Book Award 2022

As two women celebrate New Year’s Eve across town, a mutual acquaintance lies dead in her apartment. Can a missing tortoise lead the way to the truth? A gripping tale of friendship, murder and betrayal. One tortoise, two strangers, three lives changed forever.

After a break-in occurs at the friend’s house she’s staying in, a young computer programmer down on her luck finds herself implicated in a larger crime she took no part in. Connecting with a detective, she works with him to solve the crime all the while falling in love.

When a woman’s near-death experience results in her meeting Jesus, it contradicts her beliefs about God, the afterlife, and life on Earth. The encounter changes her forever and brings with it an unexpected surprise.

When a woman’s near-death experience results in her meeting Jesus, it contradicts her beliefs about God, the afterlife, and life on Earth. The encounter changes her forever and brings with it an unexpected surprise.

When a woman’s near-death experience results in her meeting Jesus, it contradicts her beliefs about God, the afterlife, and life on Earth. The encounter changes her forever and brings with it an unexpected surprise.

When a woman’s near-death experience results in her meeting Jesus, it contradicts her beliefs about God, the afterlife, and life on Earth. The encounter changes her forever and brings with it an unexpected surprise.

Branded the Devil by my father, it was up to me and my unlikely partners to stop him stealing human souls and selling them into slavery. We were committed to ending this travesty.
And then the unthinkable happened.
We lost one of ours.
How on earth are we supposed to save mankind?

A 55-year old housewife, is dumped by her husband for a woman far younger, and attempts to renew herself by returning to the workforce, and by finding men interested in relations - without the relationship. Unfortunately, her first attempt at “just sex” lands her in the arms of a coworker with a

A rogue ex-priest joins forces with the Devil to bring down a terrifying conspiracy and free humanity from abject slavery after death.

Fun wording, rhythm and rhyme generate strong imagery in this cumulative story about a boat, a girl and the sea. When winds strengthen and the sea starts to rollick and frolic, what are a Big Blue Boat and her Captain brave to do?

Fun wording, rhythm and rhyme generate strong imagery in this cumulative story about a boat, a girl and the sea. When winds strengthen and the sea starts to rollick and frolic, what are a Big Blue Boat and her Captain brave to do?

After the death of his war hero father, Charlie Stoker lives by two principles: honour and duty. In 1930s London, consumed by an impossible love outside his sterile marriage, he battles Mosley’s fascists, a hero to others but tortured within, seeking self-respect as the dark clouds of war gather.

Can Joe and Wendy's love free them and help them overcome the heartache they've inherited so they can start a new life together?
Faith, hope and love prove stronger than the odds in this drama.

There are things beyond nature.
Clement Garner, 15, home from school for Christmas 1947, becomes embroiled in a semi-scientific hunt for the ghost of a dead safecracker. Set in remote Oxfordshire and smogbound London he and his New Zealand honorary cousin Berenice soon find themselves in an adult

Adventure. Suspense. Romance. And they're billionaires. What's not to like? Follow Chase, Nash, Finn, Beau, Gabe and Kade as they carry out their secret missions.

After Kyara becomes a banshee and is forced to abandon the Realm of Gold, home of shifters, she must fight the evil spirits before they swallow the world.

When 10 year-old Jill meets an elderly man in a wheelchair who must get to the top floor of her apartment complex, she has no idea that their journey up ten stories will evolve into an adventure of a lifetime.