The Christy Awards®
Christy Award® Finalists
Book of the Year
The Edge of Belonging by Amanda Cox - WINNER
Contemporary Romance
Stay with Me by Becky Wade - WINNER
Just Like Home by Courtney Walsh
Some Bright Someday by Melissa Tagg
First Novel
The Edge of Belonging by Amanda Cox - WINNER
A Noble Calling by Rhona Weaver
Rain by Dana McNeely
Roots of Wood and Stone by Amanda Wen
General Fiction
The Way It Should Be by Christina Suzann Nelson - WINNER
Set the Stars Alight by Amanda Dykes
The Water Keeper by Charles Martin
Historical
The White Rose Resists: A Novel of the German Students Who Defied Hitler by Amanda Barratt - WINNER
Like Flames in the Night by Connilyn Cossette
Under the Tulip Tree by Michelle Shocklee
Historical Romance
A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White - WINNER
The Prince of Spies by Elizabeth Camden
When Twilight Breaks by Sarah Sundin
Mystsery/Suspense/Thriller
Relative Silence by Carrie Stuart Parks - WINNER
Port of Origin by Lisa Harris and Lynne Gentry
Unknown Threat by Lynn H. Blackburn
Short Form
Joy to the World: Far as the Curse is Found by Amanda Barratt - WINNER
A Match Made at Christmas by Courtney Walsh
Joy to the World: Wonders of His Love by Erica Vetsch
Speculative
Forsaken Island by Sharon Hinck - WINNER
Extinction Island by Janice Boekhoff
The Story Hunter by Lindsay A. Franklin
Young Adult
Mortal Sight by Sandra Fernandez Rhoads - WINNER
Dust by Kara Swanson
Rebel Daughter by Lori Banov Kaufmann