2025 Maggie Award Winners & Finalists

2025 Winners and Finalists of the Georgia Romance Writers' Maggie Award Published:

NOTE: Finalists only listed. Winners TBD.

Contemporary Romance

Winner:

Sweet Ridge Hearts - Susan Bagby

The Bookbinder's Guide To Love - Katherine Garbera*

Holding Out For A Gyro - Mary Ann Marlowe

The Story Of Us - Emma Mugglestone

Fortune's Lone Star Twins - Teri Wilson*

Historical Romance

Winner:

• Finalists:

A Highlander To Protect Her - Jeanine Englert*

The Gentleman Spy - Georgina North

Stars Of Twilight - K. Lynn Smith

Beyond Time's Embrace - Tina Susedik

The Wallflower's Wassail Punch - Aubry Wynne

Inspirational Romance

Winner:

• Finalists:

Justice Delayed - Sarah Hamaker

Charming The Grumpy Cowboy - Ciara Knight*

Saving The Broken Cowboy - Ciara Knight*

Rediscovering Christmas - Mindy Obenhaus

Texas Forsaken - Sherry Shindelar

Women's Fiction With Central Romance

Winner:

• Finalists:

Dead Late (Things Unseen, Book 3) - Anise Eden

Friends With Secrets - Christine Gunderson

Beach Therapy - Madeleine James

Deadly. Set. Vegas - Vanessa M. Knight

All For Show - Terra Weiss

Paranormal Romance

Winner:

• Finalists:

Control My Night - Sarah L. Richhelm

Bloodguard - Cecy Robson

Savage Champion - Carla Swafford*

Romantic Suspense

Winner:

• Finalists:

Blaze Of Glory - Blye Donovan

Christmas Bodyguard - Katherine Garbera

Buried Deceits - Sherrie Lea Morgan*

Ultimate Justice - Tee O'Fallon

Protecting Kimber - LC Taylor

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