Last month, the winners of the 2012 Christy Awards for Christian Fiction were announced.

In this fictionalized account of the biblical Queen Esther, a beautiful young Jewish woman is captured and forced to join the harem of the Persian king, Xerxes.When she discovers the king's plan to commit genocide against her people she knows she must act.

At the opening of My Heart Remembers, the Irish-immigrant parents of three young children are killed in a devastating