Books
Kristen’s latest release is a Christian romantic suspense novel titled Hold Your Breath, published with Mountain Brook Ink. It is the second book in her Crossroads Suspense series, though it can be read as a standalone novel. Click here to watch the book trailer.
The first book in her Crossroads Suspense series, Take My Hand, is a semifinalist in the Serious Writer Awards Book of the Year contest. Click here to watch the book trailer. You can enjoy a taste of both novels’ setting of Beech Mountain, North Carolina with her short story, Bricks and Bones, available as our gift when you subscribe to her monthly newsletter.
She also has two young adult fiction trilogies available. Both offer a suspenseful adventure in either a futuristic dystopian setting (The Rogues trilogy) or a contemporary setting (Wings of the Dawn). Her young adult books are available on Amazon under her maiden name Kristen Hogrefe.
The Revisionary
Nineteen-year-old Portia Abernathy accepts her Revisionary draft to the Crystal Globe with one goal: earn a Dome seat so she can amend the satellite rules and rescue her exiled brother. Her plan derails when Head Gage Eliab brands her as a suspect in a campus Rogue attack, and in her quest to clear her name, she questions if the vigilante Brotherhood responsible might not be the real villain.
Her shifting loyalties pit her against Luther Danforth, her Count Citizen ally who believes in reform, not revolution. Joining the Brotherhood makes a future with him impossible - and Portia must decide if it's better to rewrite the rules or to break them.
More info →The Revolutionary
Three months a satellite prisoner, Portia wonders if the Brotherhood has left her to die—until she plunges into the domain of a smuggler contacted by her brother. But her rescue comes with a price tag, and now, she must forfeit her identity to act as a spy. She learns that her enemies want the Dome to approve mass satellite executions, though no one knows why. Worse, they’re using her friend Luther, now a Court Citizen intern, to sign the short-term orders. She wants to confide in Luther, but can she still trust him with the company he keeps?
Plagued by shadows and guilt for leaving her protector Gath behind on the satellite, Portia must find a way, not only to rescue him and the other prisoners, but also to destroy the slave camps once and for all.
More info →The Reactionary
Portia: Darius lied about their father, and defying her brother now might secure a much-needed overseas ally. But liberty for all could cost her the man she loves and any hope of reuniting her fractured family.
Luther: He devises a diplomatic distraction to buy Portia time for her international mission and him a chance to rescue his scientist-father, tricked into operating Felix’s labs. But will he lose them both anyway?
Gath: He survived the satellite explosions, only to encounter one of Felix’s plague initiatives. Somehow, he must recover and re-unify what’s left of their leadership team—and point them toward the light.
More info →Captive Beneath the Bahamian Sky
Abby Grant is impatient to take control of her summer. When offered an internship with her detective uncle, she accepts for all the wrong reasons and becomes the target of a sinister organization.
Rick Benton is a detective with a grudge against God. He believes in only himself - until he loses control of the case and risks more than just his career.
Neil DeWitt is at odds with life and the law. When his black market business brings him back home, he meets a young woman who reminds him of the past he's tried to forget.
Andrew Baxter dreamed of being a pilot, but God had other plans. Restoring a Douglas DC-3 helps him see God's purpose - if only the girl he cared about could understand.
More info →Secrets Beyond Lake Winona’s Shore
Yet she no sooner arrives at her family's Lake Winona cabin than her uncle leaves her an unsettling voicemail, and Abby is torn between telling the truth to her brothers and friends about his suspicions, and not wanting to worry them.
She stumbles upon a mysterious old letter and suddenly finds herself face to face with her nemesis Neil DeWitt, entangled in a mystery surrounding a Cold War diary, a missing dossier, and a kidnapped treasure hunter.
Can Abby solve the scrambled clues before time runs out? Beyond that, can she find the courage to confront her dilemmas and begin to forgive the one who has wronged her? What weighs in the balance is worth more than even the secrets that lie somewhere beyond Lake Winona's shore.
More info →Awakening Sun
Abby Grant probes into a classmate's mysterious death, unaware of the trap designed to lure her and her Uncle Rick Benton back into the path of the organization bent on destroying them.
Rick suspects a connection between the bogus trial and a new smuggling operation into Central America, and joins forces with the DEA to unmask the elusive carrier.
However, their intelligence depends on former operative Neil DeWitt, now behind bars for his crimes. After a plea deal secures his place in the investigation, only time will tell if he has mended his ways or is simply concealing his true motives.
As their team inches closer to answers, Abby glimpses a different side of Neil but still struggles to believe he has changed. As for Neil, he must decide if he can betray her trust for the chance at a new life – or, if in saving her, discover the only way to save himself.
More info →Take My Hand
Trauma therapist Kaley Colbert needs a vacation from her job, and a ski trip with her church singles’ group seems like the perfect way to unplug. But while in the mountains, she learns that her last client was murdered hours after their meeting, and she wonders if the notes she’s receiving from a possible stalker hold a more sinister warning.
On the trip, ex-boyfriend and entrepreneur Reef Mitchell wants to give their relationship another chance, but Kaley questions if his past and priorities could ever mesh with her life. When her client’s underworld connections catch up with her, she has no choice but trust Reef to help her stay alive, solve her client’s mystery, and bring the killers to justice.
More info →Hold Your Breath
Serial dater and travel blogger Jayna Scott lands a dream assignment in Bimini, Bahamas at Mario Delgado’s resort. But after she falls hard and fast for her host, she discovers his terrible secret. Her flight instinct sends her to the mountains of North Carolina on a trip with a Tampa church group, but Mario pursues her, determined to prove his actions were justified.
Private investigator Liam Bracken helps his best friend plan a surprise engagement in Beech Mountain to the woman he once liked. Now, the mysterious Jayna, the new addition to their group, tugs at his heart, but his instincts warn him she’s running from something. When Jayna emerges at the epicenter of his agency’s high-profile drug investigation, Liam prays he can save her—and guard his heart at the same time.
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