2026 Family Saga Award

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Larissa yearns to reframe grief; expend energy in new directions. Old postcards lead her to a picturesque beach house. Searching for her reluctantly surrendered son, connections from the past offer hope for new beginnings. Will she finally live life to the fullest, regardless of what she might find?

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As Ragul's men close in, the star-crossed lovers, Yalka and Peglar, face their biggest challenge. In this exciting tale, treachery and undying love collide, loyalties are tested, and sacrifices made. Will Yalka and Peglar find a way to reunite? The answer lies under the hanging moon.

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Peglar is an outlaw and Ragul's men are searching for him. Yalka blames Peglar for the fire which killed her brother. Fate pushes them together, but before they can reunite they must face separate challenges which could destroy them both.

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Raised in complete isolation in a remote mountain village, four siblings are forced to flee the only home they have ever known when terrifying creatures descend upon them — thrusting them into a world of danger, lies and powers they never imagined existed.

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Bridges Between Our Hearts, the third book in the "Love That Does Not Die" trilogy, continues Larissa's winding journey through the anguish of grief, as she resolves to live life to the fullest. She sees clearly that love does not die. Quite the opposite.

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The Poisoned Garden is the gripping first book in the Leopard’s Bane series, an epic fantasy family saga of love, ambition, and the dangerous price of power.

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In 1940s America, as World War II and racial discrimination reshape the nation, two white families and one Black family fight to hold on to love, courage, and redemption; discovering that some lives return in fragments, and some hearts break trying to gather what remains.

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When crisis demands the sacrifice of home, family and even the truth, is there time enough to find love and rebuild home?

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A storm is coming. Timelines collide. Could a sacrifice finally break the curse? In the final installment of the Goodpasture Chronicles, R.J. Halbert's Architect explores legacy, consequence, and the courage required to confront the designs that shape us.

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Inspired by the author's great grandfather, Enrico G is a powerful and often amusing story chronicling an immigrant's journey from Italy's Abruzzo region and the family's centuries-old olive groves to New York, stretching from 1870s to the years following World War II. Shaped by extraordinary women...