Linda Rettstatt

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2007
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • And The Truth Will Set You Free

    Sometimes life forces us into the place we’re meant to be. After thirty years in the same job, Kate Reynolds becomes a statistic. She’s been downsized, and not in a good way. When the shock clears, Kate considers options. Maybe it’s now time to...

  • Pieces

    Claire gazed into the well. She could see blue sky dotted with clouds, reflecting in the dark water below. Then, the sensation of falling. She found herself near the bottom of the well, clinging to a slimy rope, hanging just inches above the dank, bl...

  • Finding Hope

    Janet DeMarco is having one of those days. She feels underappreciated, underestimated, and misunderstood. She accidentally resigns from her job and, when her husband finds it amusing, she hands in her resignation to her family, as well. Janet becomes...

  • The Restoration of Abby Walker

    Abby Mulgrew is counting on two things to breathe life back into her marriage: the Alaskan cruise she and her husband, Wil, have planned, and the see-through negligee she has purchased for the trip. Within the first twenty-fours hours of the cruise t...

  • Next Time I'm Gonna Dance

    Facing possible death forces Emmie Steele to examine her life. She has plenty she could regret--like her choice in a husband. She's surprised to discover her greatest regret is that she never learned to dance. Now as she faces breast cancer for the s...

  • Shooting Into The Sun

    Never shoot into the sun--a rule photographer Rylee Morgan learned early in life. Rules have always kept Rylee on course, always kept her safe. But a cross country trip with her younger sister and the hitchhiker Lexie picks up force Rylee to question...

  • Love, Sam

    Sam Preston is the one person in whom Trish Garrity has found the acceptance she's yearned for since childhood. When leukemia claims Sam only six years into their relationship, Trish is shattered. She's guided through her grief and back into life by ...

  • Reinventing Christmas

    You can go home again but, as M.J. Rich learns, you can't expect things to remain as you left them. M.J. promises Brady Cameron an experience of a family Christmas he'll never forget. Unfortunately, she's right. It's one she'll never forget, either. ...

  • Wake Up Call

    Candace Hudson wants a husband and babies. But a recent nasty break-up has her rethinking the husband part of the equation. Griff Calhoun, a divorced father and the product of divorce, wants to share his wealth and Texas cattle ranch to open a summer...



  • The Promise Tree

    Trudi McNeil Sheppard and Wynn Colton have a history that reaches back into their childhood. They were playmates, then dating teens who became lovers until they went their separate ways for college. Thirty years later Trudi and Wynn meet again and th...

  • Act of Contrition

    The argument ended as blinding headlights bore down on her. The steering wheel spun beneath Jenny’s fingers. A horn blared, and then…nothing. Jennifer Barnes wakens to learn she is the sole survivor of the crash that claimed her husband and eight...

  • A Falling Star

    Actor Spence Parker's career teeters on the brink of ruin thanks to a fling with the slightly crazed and drug-addicted daughter of a powerful and well-loved Hollywood film producer. Taking the advice of his agent, Spence takes a little vacation away ...

  • Dark Horse

    Private investigator Vanna Marbury arrives in Lexington to search for a stolen thoroughbred. She boards her daughter’s horse at Big Sky Stables and becomes curious about the mysterious black colt the owner keeps sequestered in the barn. Stable owne...

  • Unconditional

    “Unconditional is an important story about love, redemption, family and the amazing power of forgiveness. The heart and love can expand endlessly and these characters are setting the pace.” ~ Kris Radish, Bestselling Author of A Grand Day to Get ...

  • In The Spirit

    Author Jessica Windsor has a serious case of writer’s block. How can she write a romance novel with a broken heart? Andrew McCabe’s spirit has lingered for two years in the mountain cabin waiting for justice so he can pass to the hereafter. Ben G...

  • Protection

    Jake Garber is a new man after being placed in the witness protection program pending a Federal child-trafficking case in which he’s a witness. Shannon Chase is the identity stolen by a young woman escaping her past to protect her child. A foggy ni...

  • Rescued

    Alexandra Ramsey has been rescuing strays since she was abandoned by her mother at the age of seven. Now Alex’s passion is poured into Harley’s Haven, the no-kill animal shelter she built from scratch in Cade's Point, Mississippi. Evan Whiting ro...

  • Quiet Time

    What must it be like to float just beneath the surface, just out of reach of the lights, the sounds, the life going on around you? How long will it take before those who love you and gather to keep watch stop pleading with you to return and accept th...

  • Ladies in Waiting

    Five very different women, each carrying her own secret, meet on the Jersey shore for a retreat: Embracing the New You: Reinventing Yourself After Fifty. A story about change, self-acceptance, and sisterhood. The flyer reads: Embracing the New You: R...



