DECEMBER TEXAS BOOK PREVIEW
Preview of Texas-connected books publishing in December, 2025
TEXAS AUTHORS CLOSE OUT 2025 WITH GIFTS FOR EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST
Our December Texas Books Preview has offerings for the trickiest people on your holiday list. You’ll find mysteries for the thrill seekers, holiday romance for the Hallmark fans, nonfiction for the studious set, and adorable tales for the littles in your life.
Lily Barnes believes her sister Jewel is trying to kill her–but it’s Jewel who ends up dead. What secret was Jewel keeping that might have led to her death?
Meanwhile, Chief of Police Samuel Craddock is investigating a case of suspected toxic dumping outside the city limits. A millionaire Houston oilman is involved in the cover-up of the dumping.
Are the two cases linked? The answer leads to one of the most difficult decisions Craddock has ever had to make as a lawman. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
In this third installment of the Pup Series, everyone’s favorite sleepy pup gets a wake-up call when he moves from the city to the country.
Giddy Up, Pup! gives readers more fun with the beloved pup while introducing new critters and mischief. Set in a West Texas landscape beautifully illustrated by Jenae Rogers, this book follows in the footsteps of Wake Up, Pup! and The Not So Tough Pup with a fun and repetitive rhyme scheme that will delight young readers again and again.
A companion to the Stones of Iona series. In a land divided by politics and pride, Alex MacDougall—Scotland’s Lord Justice Clerk—walks a perilous line between duty to the crown and his secret oath to protect outlawed Highland traditions.
Sent to recover a mystical stone tied to Scotland’s destiny, he meets Lady Iris Erskine, an Englishwoman disguised as a Highland lass. Passion ignites as deception and loyalty collide. When dark Fae magic threatens the MacDougall clan, Alex must choose between the law he serves and the woman who’s stolen his heart.
Hope All the Way is a soulful, stirring invitation to see life—and loss—through a different lens. In this compassionate and candid follow-up to My Grief Is Not Like Yours, Theo Boyd shares her personal story of moving through traumatic grief and into healing and hope.
Whether you are walking through fresh grief or carrying a decades-old ache, this book reminds you that healing doesn’t mean forgetting. It means simply finding hope in unexpected places and learning to live, love, and believe again. Hope isn’t just a feeling. It’s a divine invitation to keep going—all the way.
Piran Chegwin had known since he was just a boy that he wanted to be a priest – to bring comfort and care to ordinary folk in a little parish church. So when his father manages to scrape together the money for him to study theology at Oxford, it seems his future is set.
That is, until he encounters Martin de Villiers, an ambitious, self-important fellow student who takes an instant dislike to Piran. Piran’s only offense? Having been born a Cornishman.
Journey with Piran from Oxford to the papal court in Avignon to the wind-swept headland of Tintagel as powerful men try to protect him from slander, violence, and even the Black Death. Will they succeed? And will Piran ever realize his boyhood dream?
On the lawless plains of the Texas Panhandle, Jacob Harker, a homesteader consumed by grief after Comanches murder his family, embarks on a relentless quest for retribution across the unforgiving prairie, risking his life, his soul, and his very humanity.
White Knife, an enigmatic Comanche leader, is haunted by his own tragedy — the murder of his wife and unborn child at the hands of white soldiers—and torn between tradition and the encroaching tide of change.
As Jacob and White Knife’s paths converge, both men must confront the cost of vengeance and the possibility of redemption.
Mira Garvie thought her family’s legacy died with her parents – until a cryptic inheritance draws her to the mist-shrouded highlands of Scotland.
There, haunted by visions of another woman’s life and hunted by forces she can’t explain, Mira finds herself face-to-face with two men as dangerous as they are irresistible. As the veil between past and present unravels, Mira must confront the truth about her inheritance, her clairvoyant curse, and the wicked pull of the man who shattered her rational world – because loving him feels as dangerous as it does inevitable.
Within these pages, authors from around the world honor the spirit of the wolf in tales that span the mystical and the modern, the feral and the familiar.
From legends of the first howls to stories of companionship, sacrifice, and survival, Spirit of the Wolf explores the timeless bond between wolves and humans. Wolves are the guardians of the wilderness and reflections of our own souls. Each story sings with the essence of the pack: loyalty, freedom, courage, and the enduring hope that even in captivity, the wild heart endures.
A blind detective. A masked killer. One deadly Christmas.
Blind PI Steve Smiley’s quiet Christmas plans shatter when Branson entertainer Candy Caine receives death threats from someone claiming to be Krampus.
After a terrifying smoke-filled attack in her dressing room, the message is clear: pay or die. With his canine protector and team, Smiley must unmask a killer hiding behind folklore’s most fearsome Christmas demon—before Candy’s final performance becomes her last.
