EPPIE WINNER, Anthology

TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE - Volume 1 by Jewels Of The Quill
Genre: Anthology
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-373-4
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-372-7

TWELVE DISTINCTIVE AUTHORS offer new, short, exciting Tales from the Treasure Trove--each featuring a sparkling jewel!

TWELVE COMPELLING CHARACTERS discover romance, magic, suspense, second chances, true love, and the supernatural.

TWELVE ENTERTAINING SITUATIONS feature reincarnated lovers, thieves, vampires, angels, musicians and blind dates, mysterious jewels, masks, worlds...and even dragons!

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EPPIE FINALIST, Mystery

THE QUEEN ANNE FOX by Jerol Anderson
Genre: Suspense
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-189-1
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-190-7

Two bodies, necks snapped, like a fox strikes its prey. Jessica Tyson, searching for the killer while gaining self-understanding, travels the world of prostitution and the dark mind of a murderer. One suspect becomes her lover, as others surface, including a kind philanthropist, spinning children's tales of Queen Anne Fox. For Jessica the path leading to the killer is filled with shadows of her past and life lessons for a brighter future.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Mystery

THE SUMMER BONES - A DANNY HAASE MYSTERY NOVEL by Katherine Smith
Genre: Romance Mystery
SubGenre: Mystery
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-256-0
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-255-3

A woman searching for answers…
When her sister, Emily, vanishes, Victoria Paulsen returns home to find herself immersed in acrimony, ugly doubt, and shocking family revelations.
A man tied to a shrouded past...
Damon Paulsen is the chief suspect in a murder and is in love with a woman he can never possess. Questioned by the police and bound by honor to a secret that was never his to reveal, he fears that one woman's folly will tear his world into shreds.
A cop looking for peace instead finds a possible serial killer...

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EPPIE FINALIST, Romance/Historical

WAYWARD SUN by Katherine Smith
Genre: Romance Western
Subgenre: Westerns
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-170-9
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-171-6

A sense of honor, no matter how tattered, can be an inconvenient nemesis …
Notorious and exiled, Ross Braden needs to keep a low profile. The last thing he wants when he leaves the stodgy halls of Boston for the wilds of untamed Colorado is to drag along a spoiled aristocratic lady.
A strange country with no friends or fortune …
Lady Arianne Brooke is desperate to escape the past and terrified of the future. Forced to hinge her life on an enigmatic and handsome stranger, she trades her soul for the chance to escape a danger that haunts her every waking moment.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Romance/Sci-Fi Futuristic

A WINDOW IN TIME by Carolyn Lampman
Genre: Romance Historical
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-256-4
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-257-7

Brianna Daniels sails along enjoying her first hot air balloon ride, unaware of 15 year-old Scott Martin who tinkers on his computer below. Neither is aware of the time warp he creates until Brianna is sucked in and lands in 1860. Suddenly she finds herself on the way to the Split Rock Pony Express station as a mail-order bride for the station-master, Lucas Daniels, her own great-great-grandfather.
But Lucas didn’t send for a wife nor is he impressed with her twenty-first century attitudes. The two instantly clash in a battle of wills that threatens to set the prairie ablaze. Conflict isn’t all that sparks between them as unexpected passions flare and the 21st century meets the 19th head on.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Single Title/Mainstream

'TIL THE END OF TIME by Sabra Brown Steinsiek
Genre: Romance Contemporary
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-180-8
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-179-2

When Broadway star Taylor Morgan met reporter Laura Collins in Albuquerque, he had no idea of the twists and turns their life together would take. Twenty-five years after that meeting, he is at the top of his Broadway career, Laura is an acclaimed writer, and they are parents to three daughters, grandparents to one.

With their youngest child, Annie, ready to leave the nest, they are looking forward to a new chapter in their lives and time for themselves. Instead, they find themselves faced
with their greatest challenge when Laura is offered the writing assignment of a lifetime in unsettled Bosnia—an assignment with unexpected consequences.

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EPPIE FINALIST, Erotica Without Paranormal

THE GIFT by Honey Jans
Genre: Torrid Romance Contemporary
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-309-3
Rating: Erotica - Controversial

Penelope Hart is a lonely librarian. Unfortunately, the only men at the library are Mr. Powel and Victor Deveroux, the handsome but snooty new library board chairman. Victor’s dark good looks make Penny’s heart race, though he’s never more than polite to her. One day, Penny finds a gift from a secret admirer on her desk. The scandalous package contains a red paddle. The attached note hints at sweet submission that both shocks and turns Penny on. A series of other naughty gifts follow, finally culminating in an invitation to meet the giver at a discreet hotel. Drawn into a world of heady sensuality, Penny learns that submissiveness can be deliciously powerful.

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WITH BLACK AND WHITE COMES THE GREY

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Cover Artist Nora Baxter

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