  • Renting to Own

    Renting to own not only describes Lily Champion’s rental arrangement, it describes her life. But Lily’s learned that sometimes when the ground shifts beneath you, it moves you to where you need to be. *** Lily Champion lost her mother when she wa...

  • Flight of Fancie

    “We have to talk.” Four words no bride wants to hear two days before her fairytale wedding. Instead of saying ‘I told you so,’ Fancie Hollensby’s bridesmaids take her away on a non-honeymoon. They reassure that, with distance and time, she ...

  • The Real Thing

    Jane and Mitch Devereaux have had what appeared to be an unshakable marriage--until now. Jane's sudden success as an author and Mitch's dissatisfaction with the changes in their life drive a wedge between them. When Jane uses their sex life to practi...

  • After the Fall

    After the Fall (An inspirational romance) Love and faith are fragile, hearts and spirits easily broken. But everyone deserves a second chance. ~ * ~ Molly Daniels and her fourteen-year-old daughter leave an abusive situation in Chicago to start over ...

  • Love, Finally

  • Wake-Up Call

    She's a city girl with her own agenda and it does not include a man. He's a cowboy with a plan that requires her professional help, but he's had it with women. Candace and Griff are both in for a Wake-Up Call....

  • Smooth Sailing

    When recently-divorced Edie Montgomery discovers the cruise she's been booked on is called the Meet Your Mature Match cruise, she wants to grab her luggage and run. Widower Adam Armstrong is kicking himself for taking on the assignment of reviewing a...

  • Rescued...Too

    After serving as her sister's Maid of Honor, Kellie Ramsey is ready for a new chapter in her own life. The only thing louder than the wedding bells in her head is the ticking of her biological clock. The problem--the guy she's been dating is not the ...

  • The Game

    J.C. Wylde--The Wylde Man--was on top of the game as a World Series winning pitcher for the Long Beach Herons until a devastating injury sidelined him and just may end his career. Caroline Cleary, a nurse practitioner who grew up competing with two o...

  • Ghost Walk

    They say the past cannot be changed. Nick Barton learns it cannot be easily silenced, either. His home town is a ghost town, in many ways, and the founders of Clarkston aren’t giving up the ghost just yet. They have a plan to revive Clarkston. They...



  • Can I Get a Witness?

    Can I Get A Witness?: A Nosy Nuns Mystery Novelette - When Racine Booker witnesses a brutal murder in an alley the night before Halloween, she is spirited away to the convent at Saint Malachi's. The sisters there offer refuge until the murderer can b...

  • Father, Where Art Thou?

    Sisters Mary Jo Brunetto and Gabriel Schmidtzer stumble upon an apparent crime scene when they discover Saint Malachi's Church unlocked and brightly lit in the middle of the night. Father Sergei Yerkhov, a visiting priest at Saint Malachi's, has g...

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Christmas is rapidly approaching and the parishioner who typically plays Santa Claus for the St. Malachi's Christmas party is sidelined with pneumonia. When a homeless man takes shelter in the school two nights before Christmas, Sister Gabriel get...

  • A Kiss for Christmas

    Liv has been divorced for almost two years. Her ex-husband is serving time for securities and investment fraud. The fall was hard and fast, and Liv found herself homeless and broke. She met author Nick Belasco and, while she finds him attractive, she...

  • Love, Finally...

    What happens after Liv, Andi, Markie, Julia and Cee Cee leave the women's retreat? If you read Ladies In Waiting, you might be wondering this too. Love...Finally is Julia's happy ending after the ending....

  • Gone to the Dogs

    When her best friend is injured in a sky-diving accident, Emily Price jumps at the chance to flee New York and give Carrie the support she needs. Ransom Cove, the small town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, turns out to be just what Emily needs to over...

  • Long Walk, Short Pier

    Blaire Copeland is told she’s going through ‘the change.’ Between hot flashes and mood swings, she tries to figure out what she’s changing into. At fifty-five, she thought she'd slip quietly into menopause. She was so wrong. Her mother tells ...

  • A Private Practice

    Someone is murdering men around the city of Pittsburgh. The victims have one thing in common—they’ve all been identified as perpetrators of domestic violence. Detectives Susan Wycoff and Frank Dillard are on the case. Their only clue̵...

  • Unwritten

    Author Amanda McDonnell finds herself stranded in a small Texas town that’s not even on the map. She is soon confronted by a mystery and caught up in an impossible fantasy. It seems the characters she had discarded from her stories have come to lif...

  • Let There Be Light

    The sisters at St. Malachi's convent are offered the use of a beach house on the Jersey Shore at the close of the school year. Everyone can use a vacation, and the nuns are no exception. What could possibly go wrong? With the Nosy Nuns--just about an...



  • Beached

    Christine Landers is facing sixty. Having been widowed for two years and forced to close her failing art supplies business, she sells out and moves to Savannah to be near her daughter and grandchildren. She's not yet sure where she belongs but being ...

