Christy Fiction Award Winners

Lifetime achievement: Lee Hough

Book of the Year: Into the Free by Julie Cantrell

Contemporary Romance/

The Breath of Dawn

by Kristen Heitzmann (Bethany House Publishers, adivision of Baker Publishing Group)

Contemporary Series, Sequels, and Novellas/

You Don't Know Me

by Susan May Warren (Tyndale House Publishers)

Contemporary Standalone/

Not in the Heart

by Chris Fabry (Tyndale House Publishers)

First Novel/

Into the Free

by Julie Cantrell (David C Cook)

Historical/

Flame of Resistance

by Tracy Groot (Tyndale House Publishers)

Historical Romance/

Against the Tide

by Elizabeth Camden (Bethany House Publishers, adivision of Baker Publishing Group)

Suspense/

Rare Earth

by Davis Bunn (Bethany House Publishers, a division ofBaker Publishing Group)

Visionary/

Soul's Gate

by James L. Rubart (Thomas Nelson, a division ofHarperCollins Christian Publishing)

Young Adult/

Child of the Mountains

by Marilyn Sue Shank (Delacorte Press, a division ofRandom House)