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Year: 2018

winner y separately published work icon Nineteen Letters Jodi Perry , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2017 11635888 2017 single work novel romance

'A man tries to win back the love of his life after an accident has her in a coma in this emotional drama from the ebook phenomenon J. L. Perry writing as Jodi Perry.

'The 19th of January, 1996 ... I'll never forget it. It was the day we met. I was seven and she was six. It was the day she moved in next door, and the same day I developed my first crush on a girl.

'Then tragedy struck. Nineteen days after our wedding day, she was in an accident that would change our lives forever. When she woke from her coma, she had no memory of me, of us, of the love we shared.

'That's when I started writing her letters.The stories of our life. Of when we met. About the happier times, and everything we'd experienced together.

'What we had was far too beautiful to be forgotten. ' (Publication summary)

Year: 2017

winner y separately published work icon Escaping Mr Right Avril Tremayne , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2015 10042823 2015 single work novel romance

'Sometimes Mr Right is Mr Wrong, and Mr Wrong is definitely Mr Right . . .

'Television reporter Chloe Masters is a woman of cool control . . . except when Casanova rugby league player Nick Savage is around. Then cool control goes out the window. Her boyfriend, Marcus, is everything she ever wanted - but it's getting harder to deny her body's reaction to Nick . . .

'Nick Savage has been head-over-heels since he first laid eyes on Chloe - just a moment too late to stop her connecting with his team mate, Marcus. But when the goalposts shift and he and Chloe are thrown together on a week away, Nick dares her to get physical in whatever way she wants - with a kiss, a punch or anything in between. And if Chloe claims to feel nothing, he'll leave her alone for good.

'How can Chloe say no to a week of mindless passion with the man she hasn't been able to get out of her head?

'Trouble is, a lot can go wrong (or right) in a week . . .'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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