  • Falling for Mr. Christmas

    Cassidy Milford is heading to a holiday reunion with high school friends when she’s caught in a blizzard. She gets off the highway, heading down a side road into Falls Village where she might find shelter for the night. But it’s Christmas...

  • Running in Place

    Callie Regan has commitment issues. Everyone seems to see this except Callie. Which, when she comes to the same realization, makes her question her own skills as a therapist. She’s learned that the best way to confront a problem is to keep movi...

  • Chloe's Choice

    April Hanover returns to her small hometown in Delaware to recover from a bad break-up and to try to convince her father to retire and sell the family business. Mike Grainger moved back to Parkville after his wife died and left him a single parent to...

  • Sarah's Second Act

    Sarah Slater has a made a career of turning herself into someone else. And she’s very good at it. A horrific accident puts her acting career on hold for two years and leaves Sarah a stranger to herself. She’s desperate to find solid footi...

  • A Christmas Homecoming

    PFC Kate Milner did not expect to be suddenly called up and deployed to Afghanistan. It was a six month deployment. She would be back with her husband and son before Christmas. And she was—just not in the way she expected. With a shattered ankl...

  • Tattered Hearts

    A heart that opens itself to love, opens itself to the risk of getting broken or, at the very least, being torn by loss. Those scars left behind are badges of courage, witness to the risks taken, the love given and received. The love still held withi...

  • Christmas Present

    Sometimes the greatest gift we can give is time and the sharing of a sweet memory. Connie Stockton has not seen Douglas Miller for fifty-two years, since he left for college with a promise he'd return to her. Now, his son appears to seek a favor from...

  • Reasonable Doubt

    Nurse Gemma Wallace is held suspect when opioids go missing from the neighborhood clinic where she works. She’s questioned, but never arrested or charged because the police have no solid proof and an abundance of reasonable doubt. Still the sus...

  • Mister Fix-It

    Suddenly widowed, Maura learned it was time to sink or swim. She decided to swim and took lessons for survival as a self-possessed woman. She’s vice-president of the HOA and spearheading a new project, Lend-a-Hand, to benefit her neighbors in F...



  • The Game Changer

    J.C. and Caroline thought they finally had their game all worked out. Newly married and settling into the house J.C. bought for Caroline, the couple is soon faced with one game changer after another that could end some marriages.Will Jace and Caro fi...

  • Union Station

    A small Pennsylvania river town that was once booming in business and commerce provides the setting for stories over a period of seventy years. The Union Station, built in 1929 on the cusp of the Great Depression, stood as a testament to growth and p...

  • A Calico Christmas

    A poignant and heartwarming story. Cali, a calico kitten, is separated from her mother and siblings. Her mother always told them if they got lost to go to a safe place and wait for her to come for them. Cali ventures further from home than she realiz...

  • A Calico Christmas and Other Stories

  • Late Bloomers

    Daisy, Rose, Lily, Violet, and Iris—Five successful women with years of hard work and dedication among them. Retirement and life circumstances prompt each woman to re-evaluate her life choices once she comes face to face with the holes in her o...

  • Almost Heaven

    Have you ever wondered what's on the other side of this life? Does heaven exist? Perhaps nothing exists. Annie Crawford hasn't given it all that much thought until she's hit by a garbage truck and wakes up in a strange place that's so perfectly the l...

  • Child's Play

    Two young boys digging in an excavator pit at a closed city playground unearth more than they expected. The body of a woman who was strangled has been buried in the shallow sand pit.Homicide detective Susan Wycoff and her new partner, Donovan Casey g...

  • Like Old Times

    Sometimes love isn’t lost. It’s misplaced for a while.Maddie and Noah Alborn have taken pride in the way they handled their divorce after twenty-four years of marriage. The week before Christmas, their daughter calls on them to stay with ...

  • The Liberation of Libby

    Libby Baxter loves her job as a real estate agent, and she’s very good at it. She’s excelled in her field for thirty years. But when she fends off the advances of her much-older boss, leaving him in a fetal position on the break room floo...

  • A Private Pratice

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    Someone is murdering men around the city of Pittsburgh. The victims have one thing in common-they've all been identified as perpetrators of domestic violence. Detectives Susan Wycoff and Frank Dillard are on the case. Their only clue-the letter carve...

  • The Year I Lost My Mind

    • / Women's Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    On her fiftieth birthday, Beth Rutledge takes time to review her life, considering her choices. She's unhappy, but something is nagging at her. Something's missing and she has to find out what it is. The Year I Lost My Mind is one woman's story of fa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Linda Rettstatt has published 60 books.

Linda Rettstatt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Liberation of Libby, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Linda Rettstatt, And The Truth Will Set You Free, was published in July 2007.

No. Linda Rettstatt does not write books in series.
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