Kim Cano
Kim Cano is the author of seven women's fiction novels: A Widow Redefined, On the Inside, Eighty and Out, His Secret Life, When the Time Is Right, The Healing Train, and My Twin in Budapest.
She writes emotionally charged book club reads about second chances, family life, and friendship.
Kim's novelette, The Rescue, is available for free on her website.
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House on Fire, her first novel, won the 2023 Page Turner Award for both fiction and debut. It was long-listed for the 2022 Petrichor Prize and received an honorable mention from Writer’s Digest. Her essay Thalassophobia (a true account of a very out-of-the-ordinary honeymoon) won the 2021 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Prize from Emrys Journal.
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Hope Gibbs
Hope Gibbs grew up in rural Scottsville, Kentucky. As the daughter of an English teacher, she was raised to value the importance of good storytelling from an early age. Today, she’s an avid reader of women’s fiction. Drawn to multi-generational family sagas, relationship issues, and the complexities of being a woman, she translates those themes into her own writing.
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Hope lives in Tennessee with her husband and her persnickety Shih Tzu, Harley. She is also the mother of five. In her downtime, she loves playing tennis, poring over old church cookbooks, singing karaoke, curling up on her favorite chair with a book, and playing board games.
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ANNA E. COLLINS is a Seattle-area author who writes stories about the lives and loves of women. Once upon a time she was a teacher with a master’s degree in educational psychology. Nowadays, plotting fiction and raising humans are her main pursuits. Find her (and her canine sidekick) on Instagram, @aeccreates.
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D. Liebhart
D. Liebhart is a nurse and writer. She writes (and sometimes lives) stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, where they learn that life is rarely predictable and answers to the most complex questions are almost never black and white.
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House on Fire, her first novel, won the 2023 Page Turner Award for both fiction and debut. It was long-listed for the 2022 Petrichor Prize and received an honorable mention from Writer’s Digest. Her essay Thalassophobia (a true account of a very out-of-the-ordinary honeymoon) won the 2021 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Prize from Emrys Journal.
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Amy Fillion
Amy Fillion is the author of both adult and children's fiction. She is raising three energetic boys in New Hampshire with her husband, attempting not to become too annoyed with her three unruly rescue cats, and immensely enjoying cuddles from her rescue dog. She worked in the field of early intervention after graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in psychology. She then left that job to stay home with her growing children.
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Linzvonc
Linzvonc is a bestselling author with readers all over the globe. She loves nothing more than snuggling up with her fur babies and creating characters just for her readers. She studied an English Literature and Creative Writing degree level before becoming a writer as her full-time job. She believes there is no real way to write-and to write what you would like to read. If we all tried to do what others do, there wouldn't ever be room for change, and there must always be room for that.
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Jill Hannah Anderson
Jill writes about women determined to reclaim their lives. Stories of family, friendship, forgiveness, and fortitude. Jill lives on a lake in Minnesota where she and her husband love having their kids and grandkids come to visit. Jill's latest book, Closer to Home, debuted in March 2024, and her next book will be published in early 2026. She is also the author of A Life Unraveled, Crazy Little Town Called Love, and The To Hell and Back Club. Follow her on BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/jill-... and connect with Jill on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jillhannah.a... and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillh.ander...
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V. Theia
I write steamy, emotionally driven contemporary and MC romance, featuring tough-as-nails alpha men who only show their soft side for their person.
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My books are packed with dirty talk, detailed sex scenes, and swoony, slow-burn chemistry that explodes. I lean into dark-lite themes, sometimes forbidden tropes, but I always deliver that satisfying, well-earned HEA.
Currently, I’m riding with bikers and bad boys—but one day I’ll be bringing you the dirtiest, most seductive vampire in paranormal romance.
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L.J. Shen
L.J. Shen is a New York Times, USA Today, WSJ, Washington Post and #1 Amazon Kindle Store bestselling author of contemporary romance books.
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She writes angsty books, unredeemable anti-heroes who are in Bill Gates's tax bracket, and sassy heroines who bring them to their knees (for more reasons than one).
