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Destiny Awaits

Juniper Grove Chronicles Book 1
Jaidis Shaw

2017 Finalist
274 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Finalist
She wants a normal life. They want her dead. Destiny has other plans.

Twenty-year-old Alayna Scott receives visions around water, but even her foresight couldn’t prepare her for the tragic accident that claimed the lives of her parents. With everything she loves gone, Alayna packs up and moves to the small town of Juniper Grove in hopes of starting over.

Jayden McKnight can’t explain the attraction that he feels whenever Alayna is near, but he does know that he will do whatever it takes to win her heart. When a vampire selects Alayna as his next victim, Jayden will stop at nothing to ensure her safety – even if that means bringing Alayna into a world that she never knew existed.

Love blossoms, challenges are made, and Alayna will find herself fighting not only to survive, but to understand what she has become.

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Prophecy Awakened

First in the Prime Prophecy Series
Tamar Sloan

2017 Honorable Mention
356 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Honorable Mention

On the first day of her new school all that shy, wounded Eden wants is to finish her senior year and escape to college. It can't be too much to ask for, can it?

Noah has spent two years not knowing why he failed to come of age as every one of his ancestors has. Two years drifting aimlessly, searching for direction...

When the two meet the connection is instantaneous and undeniable. A connection that has Eden running and Noah burning to know more.

A connection destined to be the catalyst for a prophecy that neither knew existed.

A prophecy others are willing to kill for.

As families rupture and struggle to realign, as their hearts connect and ignite, Eden learns to trust. But with their love and life on the line, Eden must find the power to believe.

Prophecy Awakened is the first book in Tamar Sloan's Prime Prophecy Series. If you enjoyed Stephanie Meyer, Lauren Kate or Maggie Stiefvater, then you'll love a series that captures their best traits in an epic, captivating story of a love that defies boundaries.

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Colt Harper

Esteemed Vampire Cat
Tyrolin Puxty

2017 Bronze Medal
189 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Bronze Medal
Colt Harper hates it when you pat a cat the wrong way, or when you upload their faux pas to YouTube. In fact, he’ll probably kill you for it.

As a self-proclaimed master vampire cat, Colt never imagined he’d be sent to community service at a revolting community theater. And for what? Killing humans who don’t buy the expensive brand of cat food? Talk about unfair.

Still, working with a nervous werewolf and a monster addicted to tickling wasn’t on his to-do list.

What’s worse, is he’s falling for a human. Sure, she has green eyes. Sure, she fosters stray cats. But she’s still a disgusting human.

So why is he risking his own life to save her from the chasers?

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The Ascension

Lauren Hudson

2017 Bronze Medal
202 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Bronze Medal
Grand Prize Winner Great Southwest Book Festival
Winner London Book Festival
Winner Great Southeast Book Festival
Winner Great Northwest Book Festival
Runner Up Northern California Book Festival Best YA Fiction
Runner Up Halloween Book Festival Best YA Fiction
Southern California and Great Midwest Book Festivals Honorable Mentions Best YA Fiction

Desdemona, Felix and Jinx live as only children in their ordinary houses with their ordinary parents. But on their fifteenth birthdays, at the stroke of midnight, they come to realize nothing is as it seems. Thrown into a world completely unknown, they learn the identity of their biological mother, Jane Anchor, a member of the mysterious Asterian race and a woman whose goal is terror and destruction.

As the Anchor kids enter The House, a group of Asterians who secretly co-exist with us to help mankind, Jane sets a plot in motion to lure her progeny to a fortress atop Truchas Peak. Seven days is all the Anchor kids have to liberate Asterians from Jane’s threatened reign of terror. Can three naïve, yet powerful kids confront evil and preserve a community of guardian angels on earth?

About the Author
Award-winning author, Lauren Hudson, co-authored her first book, Our Best Tomorrow, at age thirteen. She is the recipient of a Mom's Choice Gold Award, E-Lit Silver Award, Great Southeast Book Festival Award and young adult book awards at the New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco Book Festivals. A student at Dixie Height High School in Northern Kentucky, Lauren has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business News, and the Blaze.

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The Demon Conspiracy

Book #1 of The Demon Conspiracy Series
R. L. Gemmill

2017 Silver Medal
384 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Silver Medal
When Kelly Bishop and her brothers move in with a foster family in northern Virginia, it seems their lives can finally be normal again. That’s until they’re trapped deep within Pandora’s Cave. In the cave they witness a sinister pact between a powerful businessman and the Demon world that promises to launch the greatest war in history. The good news is the kids made a video of the entire event. The bad news is the video may still be in the demon-infested cave and nobody believes their story. The Demon Conspiracy is loaded with heart-pounding terror, deep mystery, and characters you will never forget. It is the only teen novel series required by the American Security Administration to post a warning about potential negative psychological effects on the reader. READ WITH CAUTION.