Tinsel, Trees And Treachery is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie-style whodunits who love clever plots without the gore, violence, or explicit scenes.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
There are so many Texas-connected books publishing this month that we couldn’t feature all of them. The following books also publish in December:
CHILDREN'S, MIDDLE GRADE, & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
The Fairy’s Revenge by Kendra E. Ardnek
It’s Too Windy by Patty York Raymond
So Much To Be Seen! by Michael Wade Brown
The Traveling Tuxedo: Christmas Adventures in Grapevine, TX by Melissa Coyle
Who is She? by Susie Chambers
FANTASY / SCI-FI
Ashes of Eternity by Trista Ricketts
Dangerous Company by Michael Anderle
Eagleminder by Lindsay Cummings
Finding Ramanata by Robyn Dabney
Firemage by Lindsay Cummings
Lethal License by Michael Anderle
The Librarian And The Mad Scientist of the Apocalypse by Brian Yansky
Miner War by Jaxon Reed
Questline Sabotage by C.R. Rowenson & Michael Anderle
Shadow of the Unifier by Bradford Bates & Michael Anderle
A Sword of Plated Gold by Evangaline Pierce
Temptation by M.R. Parsons
Top Duck by Jaxon Reed
Turning the Wright Way by Maria Grace
Waif & See by Renée Jaggér & Michael Anderle
Whispers of Mayhem by Aurora Ramsden
The Worst Admiral in the Star Cluster by Skyler Ramirez
MYSTERY / HORROR
Beyond Control by Kat Martin
A Bone to Pick by Liliana Hart
Campaign for Murder by Becki Willis
Crystal Clear Revelations by Leanne Leeds
Dig Two Graves by Brittany E. Brinegar
The Fatal Saving Grace by Jim Nesbitt
Flowers, Felines & Forgery by Amy Briggs
Grilled Corruption by Erica J Whelton
Gumbo & Grudges by Erica J Whelton
It’s Me by Samara Cove
Midnight Somewhere by Johnny Compton
Peril Off Padre by Carolyn Hart
Red Grade by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Red Velvet and a Murder by L.B Dayton
Secret Room to Die For by Jovie Grace
A Sprite Christmas by Eva Pohler
Stained Glass, Sleighs and Secrets by Linda Carroll-Bradd
The Suicide Catacombs by Sonia Blade
then comes Death, and by Cree Nations
Tiramisu and Trouble by Nova Walsh
Trapped and Tested by Sharon Marchisello
Trouble in the Tearoom by Jenna Maeson
Verses and Curses by Sarah Noffke
NONFICTION
Abuse of Power by Mark Shaw
Armed Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in the Texas–Northeastern Mexico Borderlands by Luis Alberto Garcia-Garcia
Befriending Betsy by Jen Braaksma and Betsy Pauly
Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest by Brian D. Behnken
East Nashville Skyline by Brian T. Atkinson
Favorite Flies for Texas by Chris Johnson
Light in Dark Places by Matthew Nayons
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken
The Rise of Houston as a Global City by Geoffrey Connor
Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical by Andy Doolen
Under Texas Skies: Oil, Ranches, and Dreams That Shaped a State by Julie DeWees Sparks
OTHER FICTION
Amos Flagg – High Gun by Clay Randall & Clifton Adams
Borderland by T.A. Barnes
The Coward Rob Ford by Nicholas Osborn
Denver the (not so) Great by B.E. Baker
The Devereaux Legacy by Carolyn Hart
Elisabeth by Melissa Allred
Elmer Kelton’s The Blessing by John Bradshaw
Honor of the Star by Donald L. Robertson
Nash Walker: Trail to Denver by Patrick Lindsay
A Peach Blossom Christmas by Karen Randau
Texas Ranger Pharaoh Smith: Death Rides With The Rangers by J.W. Masterson
Things We Endure by Margaret T
POETRY
All My Lovers by Amy Bolding
ROMANCE
The Accidental Viking by Dakota Cassidy
Always Yours by Ginny Sterling
And a Smile by BA Tortuga
Ash’s Angel by Darlene Tallman
Back to Her Cowboy by Janalyn Knight
Behind the Scenes by Kimberly Page
Big Stick Energy by Ginny Sterling
A Bittersweet Beginning by Carrie Ann Ryan
Call of Honor by Alexa Verde
Christmas Park by Kailin Gow
Christmas Spirit by Tiffany Patterson
Collateral Love by Stephanie Morris
Cowboy Moon by Hazel K Ford
Cowboy Needed by BA Tortuga
Damaged Love by Lee Emery
December’s Bad Boy – Kingston by Eve London
Decked Out by Skye Turner
Duke by Jessica Peterson
The Earl’s Nun Bride by Hanna Hamilton
Forbidden Boss by Natasha L. Black
Fortune’s Mr. Right by Stella Bagwell
A Fourth Moment in Time by Susan Stoker
Goose Boy: The True Story of The Goose Girl by Kendra E. Ardnek
Her Texas Two-Step Cowboy by Sasha Summers
Holiday Friend Zones, Anthology
Hot Cocoa, Mistletoe & the Road Captain by Nat Logan
Just Breathe by Kathryn Kaleigh
Just for Grins by Indie Sparks
Keeper of My Heart by Traci Borum
A Killer in Texas by Jessica R. Patch
Lighting up the Biker by Liberty Parker
Lone Star Wanted by Delores Fossen
Loving the Highland Warrior by Michelle Miles
Married to a Frozen Duke by Dorothy Sheldon
Mail Order Christmas Bride by Charlotte Dearing
Midnight by Sharon Sala
Out of Ashes by Kathryn Kaleigh
Pack End Game by Drea Denae & Cassie James
Podium Perfect by Lexi Richards
Redemption at Rescue Ridge by Barb Han
Rescuing Her Firefighter by Carol Ross
Say My Name Again by Skye Kilean
The SEAL’s Best Friend by Wanda Amard
Shielded by the Cowboy by Connie Queen
Snowbound Christmas With My Boss by BWWM Love
The Texan Merchant’s Mail Order Bride by Jacqueline Carmine
Tinsel Tangled by Skye Turner
Toyland Cowboy by Annee Jones
Trapped by Suzanne Ferrell
Trouble in West Texas by Karen Whiddon
The Underboss by Day Leclaire
An Unexpected Texas Reunion by Heidi Main
What’s Forever Got to Do With It? by Debra Clopton
The Wild Card by Carolyn Brown