2024 Book Cover Shortlist

Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2024 Best Book Cover Shortlist, shown in random order!

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Deborah L. King for "MARY NOT BROKEN"
Genre: Women's Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Mary ran away from an arranged marriage, but life’s circumstances forced her to come back home to the world she desperately tried to escape. Can she ever find the freedom and happiness she seeks?
C.T. Clark for "The Phoenix Elite: Sacred Blood"
Genre: Sci-Fi
Clones are living among us. Seven college students make a shocking discovery—they are enhanced clones of some of history's most influential figures, trained from birth to face a looming global crisis. And that crisis has arrived.
James Butler for "Taking Boston"
Genre: Christian
When a car accident claims the lives of his best friends, a young single pastor takes in their only daughter, drastically altering both of their lives forever.
Sarah Branson for "Burn the Ship"
Genre: Sci-Fi
Kat Wallace, juggling three children, a faltering marriage, and her role in the Bosch Pirate Force, seizes an unexpected chance to eliminate human trafficking on New Earth, confronts resistance and betrayal from all sides while forging new alliances that could reshape her future and Bosch's destiny.
Sarah Branson for "A Pirates' Pact"
Genre: Childrens Middle Grade Books
On the pirate island of Bosch, nearly eleven-year-old twins Kik and Mac stumble upon a hidden treasure map, launching them into an adventure that tests their bond, uncovers family secrets, and reshapes their understanding of identity and loyalty.
Michele Grant for "The Power Dressers: A Women's Guide to Professional Style"
Genre: Non-Fiction
In The Power Dressers: A Women's Guide to Professional Style, Michele Grant blends 20+ years of executive business consulting with a passion for fashion, offering a transformative guide that empowers women to enhance their professional presence and achieve career success through strategic dressing.
Evie Alexander for "An Unholy Affair"
Genre: Romance
Gorgeous Jack Newton has fallen in love. But Eveline Shaw’s a vicar dreaming of marriage and kids, and he’s a male escort on his way out of town. Can Jack show Eveline heaven and keep his secret safe, or are they both headed straight for hell?
Chloe Brathwaite for "Good Practice: Confessions of a Physician Associate Student "
Genre: Memoir
With a blend of gentle humour, empathy and refreshing honesty, Chloe invites you to join her on a path less travelled, offering a unique perspective on the wonders and fragilities of the human body, whilst navigating the complexities of her own life as the truth behind her challengers are unveiled.
Lizann Lightfoot for "Open When: Letters of Encouragement for Military Spouses"
Genre: True Stories
Empathetic letters for the reader to "open when" they are going through specific challenges of military life so they can always read a kind word from a friend who gets it, with true accounts from the author--a military spouse--introducing each section.
Don Hammons for "PRICK"
Genre: Young Adult
People are dying under mysterious circumstances in the small town of New Haven. And the city’s best hope of uncovering the truth rests with a troubled teen and the girl who can't stand him.
Autistic Lawyer for "Smelling the Taste of Sound (A professional woman’s story of a late autism diagnosis)"
Genre: Memoir
Professional woman is diagnosed as neurodivergent and then starts a new career in a dysfunctional law firm encountering comical and tragic characters, while learning about her disabilities in an unconducive office. The account is eye-opening, shocking and will make the reader feel uncomfortable.
Deborah L. King for "GLORY UNBOUND"
Genre: Women's Fiction
IN THIS 2nd BOOK OF THE GLORY BISHOP SERIES, Glory finally breaks free of her mother's oppressive grasp. Against trusted advice, she chooses the protection of Malcolm, her controlling, much older, bad-boy-turned-minister fiancé. With this new reality, comes unexpected complications and temptations....
Sherry Maysonave for "Tatae's Promise - You will live... you will tell"
Genre: Historical Fiction
Tatae’s Promise is a never-before-told, true, historical drama in which a young Jewish woman fights to resist her Nazi captors, survive years in the Mlawa ghetto, escape Auschwitz with her younger sister, and fulfill her murdered father’s last promise to her: you will live and you will tell.
Mellany Ambrose for "Mr Hammond and the Poetic Apprentice"
Genre: Historical Fiction
When his apprentice, John Keats, abandons medicine for poetry, Thomas Hammond is devastated, but can the master apothecary learn something valuable about life from his poetic apprentice before it’s too late?
Ashlee Alicea for "Luka and Little Feather"
Genre: Childrens Picture Books
A beautiful story of imagination and culture. This book highlights Indigenous life while providing a contemporary story any child would love. The hidden messaging throughout the book encourages learning about Native American Causes. An amazing story of adventure and the power of place.
O.L Obonna for "When Love Lasts"
Genre: Romance
Theirs was a marriage made in heaven, a marriage meant to last forever, or so they thought. Will Folarin be able to trust Leilani? Will Leilani be able to forget the pain of their first marriage? Will they both believe in second chances
Robin Jeffrey for "Hungry is the Night"
Genre: Paranormal & Supernatural
In Seattle, the past doesn’t stay buried—it comes back to bite you.
Nick Nielsen for "Faith: A Mind-Bending Fantasy Thriller (The Faith Trilogy Book 1)"
Genre: Fantasy
The Faith Trilogy is The Matrix meets The Da Vinci Code, blending the world-shattering concepts of the Wachowskis’ films and the religious intrigue found in Dan Brown’s page-turners. They explore psychology, philosophy, and spirituality, all in the pages of three lightning-paced fantasy thrillers.
Nick Nielsen for "Wrath: The Mind-Bending Fantasy Thriller Series (The Faith Trilogy Book 2)"
Genre: Fantasy
The Faith Trilogy is The Matrix meets The Da Vinci Code, blending the world-shattering concepts of the Wachowskis’ films and the religious intrigue found in Dan Brown’s page-turners. They explore psychology, philosophy, and spirituality, all in the pages of three lightning-paced fantasy thrillers.
Helen Rowe for "Eliminating Poverty in Britain"
Genre: Non-Fiction
In this book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from across Britain to show us that ending poverty in the 21st century is possible. Using a combination of compassion, focus and a plan, Rowe describes how we can end poverty in five years, without raising taxes.