Beguiled
Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand
Paperback, 336 pp., $14.99
Bethany House (February 2010)

Rylee Monroe, a dogwalker in Charleston’s wealthiest neighborhood, never feared the streets at night. But now a thief is terrorizing the area and worse, someone seems to be targeting her.

Reporter Logan Woods is covering the break-ins with the hope of publishing them as a true-crime book. The more he digs, the more he realizes this beguiling dogwalker seems to be at the center of everything. As danger draws ever closer, Logan must choose: Chase the girl, the story, or plunge into the shadows after the villain who threatens everything?

Deliver Us from Evil
Robin Caroll
Paperback, 320 pp., $14.99
B&H Books (February 1, 2010)

A beautiful yet tough woman, Brannon Callahan is a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Great Smoky Mountains. After a small plane carrying U.S. Marshal Roark Holland (already haunted by a recent tragedy), Brannon must save him in more ways than one and safeguard the donor heart he’s transporting to a government witness on the edge of death. Otherwise the largest child trafficking ring in history—with shocking links from Thailand to Tennessee—will slip further away into darkness along the Appalachian Trail.

Escape the Hezbollah
Pola Muzyka
Hardcover, 290 pp., $28.99
Trinity Matrix Publishing (November 2, 2009)

Escape the Hezbollah is a glorious story of how love can endure through the most cruel, hostile, and depraved environment imaginable. Abducted and forced to join the newly formed Hezbollah army, a young American Christian fights for his life, his freedom, and the woman he loves when he defies a brutal regime during one of the most difficult times in Middle East history. Joseph witnesses the most horrific sins that man can inflict upon another human being. He questions God’s very existence, ultimately doubting his own faith. Can he find a way out?

The Swiss Courier
Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey
Paperback, 336 pp., $13.99
Revell (October 1, 2009)

August 1944: Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA). When she is asked to risk her life to “courier” a German physicist out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing the atomic bomb. But in this dark hour, whom can she trust? This fast-paced, suspenseful novel takes readers along treacherous twists and turns during a fascinating and deadly time in history.

Murder at Eagle Summit
Virginia Smith
Paperback, 224 pp., $5.5
Steeple Hill (April 14, 2009)

A romantic ski resort seems the perfect place for a wedding. Until a murder on the slopes turns everyone on Eagle Summit into suspects. Liz Carmichael, the bride’s cousin, saw a shadowy figure on a chair lift in the middle of the night. But was it the victim or the killer? Liz goes to the police and finds herself giving the report to her ex-fiancé, Deputy Tim Richards. After a three-year estrangement, she could finally make things right… unless the killer finds her first.