For those of you who love yesteryear and romance of the old fashioned kind, our Christys Celebration Giveaway Prize Package #3 is for you!

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Looking forward to joining you all, along with Tyson Wynn and a “soon to be advised” guest commentator, to chat it up at the Live Blog on Monday 23rd June, 2014!

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Prize Package #3 Finalists

Sweet Mercy by Ann Tatlock

Bethany House

When Eve Marryat’s father is laid off from the Ford Motor Company, she is happy to be moving from St. Paul, Minnesota, a notorious haven for gangsters, to a quiet, respectable town in Ohio. She has nothing but fond memories of the Marryat Island Ballroom and Lodge, where her family has come to live and work—unaware that her uncle’s business is anything but what it seems.

Eve is faced with a dilemma when the reality of her situation becomes clear: Does she dare risk everything by exposing the man whose generosity is keeping her family from ruin?

All for a Story by Allison Pittman

Tyndale House

Monica Bisbaine loves being a modern girl in the Roaring Twenties. Her job writing a gossip column allows her access to all the local speakeasys in Washington, D.C., where she can dance the night away—and find fodder for her next article. But when the owner of the Capitol Chatternewspaper passes away, Monica wonders what will happen to her job, and the lifestyle she loves.

Max Moore may hold the title of editor-in-chief for evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson’s paper, The Bridal Call, but Aimee calls all the shots. So when Max learns that his great-uncle has passed away, leaving him all his earthly possessions, Max resigns and heads to D.C. Determined to take over the Capitol Chatter, infuse it with his values, and turn it into a respectable paper, Max is soon bumping up against the equally determined Monica Bisbane.

Under Max’s direction, Monica embarks on her most challenging assignment yet: infiltrating and reporting on the Anti-Flirt Society. Though reluctant at first, as Monica meets and mingles with the young women of the club, she begins to question the innocence of her flirtatious lifestyle. And when romance begins to blossom between Max and Monica, she must choose where her loyalties lie: with the young women of the society or the alluring pull of the speakeasy and its inhabitants.

Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton

Waterbrook Multnomah

Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling obliged to nurse his injuries, she quickly finds – as does the Scotsman –  much has changed during her twelve-year absence—her childhood home is in disrepair, her missing parents are rumored to be Tories, and the young Richard Waring she once admired is now grown into a man twisted by the horrors of war and claiming ownership of the Obenchain land.
 
When her Mohawk brother arrives and questions her place in the white world, the cultural divide blurs Willa’s vision. Can she follow Tames-His-Horse back to the People now that she is no longer Burning Sky? And what about Neil MacGregor, the kind and loyal botanist who does not fit into in her plan for a solitary life, yet is now helping her revive her farm? In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, strong feelings against “savages” abound in the nearby village of Shiloh, leaving Willa’s safety unsure.
 
Willa is a woman caught between two worlds. As tensions rise, challenging her shielded heart, the woman called Burning Sky must find a new courage–the courage to again risk embracing the blessings the Almighty wants to bestow. Is she brave enough to love again?

 Under a Blackberry Moon: A Novel by Serena B. Miller

Revell

Just a few days after she gave birth alone in the northwoods, a recently widowed young Chippewa woman stumbled into a nearby lumber camp in search of refuge from the winter snows. Come summer, it is clear that Moon Song cannot stay among the rough-and-tumble world of white lumbermen, and so the camp owner sends Skypilot, his most trusted friend, to accompany her on the long and treacherous journey back to her people. 

But when tragedy strikes off the shore of Lake Superior, Moon Song and Skypilot must depend on each other for survival. With every step they take into the forbidding woods, they are drawn closer together, until it seems the unanswerable questions must be asked. Can she leave her culture to enter his? Can he leave his world to enter hers? Or will they simply walk away from a love that seems too complicated to last?

Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer

Bethany House

On his way to interview for his first preaching post, Crockett Archer can scarcely believe it when he’s forced off the train by a band of middle-aged outlaws and delivered to the ringleader’s daughter as a birthday present. Joanna Robbins can’t believe it either. For months, she’s prayed for a preacher—a man to bring life back into her community’s church and help her fulfill the promise she made to her dying mother.

Despite the circumstances, is there any chance she can convince this stolen preacher he ended up right where he belongs?

Harvest of Gold: (Book 2) by Tessa Afshar

River North

The scribe, Sarah, married Darius and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is another point she did not count on in her marriage – Sarah has grown to love her husband. She has wealth, property, honor, and power, but her husband’s love still seems unattainable.

Although his mother was an Israelite, Darius remains skeptical that his Jewish wife is the right choice for him, particularly when she conspires with her cousin Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Ordered to assist in the effort, the couple begins a journey to the homeland of his mother’s people. Will the road filled with danger, conflict, and surprising memories help Darius to see the hand of God at work in his life – and even in his marriage?

The Christy Awards

A recap on this premier award…

The Christy Awards—named in honor of the novelist Catherine Marshall and her best-selling novel Christy–were inaugurated in 2000 to recognize novelists and novels of excellence in several genres of Christian fiction. Each year, publishers enter novels in several categories, and a panel of judges per category read and evaluate the novel against the Christy criteria of excellence. The top three novels in each category are named finalists, and the novelist whose novel has the highest score is awarded a Christy at an annual awards dinner.

This year marks the 15th Annual Christy Awards Ceremony, to be emceed by beloved author Davis Bunn, with industry expert Marcia Z. Nelson of Publishers Weekly as the keynote speaker.

Thanks to the Christy Awards and Wynn~Wynn Media for the 2014 Christys Celebration Giveaway