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Aurora Rose Reynolds
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Aurora Rose Reynolds is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose wildly popular series include Until, Until Him, Until Her, Underground Kings and Shooting Stars.
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Shari J. Ryan
Shari J. Ryan is a USA Today and International Bestselling Author of over 40 novels, with more than 700,000 copies sold and translations in 13 languages. She writes emotionally evocative WWII fiction inspired by true stories that have resonated with readers around the globe. Her work has earned Top 100, Top 10, and #1 chart rankings, as well as two Rone Awards.
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As the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Shari brings a deeply personal connection to her work. Her stories are rooted in truth and remembrance, written to ensure history is never forgotten.
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Victoria Paige
Victoria Paige writes smart, edgy, seductive romance.
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Her heroes are badass alpha males and her smart, strong-willed heroines can hold their own against a bossy hero. Her books are sexually explicit and may contain dark themes, morally ambiguous choices, and disturbing situations as she injects realism into her stories and gives them her own twist.
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Dina Santorelli
Dina Santorelli is an award-winning author of heart-pounding thrillers and dark, twist-filled suspense. Twice voted one of Long Island’s best authors, she’s known for crafting gripping stories that keep readers turning pages late into the night.
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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Middle Village, New York—a place bordered by cemeteries—Dina grew up surrounded by whispers of mystery, fueling a lifelong fascination with the darker side of storytelling. Now based on Long Island, she writes full-time, weaving tales of secrets, betrayal, and survival.
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#1 Amazon bestselling author Paige Dearth is a survivor of child abuse. Through grit and pure determination she set out to provide a look inside the pain and suffering caused by childhood trauma through her novels.
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Buck Turner
Buck is a beloved storyteller, best known for his diverse writing style and subject matter. Author of the bestselling romance novels The Long Road Back To You and I'll Wait, Buck explores both the pleasure and the pain that come with finding that once-in-a-lifetime love, and the lengths we'll go to keep it.
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As a graduate of Lincoln Memorial University, Buck holds a Fine Arts degree as well as an MBA. Having spent his childhood in East Tennessee, Buck focuses on what he knows best-the south, including its rich traditions, diverse characters, and religion. When he's not busy writing, Buck enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf, fishing, drawing, and painting. -
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A bestselling and award-winning author for fiction-drama, Lucille Guarino has enjoyed writing since her youth. Her novel, Elizabeth’s Mountain, has received praise and recognition from Kirkus Reviews, BookViral, The Book Commentary, BookFest and others, and was a 2024 Finalist for the Hawthorne Prize from the American Writing Awards and Kindle Book Award. Also, the recipient of the 2024 Millennium Book Award and the 2025 Independent Press Award. Her novels have garnered reviews such as “compelling,” “captivating,” “enchanting,” and “effortlessly transporting.” Her newest, evocative novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen, embraces powerful issues that snag the lives of contemporary women by addressing Suellen's world of work, love, and a life-changing
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Laila Ibrahim
My education and experience in multiracial, developmental psychology and attachment theory provide ample fodder for my novels. My passion for early childhood education, child birth and religious education are reflected in my writing.
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I was the founder and director of Woolsey Children's School where I had first hand experience loving children that were not my own. There are scenes in Yellow Crocus that were largely influenced interactions I had with children from Woolsey.
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Helga Zeiner
Helga Zeiner is a German-born Canadian author. She left her home town Augsburg at the age of eighteen to explore the world. For the following fourteen years, she lived and worked in Australia and Asia before she married and settled in Canada.
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All her stories have been inspired by her years of extensive travels. The reader can only guess which parts of her dramatic thrillers are based on real-life experiences or might be the product of her imagination.
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Caro Ayre
A childhood in Kenya has left me with lasting memories of hot sun filled days, vibrant coloured birds and flowers, armies of insects, roaming wildlife in vast expanses of open spaces and warm waves lapping on silvery sands.
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Holly Frances
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Sweta Patel
Sweta Patel has a master’s degree in English education from Florida State University. Re-engaging students who have experienced school failure brings her joy. She hopes Rory’s story will surprise and touch readers the same way it did her high schoolers. She lives in Rochester, Minnesota, with her husband and two children. Should’ve Been Dead is her first book.
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