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, two women working as studio secretaries on the 1939 movie set of Gone with the Wind, discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship. Interview with the heroine from Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner: 1. Violet, tell me the most interesting thing about you. I’m very good at figuring out what will make people happy. Some folks just don’t know what’s good for them. They need someone who loves them to help them make choices that will lead to their eventual happiness. I think caring for people is the reason I was born. 2. What do you do for fun? My idea of fun is always doing something enjoyable with someone else, something that gives that...