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Luminary

Luminary Saga Volume 1
P.S. Meraux

2017 Silver Medal
328 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Silver Medal
Who says you have only one soul mate? And you thought your life had drama. When a student in Georgia loses her soul mate and her back up soul mate without ever meeting either, her life takes an unexpected turn. A supernatural race known as Paragons and their Luminary companions must intervene. To help her they'll have to retrofit a man's existing soul to be the perfect match for Emily Wren. Retrofitting is a nasty, painful business. Yet it's the only option for insuring a soul mate match which releases much needed magic to advance the causes of humanity in the world. But is there more at stake than the happiness of one special human? Read Luminary, the first book in the Luminary Saga by P.S. Meraux.

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The Nearer The Dawn

Book One The Nearer The Dawn Saga 1
J.P. Barry

2017 Gold Medal
263 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Gold Medal
We all wear masks of secrecy. Some are small and insignificant while others are dark and forbidden. We wear them to mislead and deceive. It is, after all, easier to live a lie than to expose ourselves to the world. Exposure would leave us vulnerable. Yet, the truth could set us free; we hope. The moment we truly abandon all forgeries and remove our veil is the only time we can fully accept our true identity.

For Nina Luther living a lie is life in its purest form. As a child, Nina knew she and her entire family were different. The mortals who surround her, fear the unknowingness of what they will become. Nina has no such fear. She is all too aware that her time here on Earth will be plagued by her heavenly gift to help others; she despises this. All Nina desires is to be an average high school senior, but cannot hide from her divine destiny.

While adapting to her family’s recent move to Savannah, Georgia, Nina falls hard for Chase James, a mysterious loner with a dark and demonic secret of his own.

In this world there are saints and sinners. The difference between the two: every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Who will be the last one standing? Will the demonic uprising on Earth mean the end for the mortal angel Nina? Or will she live to die another day?

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Stillwell

A Haunting on Long Island
Michael Phillip Cash

2017 Gold Medal
191 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2017 Gold Medal
Paul Russo’s wife just died. While trying to get his family’s life back in order, Paul is being tormented by a demon who is holding his wife's spirit hostage on the other side. His fate is intertwined with an old haunted mansion on the north shore of Long Island called Stillwell Manor. Paul must find clues dating back hundreds of years to set his wife's soul free.

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Spirit Legacy

Book 1 of The Gateway Trilogy
E.E. Holmes

2016 Silver Medal
270 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2016 Silver Medal
“The Gateway is open..." These cryptic words wake college student Jess Ballard from a terrifying dream into an even more terrifying reality. Jess' life has never been what anyone would call easy; doing damage control in the wake of your nomadic, alcoholic mother doesn't exactly make for a storybook childhood. But now her world has fallen apart just when it should be coming together: her mother gone—dead under mysterious circumstances; her life uprooted to stay with estranged relatives she’s never met; and there’s something odd about some of the people she’s been meeting at school: They’re dead. Aided by Tia, her neurotic roommate, and Dr. David Pierce, a ghost-hunting professor, Jess must unravel the mystery behind her hauntings. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more danger shadows her every move. An ancient secret, long-buried, is about to claw its way to the surface, and nothing can prepare Jess for one terrifying truth...her encounters with the world of the dead are only just beginning. Spirit Legacy is the first of three thrilling novels in "The Gateway Trilogy" by E.E. Holmes.

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Autumn in the City of Angels

The Autumn Series Book 1
Kirby Howell

2016 Finalist
362 Pages
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Young Adult - Paranormal

2016 Finalist
2014 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALIST! 2014 KINDLE BOOK REVIEW AWARD SEMI-FINALIST! 2014 BEACH BOOK FESTIVAL HONORABLE MENTION! What would you do if you lived through the apocalypse? The real fight to survive comes after everyone else is gone. A plague of epic proportion sweeps the globe, leaving less than one percent of the world’s population immune. Among the living is Autumn Winters, the teenage daughter of a famous actress. When Autumn’s parents don’t come home and the city is overtaken by a dangerous faction, she goes into hiding with a small group of underground survivors. They’re led by a mysterious young man who harbors an unearthly secret, and with whom Autumn feels a deep connection. Autumn in the City of Angels is the first novel in a series, followed by Autumn in the Dark Meadows and Autumn in the City of Lights.