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The Missing Piece

Inspirational Love Story
Carol McCormick

2013 Gold Medal
270 Pages
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2013 Gold Medal
 
GOLD MEDAL WINNER: Reader's Favorite International Book Award for Christian Romance. 

"Fresh dialogue, realistic characters, a powerful message. McCormick does a great job creating her characters and portraying the struggles they endure," The Romance Readers Connection.

How does a man pick up the pieces when his world crashes around him? Misplaced priorities shattered his marriage. Problems almost crushed him. Love motivated him to mend the damage, once he found all the pieces. 

After only a few months of marriage, Lorraine left Dylan on a wintry night after he'd spent one too many nights out with the guys. Unable to cope with the loss, Dylan escapes the painful feelings by drinking them away. This decision costs him a year-and-a-half of his life after he stops in a little mountain town and ends up in the local jail. When he's released, he returns home in search of a job to get his life--and his wife back. 

THE MISSING PIECE is not only a love story about a man who loves a woman, but is also a love story about a merciful God who loves mankind, even when he falls. The novel is an emotionally-charged journey of hope and redemption with a touch of spunk, a hint of humor, and a few twists along the way.

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ONCE

Ask Me Anything, not Love
Mian Mohsin Zia

2013 Finalist
142 Pages
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2013 Finalist
What would you do if you hurt the woman you loved beyond what is in human nature to forgive? That is the problem that Morkel has to overcome. As the celebrated author, 'M---, No Time for Love', Morkel has vowed to never write a love story, or a story with a female protagonist. A staunch bachelor, Morkel is set in his ways; he has vowed to never fall in love. However, during a holiday in Kiev Morkel meets a 'person of interest'; someone who will change his life forever. Though, as his name suggests, he still has 'no time for love'. Unfortunately, as he is about to learn, love has time for him and it has come knocking at the door of his heart. Will he open the door or ignore the knocking? Will he abandon the title he has worked so hard to create, and, by so doing, forge for himself a new title and destiny? How long can love wait for Morkel? How long will Morkel wait for love?

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Sarah's Gift

Skye Wieland

2013 Honorable Mention
360 Pages
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2013 Honorable Mention
Sarah's Gift is the first book of Skye Wieland's Dare to Follow trilogy about a group of friends who find God and themselves in the midst of adventure, danger, and amazing vista. Sarah White, an Aussie horse trainer running away from her past, tries to start a new life at a safari business in South Africa. Elephant culling, strange recurring dreams, and a supernatural encounter lead her to discovering an amazing gift she has. Will she use this gift or remain paralyzed by her traumatizing memories?

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The Wooing of Jane Grey

C.E. Hilbert

2013 Bronze Medal
272 Pages
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2013 Bronze Medal
Jane Grey's life was fine. Fabulous career: check. Faithful friend: check. Serving in the church nursery: check. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. And yet… Jane had promised herself she'd never let life become predictable. Now she finds herself thirty-something, feeling a bit lumpy, lonely and lost. A nagging pit in her stomach tells her she desperately needs a change. Proving He has a sense of humor, the Lord deposits not one, but two handsome suitors into Jane's life-seemingly overnight! Practical Paul Wade, a successful attorney, seems Jane's perfect match… on paper. Meanwhile, pro hockey hunkster Lindy Barrett is clearly out of her league… or is he? To decide, Jane must finally seek out that sweet spot lying somewhere between her head and her heart. Whose woo will win the heart of Jane Grey? God knows, but He's not telling!

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Gypsy's Game

Delia Latham

2012 Finalist
270 Pages
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2012 Finalist
Gypsy Lovell stands to inherit an enormous amount of money from a father who never gave her anything but a ridiculous name. Even now, he doesn't make it easy. A stipulation in the man's will demands that Gypsy be married in order to claim what is hers. Desperate for the monetary windfall that could save her ailing mother's life, Gypsy visits a Christian dating agency, hoping to find a temporary husband'Someone easy to handle for the required six months and easy to get rid of when she no longer needs him. Jal Garridan is neither of those things, but he's willing to take on the challenge presented by the beautiful stranger'on his own terms. What Gypsy doesn't know is that Solomon's Gate is a dating agency with a Divine connection. What she finds there may save more than her mother's life. It may save Gypsy's soul.

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Living Inside The Testimony

A Testimony of GOD's Amazing Love and Abundant Blessings
Betty Collier

2012 Finalist
112 Pages
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2012 Finalist
Living Inside The Testimony is a collection of anecdotes compiled by author Betty Collier. In reading these stories, you will share in her journey and experience the inspiration, faith, hope, humor, romance, and love she experienced. The stories in Living Inside The Testimony revolve around Betty's experiences with her family, friends, and other individuals who have contributed, often unknowingly, to the path God has chosen for her. You will hear the story of how Betty fell in love at age fourteen (with her future husband), about her husband's near-death experience with emergency brain surgery at a young age, her experiences in New York a week prior to 9/11, and the frustrating ordeal she and her husband overcame when trying to build their dream home.

