New Historical Novels

I love this time of the year… mornings are cooler, afternoon skies seem a bit bluer, people are setting out mums and pumpkins on their porches, and there is an abundance of new novels! Ah, fall…gotta love it!

Here are some of the new historical novels that have just landed at LifeWay Christian Stores. They are all on my “to be read” list that I’m always making my way through.

I have been anxious to get my hands on Jody Hedlund’s second novel for months. The Doctor’s Lady is a compelling story of missionary life in the 1830’s. Priscilla White has always felt a call to serve on the mission field in India but when a letter arrives telling her that the mission board prefers to have only married couples on the field, she’s left wondering what God’s plan is for her life. Dr. Eli Ernest is passing through Priscilla’s town raising money and awareness for his ministry in Oregon Country. Eli just received the same news that Priscilla did: only married couples are needed on the mission field. The two realize the other might be the answer to their need and they agree to a partnership, a marriage in name only that will allow them both to serve. Their journey west to Oregon is based on a true story of a missionary couple (love that!) but I won’t spoil the story by telling you who it is! 

Another book that I was anxious for was Allison Pittman’s Forsaking All Others. This is her second book in The Sister Wife Series (For Time and Eternity is book #1).   Camilla Fox has just survived a near-fatal snowstorm after leaving her home to escape the Mormon faith she no longer calls her own. As she recovers under the personal care of United States Army Colonel Charles Brandon, she is constantly thinking of the two children she left behind. Camilla is desperate to reunite with her daughters and to not let them grow up in the Mormon faith.   But how can she provide a home for them when she doesn’t want to share her husband with a sister wife? Pittman’s series provides readers with a fascinating look into the early years of the Mormon faith and one woman’s desire to return to the Christian faith of her childhood.

I just finished reading A Heart Revealed by Julie Lessman set in 1930’s Boston. It’s the second book in the Winds of Change Series (A Hope Undaunted is book #1) and we get to know Emma Malloy, a friend of the O’Connor family. Emma left Dublin ten years ago to escape her brutal husband who scarred her beautiful face. She has established a life in Boston that she enjoys and is surrounded by friends who love her unconditionally. Emma finds herself falling for her best friend’s brother, Sean O’Connor.  In her heart she knows they could never have a relationship because her marriage has never been severed to Rory back in Ireland. Julie is one of the best there is today at writing intensely passionate romance novels. Her ability to thread romance and longing, deception and forgiveness, and lots of humor are unparalleled by anyone else in the Christian market today. 

And then there is Deeanne Gist. I just love this gal, both as an author and a person.  Love on the Line just released and promises to be filled with the romance and laughter that Deeanne is known for. Georgie Gail is a rural switchboard operator and is proud of her independence in a man’s world. Needless to say, she gets upset when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder. Luke Palmer may be a dashingly handsome man but he is far more than he appears.  Serving as an undercover Texas Ranger working to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers, the last thing Luke needs is to get his wires crossed with Georgie.  But when his stakeout puts her in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line. 

Those are some of the books on my fall reading list. What do you have on yours?