Mariah Stewart

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Mariah Stewart is an author of romantic fiction whose titles have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. Stewart's books have won, or been nominated for, various major awards, including three-time recipient of the New Jersey Romance Writers' (NJRW) Golden Leaf Awards for The President's Daughter (Best Single Title Romance 2002), [1] Voices Carry (Best Single Title Romance 2001), [1] and for her very first novel, Moments in Time (Best Contemporary Novel 1998). [2] NJRW also awarded Stewart a Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted her into their Hall of Fame. [3]

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Other awards include the Reviewers International Organization Award of Excellence for Priceless (Favorite Contemporary Romance 1999), [4] the Reviewers Choice Awards from Romantic Times for Moon Dance (Best Contemporary Romance 1999), [1] [5] and the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence for A Different Light (Best Single Title 1995). [2] [6]

Stewart is a New Jersey native. She and her husband now reside in Chester County, Philadelphia "in a century old Victorian country home" with their daughters and Golden Retrievers. [2] [7]

Bibliography

From Stewart's official website: [1]

Series

In reading order:

Dead series

  • Dead Wrong (June 1, 2004) ISBN   0-345-46392-7
  • Dead Certain (June 29, 2004) ISBN   0-345-46393-5
  • Dead Even (3 Aug 2004) ISBN   0-345-46394-3
  • Dead End (9 Aug 2005) ISBN   0-345-48382-0

Truth series

Last series

Continued FBI series

Mercy series

Anthologies

Other books

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Official website
  2. 1 2 3 Simon & Schuster: Mariah Stewart
  3. Source: Found in Stewart's biography on many big bookseller sites, including Barnes and Noble Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine , Random House and Amazon.
  4. Reviewers International Organization Award of Excellence 1998-2006 index Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards past awards and nominations index Archived 2010-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Ballantine-Ivy Authors, Mariah Stewart
  7. Fantastic Fiction