The most popular
form of art among evangelicals may be
the story…stories really do locate us in the human condition, and stories bind our families to each other and to the earth.

—Calvin Miller

2005 Winners & Finalists

 

First Novel

The Mending String

by Cliff Coon (Moody Publishers)

The Dead Don't Dance

by Charles Martin (WestBow Press)

There is a Wideness

by Mark McAllister (RiverOak)

General

Bad Ground

by W. Dale Cramer (Bethany House Publishers)

No Dark Valley

by Jamie Langston Turner (Bethany House Publishers)

Tiger Lillie

by Lisa Samson (WaterBrook Press)

Historical

King’s Ransom

by Jan Beazely/Thom Lemmons (WaterBrook Press)

Retribution

by Randall Ingermanson (Zondervan)

Third Watch

by Bodie & Brock Thoene (Tyndale)

Romance

Secrets

by Kristen Heitzmann (Bethany House Publishers)

Wild Heather

by Catherine Palmer (Tyndale)

Winter Winds

by Gayle Roper (Multnomah)

Suspense

Tiger in the Shadows

by Debbie Wilson (Kregel)

The Assignment

by Mark Andrew Olsen (Bethany House Publishers)

River’s Edge

by Terri Blackstock (Zondervan)

Visionary

The Shadow Within

by Karen Hancock (Bethany House Publishers)

Beyond the Summerland

by L.B. Graham (P&R Publishing)

Dragonspell

by Donita K. Paul (WaterBrook Press)