Welcome to November’s new releases.
Today we have 4 books to share with you, congrats to all on your new releases.
Loss and Loyalty – Moabites by Christine Dillon
Publisher: Links in the Chain Press (Released: 21 October 2025)
What makes someone family—blood, love, or something more?
Arielle believed she was an Israelite—until her brother confessed the truth: she was found as an infant on their doorstep in Moab. After tragedy strikes and the men of her household are snatched away, Arielle must leave the only land she’s ever known and any hope of finding her birth family to follow her adopted family to Bethlehem. But Bethlehem is not the land of plenty described in the stories of God’s promises once told to Arielle by her beloved adopted father.
Treated as outsiders, they must scrape together a life among people who barely tolerate them. The God of Israel is said to protect the orphan and the widow—but what happens when His people reject His laws? As Arielle wrestles with loss, identity, and the silence of a God she’s unsure how to trust, one question haunts her: if her own birth parents abandoned her, why wouldn’t a foreign God do the same?
To belong, Arielle must choose where her loyalty lies—between the past that shaped her and the God who might yet have a purpose for her future.
Abandoned. Unseen. Not forgotten.
Link to buy: Amazon, Author Website
Surprised by Love by Jessica Wakefield
Publisher: Love & Daisies Press (Released: 27 October 2025)
She’s risking everything for one perfect wedding. He’s the last person she expected to show up. Falling in love again? Absolutely not.
Viana Lawson has five days to pull off a secret celebrity wedding that could save her struggling business—and the house her parents built before they died. She’s planned for every possible disaster… except for Camden Mayfield.
When the high-profile couple arrives with their own last-minute security hire, Cam is the last person Viana expected to see. The man who once walked away from her is now back in Summer Shore, standing between her and the success she desperately needs.
Camden never planned to return—or to work alongside the woman he’s never been able to forget. But keeping the wedding safe means staying close to Viana. Too close.
With fifteen VIP guests, a media leak, and mounting chaos, Viana and Cam must confront the past they never resolved. And maybe—just maybe—take a chance on a future they never saw coming.
A clean, kissing-only contemporary romance filled with heart, humor, and a seaside town you’ll wish was real. Welcome to Summer Shore.
Paint the Walls Red by Suzie Peace Pybus
Publisher: Echidna Ink (Released: 7 October 2025)
One choice can haunt a lifetime.
1985: Meg dreams of becoming a nurse—and perhaps finding love along the way. But one fateful mistake forces her into an impossible decision, the consequences of which will shadow her for decades.
2025: Something in Meg’s hospital isn’t right: phantom figures in the vacant ward, a mysterious new patient, a gardener digging beneath the old oak tree. Meg senses it is all tied to her past, but no one will give her answers. With her memory slipping away, time is running out. She must race to uncover the truth before she forgets completely.
The Coast is Clear by Karen Brough (Author), Matthew Valenti (Illustrator)
Publisher: Heart Hope Publishing (Released: 5 October 2025)
The Coast is Clear – A Mirror Poem (A story that unfolds forward, then reverses back through the same events)
All is well.
This enchanting bedtime picture book transforms ordinary nighttime sounds into an extraordinary calming story designed to help little ones wind down after a busy day.
Two Ways to Read:
As a traditional book from start to finish OR In the mirror poem format which reads from front to back, and then back again.
The scrape of a sliding door. The bark of a dog. The chime of a clock. The soft call of a plover.
Each sound weaves into a gentle tale that unfolds forwards, then backwards, like a mirror poem carried on the night air. Watch as the story builds up through sounds, then gently rewinds back to peaceful silence.
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Congrats to all the new releases! I’m reading Paint the Walls Red. It’s right next to me and may I just say that the paperback is a pleasure to read. I love the font size and the layout. My eyes really like it, and my head is enjoying the story too! 🙂
Glad you are liking it.
Congrats to the authors and illustrator with new releases! A stellar list! 🙂
It’s nice when there is a wide range of books.