Need some hot reads for your beach bag?

It’s that time of year to bask in the sun and lose yourself in a great story…and have I got a list of great stories for you! The ACFW Carol Award finalist list just came out this week, and guess what? Three—count em!—THREE of my critique buddies made the cut. I’m so doggone proud of Lisa Ludwig, Ane Mulligan and Chawna Schroeder. Naturally, I recommend you read their titles first;)

But enough of my chatter. On to the list!

Contemporary

The Promised Land by Elizabeth Musser
If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh
On a Coastal Breeze by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Historical

Things We Didn’t Say by Amy Lynn Green
In High Cotton by Ane Mulligan
The Right Kind of Fool by Sarah Loudin Thomas

 Historical Romance

Daughter of Rome by Tessa Afshar
Like Flames in the Night by Connilyn Cossette
The Runaway Bride by Jody Hedlund 

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Dead End by Nancy Mehl
Relative Silence by Carrie Stuart Parks
A Baby’s Right to Choose by David L. Winters 

 Novella

Far as the Curse is Found, from the collection Joy to the World: A Regency Christmas Collection by Amanda Barratt
Christmas in Galway, in the collection Christmas Lights and Romance by Elizabeth Ludwig
A New Hope for Christmas by Erin Stevenson 

Romance

Love and a Little White Lie by Tammy L. Gray
Starfish Pier by Irene Hannon
Carolina Breeze by Denise Hunter 

 Romantic Suspense 

Lost Down Deep by Sara Davison
Point of Danger by Irene Hannon
Airborne by DiAnn Mills

Short Novel 

The Christmas Bargain by Lisa Carter
Killer Insight by Virginia Vaughan 
Texas Holiday Hideout by Virginia Vaughan 

 Speculative

Cry of the Raven (Book 3, The Ravenwood Saga) by Morgan L. Busse
Stealing Embers by Julie Hall
The Vault Between Spaces by Chawna Schroeder

Young Adult

Victoria Grace the Jerkface by S.E. Clancy
The Story Hunter by Lindsay A. Franklin
Mortal Sight by Sandra Fernandez Rhoads

Debut 

Things We Didn’t Say by Amy Lynn Green
The Edge of Everywhen by A.S. Mackey
Mortal Sight by Sandra Fernandez Rhoads