Welcome to our August 2026 New Releases.
This month we’re featuring Three Christian fiction books. We hope you’ll enjoy discovering these recent releases, and we congratulate the authors on their new books.
The Enemy’s Sister by Dienece Darling
Self Published (Release Date: 14 August 2026)
The Enemy’s Sister: a shipwreck, a soldier, and holding onto faith at Our House on Jakaranda Laan.
He learned a lot of things in the army. Falling in love with the enemy’s sister wasn’t one of them.
If you love a historical romance with frontier-flare and rediscovered faith, you’re sure to enjoy The Enemy’s Sister.
Lieutenant John Beauchamp’s faith is as tattered and torn as the storm-tossed ship transporting his regiment to Cape Town in 1795 when they shipwreck on a South African beach. But the steadfast faith of persecuted local, Anneke Terblanche, and her unlikely friend, a freedwoman, inspire John to remember how sweet a life of faith can be. If only Anneke’s brother wasn’t trying to kill him.
Anneke has never met anyone more important to her than her twin brother, until John sweeps into her life. John is both raging storm and fragrant breeze. But her brother loathes the English and fears they mean to control the Boer’s new settlement at Cedarfontein. If Anneke chooses John, she’ll lose her twin and any chance of hearing her brother say he loves her.
Will Anneke and John leave their hearts behind on that fateful South African beach, or does God have another plan for this war-torn soldier and his faithful frontier girl?
Recipe for a Princess by Hannah Currie
Publisher: WhiteCrown Publishing (Releasing: 18 August 2026)
Princess Isabella of Peverell couldn’t be more thrilled for her brother’s new romance. Nothing could make her happier, not even a perfectly baked dark chocolate cheesecake drizzled with fudge sauce and topped with strawberries cut into roses. With a few curls of toasted coconut tossed around for that extra flair. Because baking is all about the presentation. But life? Life is all about the romance.
Not that Izzy’s ever experienced romance herself. She knows enough about love to know one can’t force it. At least for oneself. For others? Absolutely. Why wouldn’t the rest of her friends want to be as blissfully happy as her brother? If she can take a few ingredients and turn them into the most beautiful high tea, surely she can find perfect matches for her friends. She’s the princess, after all, and what better legacy to leave as a royal than one of love and care for her people? If she just happens to find a man to love her along the way, even better. Only life doesn’t follow a recipe, and as decisions and their consequences start piling up around her, Isabella finds herself in over her head. And the one man who’s always been there for her just walked away.
Harriet & Will The Secret Gold by Debra Clewer
Publisher: Lilly Pilly Grace Publishing (Release Date: 21 July 2026)
While on a school gold rush excursion, 11-year-old Harriet Cooper and her best friend Will Taylor are drawn to an old red phone booth, restored to play stories of the goldfields in return for an historic coin. The phone booth appears in the museum grounds of each location the children visit. But they discover much more and end up time travelling to each of the three Australian historical gold rush locations, obtaining information for their upcoming school history project.
When Harriet discovers some old gold coins at one museum and a nugget at a gold mine museum site, she is excited. Both the coins and the nugget have been missing for over 100 years, and the gold would help to pay off her parent’s house. But Harriet may not be allowed to keep both, according to a tough teacher and assistant principal, who believe she is not entitled to it. Along the way, Harriet’s personal bully tries to block Harriet’s claims and keep the gold for herself.
With the assistance of their red dragon friend, Gruffyd, the two become involved in drama galore, from riots to threatening miners, tough teachers and more. It appears as though Harriet might lose her claim to ownership, and she and Will seek justice. Help comes in the form of a second protective dragon, who reminds Harriet that the gold nugget, called Da Jin Shi, is really her property now and something disastrous will befall anyone else who tries to claim it.
Harriet is cleared as the owner of the coins, but the gold mine museum wants the nugget returned for a display. However, she receives a substantial reward for its return, the offer of a buyer for the coins and everything is restored.
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