October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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When Crickets Cry Deluxe Edition, November 2025
Hardcover
The Keeper, April 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Exchange, October 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Record Keeper, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Letter Keeper, March 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Water Keeper, February 2021
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Water Keeper, May 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Send Down the Rain, February 2019
Paperback
Send Down the Rain, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Water from My Heart, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Thunder And Rain, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

THE KEEPER
By: Charles Martin

Murphy Shepherd #4
Thomas Nelson
April 2025
On Sale: April 1, 2025
432 pages
ISBN: 0840722478
EAN: 9780840722478
Kindle: B0D8VLBQF8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction | Fiction Adventure | Christian Mystery

USA TODAY and ECPA bestselling series

Combine James Patterson and Colleen Hoover and you'll start to understand why readers are riveted by the Murphy Shepherd series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin: gripping action, heart-wrenching emotion, and deep questions that deserve to be considered.

Bones--Murphy Shepherd's teacher, mentor, priest, and friend--is gone. Devastated by the loss and unsure how to continue the rescue work they started, Murph has no choice but to jump back in when the worst happens. His longtime friend and current United States vice president, Aaron Ashley, has been a silent partner in the fight against trafficking. But in spite of having the best security available, his three daughters have been taken bound and blindfolded from their home by an extraction team that left no clues and no trace--just an empty house, a bereft mother, and nine dead Secret Service agents. Only Murph and his team have a hope of finding them.

Bones may have made the ultimate sacrifice by taking down his own brother and the dark network he led, but there are still others in this network where evil is the currency and power is the prize. Soon Ashley drops out of the presidential race and a new candidate emerges--someone who is ready, too ready, to step into the race and the Oval Office.

Bones taught Murph that the needs of the one, the lost one, outweigh those of the ninety-nine. In his first rescue without Bones beside him, Murph's fight against human trafficking takes him across the globe and through the halls of government to destroy the network and save the lives and souls of those taken.

The Murphy Shepherd series is simultaneously a tender love story, a heartrending search for freedom, an exploration of the terrible cost of human trafficking, and an anthem to the power of love to create change when it shows up regardless of the cost. The Keeper raises the stakes even further, so be ready--you won't want to put it down until you reach the very last page.