We are pleased to announce the finalists and winners in the 2012 New England Readers’ Choice Bean Pot Award
(In alphabetical order)
**NEC Member
SHORT CONTEMPORARY
1st Place **The Heart of a Hero – Barbara Wallace
2nd Place A Rancher’s Pride – Barbara White Daille
3rd Place The Daddy Catch – Leigh Duncan
HISTORICAL
1st Place **Promise Me Forever – Diane Amos
2nd Place In the Barrister’s Chambers – Tina Gabrielle
3rd Place More Than a Mistress – Ann Lethbridge
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
1st Place **Fatal Consequences – Marie Force
2nd Place Deadly Descent – Kaylea Cross
3rd Place Edge of Daybreak – Jannifer Hoffman
EROTIC
1st Place The Closer You Get – LA Witt
2nd Place Take Me Away – Tina Donahue
3rd Place Bastian, The Lords of Satyr – Elizabeth Amber
FUTURISTIC; FANTASY; PARANORMAL OR TIME TRAVEL
1st Place Memories of Murder – Lara Nance
2nd Place Dyad Love – Ann Hinnenkamp
3rd Place **Salad on the Side – Karenna Colcroft
INSPIRATIONAL
1st Place Nightwatch – Valerie Hansen
2nd Place Love on the Line – Deeanne Gist
3rd Place Hometown Dad – Merrillee Whren
MAINSTREAM W/ROMANTIC ELEMENTS
1st Place The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship – Lisa Verge-Higgins
2nd Place Blood Rights – Kristen Painter
3rd Place Promises to Keep – Char Chaffin
NOVELLA
1st Place Painted with Pleasure – Dena de Paulo
2nd Place -tie Drive-In – Kelli Scott
2nd Place -tie Stormy Wedding – Kelli Scott
3rd Place **I Love the Earl – Caroline Linden
YOUNG ADULT
1st Place Awake at Dawn – C.C. Hunter
2nd Place Love Story – Jennifer Echols
3rd Place **Tales Out of the Psych Office – Shirley Ann Howard