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BOOK COVER
OF
THE YEAR

2007 BOOK COVER OF THE YEAR

Artist: Kam Wai Yun

Publisher: Kunati Inc. Book Publishers

SUMMARY:
Cheryl Kaye Tardif's Whale Song is a "haunting" novel about a young girl's search for the truth after the assisted suicide of her mother. Spanning many years, Whale Song shows the depths of just how far a person is willing to go to help those they love. This is the novel that will change the way you view life...and death. An Amazon.ca bestseller, Whale Song has received rave reviews from Booklist, Writer's Digest, Edmonton Examiner, Fresh Fiction, Habitual Reader...and Luanne Rice, a NY Times bestselling author calls it "a compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart". 

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SECOND PLACE FINALIST!

Artist: Syneca

Publisher: Ellora's Cave

SUMMARY:
The Law of the love goddess Lufra states that no man may take his pleasure inside any part of a woman's body, unless she has climaxed first. Each time, every time. But when warrior-scout Anje is taken captive by Lufra's shaman, not even divine law can protect her from the sensual wiles of two determined men. In an erotic dance of danger and dominance, saving her lovers from an angry goddess will take everything Anje has to give.

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THIRD PLACE FINALIST!

Artist:
Angela Farley Graphic Designs

Publisher:
 LightLines Media

SUMMARY:
Mark David Gerson's THE MOONQUEST is a "true fantasy" set in a land where fear rules and storytelling spells death. Here, as black-clad armies terrorize the countryside, one young bard must come out of hiding to embark on The MoonQuest, the long-prophesied journey to end the tyranny...a journey guided only by stories...a journey that blurs the line between vision and reality. Only by trusting himself can he rekindle the spirit of the land. Only by trusting his imagination can he reignite the light of its darkened moon. A gripping and epic adventure rich with universal truth.

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Artist: Nathalie Moore

Publisher: Echelon Press

SUMMARY:
The psych ward’s Christmas tree was artificial…but the bomb concealed in its trunk was alive and ticking. Who planted the explosives that killed six patients and a student nurse at Rhineburg’s St. Anne’s Hospital? An ex-employee fired by the hospital’s hated administrator? A student terrorist from Bruck University? Or Caroline Rhodes, a nurse with a suspicious past who survived the bombing but refuses to discuss it? Tagged as a suspect by the FBI, Caroline enlists the aid of history professor Carl Atwater to cut through a maze of conflicting stories, red herrings, and downright lies surrounding the tragedy.

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Artist: Angela Anderson

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

SUMMARY:
When young widow Lily McCourt is attacked by a couple of neighboring ranch hands, Troy Hammond comes to her rescue, just as he has since the day her husband died. For Lily, it was love at first sight the moment the ranch foreman drifted onto the Triple M Ranch, and Troy feels the same, she’s sure of it. She's also certain Troy's loyalty to her dead husband has kept him from acting on his feelings, and if she wants to break the reluctant cowboy's stubborn sense of honor, she'll have to shed more than her petticoats to brand him as her own.

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Designer:
Nikki Leigh

Publisher:
Write Words, Inc.

SUMMARY:
(This is book two in the Misty Cove Chronicles. Book One, Widow's Walk, won May 2006 Book Cover of the Month.)

Lizbeth is a woman of uncommon strength and determination and that's one of the things her husband William, loves about her. Unexpected events cut Lizbeth's happiness short, her strength is tested in ways she never imagined. Her children are growing up in a time and place where death and loss are a common part of life.
While she struggles with her own fears, she must help her children find their way through an uncertain future. Lizbeth keeps an almost obsessive vigil from the lighthouse catwalk. This makes her the ideal choice for the new lightkeeper for the Stormy View lighthouse.

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Cover photograph: Dawn Allynn
Cover design: Scott Parkison

Publisher: BeWrite Books (UK)

SUMMARY:
When questions surrounding his partner’s death go unanswered, homicide detective Sam Harper suspects a cover up. Determined to find the killer, Harper plunges back into his work only to be called to a demolition site where workers discover entombed infant remains. The suspects in the baby’s murder link back to the death of his partner. The evidence mounds as quickly as the bodies in the morgue, and the truth leads Harper to the person he least suspects.

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UK readers, buy a paperback here.
 

Artist: Vincent Steel

Publisher: Midnight Showcase

SUMMARY:
In the far future and across the universe, 1800-style ships sail the invisible tides of space. Aboard one ship hides a murderer. Aboard another, an avenger. Caught between two powerful men is one special woman—a Radiant, one capable of controlling any man’s emotions.

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Artist: Tamra Westberry

Publisher: Wild Rose Press

SUMMARY:
Jenna West has no idea what she might have done to her new tenant Mike Hightower. He's surly and hateful every single time they meet, and he looks at her as though he despises her.
He does despise her. She's from the Middle East, and people like her killed his friend Ramirez when the army sent them to Iraq.
Will the power of love work its magic to soften Mike's bitter hatred, or will he ignore his growing attraction for his pretty landlady?

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Artist: Jax Crane

Publisher: Liquid Silver Press

SUMMARY:
Late for a meeting, attorney Logan Jeffries zooms from the garage and runs into Alexandra O'Malley - literally. Convinced she will sue, he plots to romance her out of legal action while he struggles against falling under her spell of indifference.

Alex never knew what hit her-not until she awakes in a hospital bewildered to find her fantasy duke standing at her bedside. The gallant nobleman who ravishes her nightly in her dreams has come to life. Fantasies aren’t real but the attentive attorney's persistence soon has her in his bed, his shower and anywhere else he wants her.

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Artist: Syneca

Publisher: Cerridwen Press

SUMMARY:
He appears to her every night, chasing her until she's trapped at gunpoint. A stalker who wants her dead. Terror jolts her awake with vivid scenes of her death. The problem is that Angelina Benton's prophetic dreams always come true. The day Jared Maxwell walks into The Variety Vine, the nightmare becomes reality. Circumstances force Angie to work and live with Jared. If she refuses, she loses her home and business. If she agrees she may lose her life. Can she overcome her fears and suspicions to fulfill her destiny or will trusting Jared be the ultimate mistake?

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Designer: David P. Bowman
Photograph by: Ca'ryn A. Bowman

Publisher: Write Words

SUMMARY:
Trisha Holden, a young budding archaeologist, decides to 'go it alone' and explore the depths off Ke'e Beach, Kauai. Caught in the throes of an undersea earthquake, she falls through a fissure and into an Ancient City, trapped for Centuries beneath the waters of the Pacific. For both Kan, the high priest, and Trisha it was love, almost at first sight. When she accidentally stumbles onto a secret ceremonial ritual, Myaculi, the High Priestess sees her chance to destroy Trisha. After all, Kan belongs to her. He was promised to her at birth and she means to have him.