One brother’s dark secret. Another brother’s scorn. Newlyweds Gavin and Maggie Munsfield return to care for the sick and wounded at The Oasis Compound in Chennai, India, which is still suffering from the recent tsunami. Gavin’s brother, Tim, a successful landscape architect, joins them for the clean-up and rebuilding of the Compound. But Tim harbors a dark past that threatens to destroy his relationship with his brother…and a promising new love. Will family ties be strong enough to bind two wounded hearts, once the secret is revealed?
In an exotic culture of 7.5 million people and over 3 million gods, one woman’s resolve to make the journey results in an amazing story of the Lord’s protection and provision. Maggie Osteder’s given up hope of finding a man who shares her love for India. So while her friends plan dream weddings, she follows her heart, fulfilling a ten-year dream of becoming a career missionary. Yet upon arrival in Chennai, a fellow missionary makes a comment that strikes to Maggie’s heart-that her ministry will be more effective if she’s married.
River of Eden Paul Wagner Paperback, 324 pp., $21.95 OakTara (October 8, 2010)
An apparent “forever war” rages between beings of unimaginable power, but the choices of a reporter and a reverend can change everything…. Rebekah Berman, reporter for The Chicago Chronicle, is on the trail of a cataclysmic ecological disaster in southern Iraq that has killed millions of people. Could this have anything to do with a bizarre fish kill in Canada’s Yukon that has left biologists puzzled for decades? Rebekah is plunged into deadly intrigue with a powerfully connected PR firm, a secret project dubbed The Big Picture, and a most unlikely partnership in the midst of a nuclear strike in the Middle East.
Nearly a millennium ago the Speakers were murdered… and their relics disappeared. But now awakenings stir the land. Xari Oth’ilin flees the orphanage to pursue her destiny, but when the Otter relic falls out of the sky she learns she has been specially chosen as one of the twelve elite, long-forgotten group of “protectors” known as the Speakers. Fluttermouse, a headstrong, accident-prone fairy, and Anathriel Lelaine, a snobbish handmaiden, join her. Bound together by chance, magic, and a desperate flight from the evil Mortén, they all discover that anything can happen….
The Last Cordate Allison Winfree Pickrell Paperback, 360 pp., $22.95 OakTara (January 26, 2010)
In the beginning the race of beings called datta reveled in their world, their gifts, and made Da-Dat-Shee, the three-hearted God, the center of their lives…until they turned inward, seeking their own pleasure. In an attempt to right the wrongs, every ten years they chose a Cordate among their younglings to carry Grief from the planet. But the evil Necrose stopped the Cordates before they could accomplish their mission. Now Talasa begins her journey as Cordate. She’s convinced that the glorious age of Diapason awaits. Yet, are the people ready to receive this news?