Betty attributes her success and her great love to God, and she shares with readers how God has orchestrated her life's path every step of the way. Betty's prayer is that you will see and feel Proverbs 3:5-6 come alive and speak to your heart as you take a walk with her, inside her testimony. She hopes you enjoy the journey and discover that we all live inside testimonies meant to be shared with others.

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Lonely Hearts

Amanda Stephan

2012 Silver Medal
240 Pages
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2012 Silver Medal
One lonely mother. Two matchmaking kids. Three eligible bachelors, and some very yummy apple pie!

When widow Becky Callis moves to a new town, her intentions were to start over in a place where she's not reminded of her dead husband. Her kids, however, take it as a chance to help her start over romantically. They soon realize it's easier to find someone to like their mother than it is to figure out which man is best for her.

To the delight of both kids, young and handsome cowboy Scott Boone makes his interest plain and starts courting Becky almost immediately. 

But Jack Anderson and Becky have been friends since childhood. When they're reunited years after their lives have taken very different paths, this lonely preacher begins to wonder if God has brought her back into his life for a reason. 

Pearce Morgan is a single parent raising his young daughter. Divorced and disillusioned, an unlikely friendship arises between him and Becky when his shy daughter decides she loves Becky and her kids.

Lonely Hearts, is a heartwarming story of second chances and choices, and includes an exclusive apple pie recipe!

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The Disposable Noble Wife

Beth Durkee

2011 Silver Medal
183 Pages
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2011 Silver Medal

The 2011 Reader’s Favorite Silver Award Winner in Christian Romance


Faith is a tenured homemaker who loves her husband and children. She has endured many trials in her marriage, but none quite so difficult as the one she is about to experience. When she discovers her husband in the back seat of their family car with another woman, she turns to scripture for guidance and discovers, to her dismay, an obligation that is contrary to what the world prescribes. After her adult son suggests she keep a daily journal, she begins to record an adultery-spawned craziness that she never even dreamed could apply to any life, much less her previously loving marriage.

This book appears to be a heartbreaking tale of one woman’s futile struggle to spare her family from being torn apart by adultery. On a deeper level, it is much more. To the spiritually trained eye, it is also a strong example of mankind’s natural bent to reject unconditional love in favor of carnal desire, his self-interested disobedience to divine command and his own stubbornness being his ultimate undoing.

CAUTION: This is a love-it-or-hate-it read.

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Courting Constance

Teryl Cartwright

2011 Gold Medal
282 Pages
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2011 Gold Medal
If marriage was an occupation, Constance was determined to enjoy her search for employment. Men, after all, made it easy to fall in love. Sadly, though, they also made it just as difficult to stay in love. Constance was not going to settle for an ordinary life as a wife. She just had to convince a certain someone as well as herself that a wedding could be the beginning of some adventures instead of the end of them.

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Smoke Before the Wind

Diana Wallis Taylor

2010 Gold Medal
220 Pages
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2010 Gold Medal
He was every girl's dream... Carrie Dickson can hardly believe her good fortune-engaged to the handsome and rich Andrew Van Zant, she returns home to her beloved mountain community and to her family to make final preparations for her fast-approaching wedding. While there, she renews her friendship with Scott Spencer, a young man she had a secret crush on in high school. Scott's strong Christian commitment causes Carrie to examine her own faith-and her fiancé's-and her growing awareness triggers in her troubled feelings and jeopardizes her happiness. But with the wedding only weeks away, Carrie resolves to make the best of the future she willingly chose with the man she has promised to marry. However, when Andrew finally arrives in the mountain town to meet Carrie's parents, things don't go as planned. Her cousin Linda, who has always considered Carrie's boyfriends fair game, exposes Andrew's true motives and Carrie is faced with the reality of the direction she is going. Confused over the pressure from Andrew for a hasty marriage, as well as her burgeoning feelings for Scott, Carrie realizes that only God's strength and wisdom can help her choose the right path. She feels she needs more time. But, before she and Andrew can talk, a raging forest fire erupts and threatens all she holds dear. Carrie has only moments to make the decision that will forever change her life . . . Diana Wallis Taylor is the author of Journey to the Well (Revell, 2009) and Wings of the Wind (Pleasant Word, 2008)-her first book of poetry. Taylor is active in her church's music ministry and Professional Women's Fellowship group. She serves on the board of the San Diego Christian Writer's Guild where she has received awards for fiction, poetry, and songwriting. She lives with her husband in San Diego, California.