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April 24, 2025 by
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Sandra Gharabaghli
What are you willing to risk for love? Emma risks it all. Theirs was a love born in passion and forged in sacrifice. The Duke and Duchess are both spies but neither knows the other’s occupation. Emma creates an elaborate ruse to free her husband from a French dungeon.

You Are So Much More: Truths Shared by SpiritHonorable mention
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Laura Muchmore Chronicles the journey through the life of an ordinary woman who, in seeking to better understand herself, her relationships and her path, was provided a glimpse into realms beyond conventional understanding while in past life regression sessions. The messages received were not just for her, they were meant for all of humanity.
Endless Fall of NightWinner
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
J. M. Erickson Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the year is 2126, in an age of imperialism, classism, and capitalistic expansion where racism is commonplace, slavery exists, and a minority of people are in absolute power on Planet Earth and, if unchecked, will spread to the Martian colonies
BERunner Up
2025 London Book Festival
Will Espero BE is a collection of prose and poetry written over several decades. They embrace my experiences and journeys in a life filled with hope, dreams, love, heartache, achievement, success, and regret. BE is a poem in the book with a social message, as our world is transformed in historic ways.
The Undiscovered ShowmanWinner
2025 London Book Festival
Wayne b Olivieri A trip up the rock and roll ladder filled with advice, success, disappointment, betrayal, sex, drugs and encounters with top industry executives and celebrities, including a revealing 17 -year close friendship with one of the worlds biggest rock superstars.
Thunderstroke: A Poetry Memoir Inspired by a True StoryWinner
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Terence Ang A Poetic Triumph: Thunderstroke powerfully captures the emotional aftermath of a stroke through vivid, heartfelt poetry. Poetry is a work of art and this book is artfully written in a way that is brilliant
Blackbird BluesHonorable mention
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Jean K. Carney Set against the background of illegal abortion and child abandonment in the 1963 Chicago world of civil rights and interracial jazz, Mary Kaye O’Donnell, an eighteen-year-old Irish-American aspiring jazz singer, struggles with an unwanted pregnancy in light of her faith, her music, and her mentor Sister Michaeline’s 1940s diary.
World of SheRunner Up
2025 London Book Festival
G.W. Darcie The survivors of the apocalypse adapted to a mysterious ‘inversion’ in offspring. Females (She) now grow larger than males. In this female-dominated world, one man’s quest for forbidden knowledge leads to a dangerous attraction and a revelation that could rock their society. But a man is easy to silence.
South Node Shaman; India Ashtanga to Thailand SilenceHonorable mention
2025 London Book Festival
Shaman Melodie McBride “This Universe, this planet that we’re connected is an ideal place and environment for the human being to relieve suffering and change their energy. Change is inevitable.” Shaman Melodie McBride