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Elysia Whisler’s novel-length fiction has received starred reviews from Booklist and an Amazon Editor's Pick for Best of the Month. She is the 2025 winner of The Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, a 2026 Writer's Digest Winner in the Short Short Story Competition, and a dual 2025 finalist in Best Mystery for the 2025 Claymore award. Her short fiction appears in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Black Cat Weekly. Raised in the military life, she's been all over the map but lives and writes in Virginia.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 1,273 ratings · 239 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rescue You (Dogwood County #1) 4.14 avg rating — 760 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forever Home (Dogwood County, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Family (Dogwood County, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Cat Weekly #220 by Pam Barnsley, Alan Orloff (Goodreads Author), Viviana De Cecco it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Forever Home is an Amazon Best Book of the Month for December 2021 in the Romance category!

So much is happening this month!

Forever Home is officially out and it's already an Amazon Best Book of the Month for December 2021 in the Romance category! I'm very honored to receive this distinction!

In addition, an essay I wrote about strong women in fiction was published by CrimeReads. Check out Strong Women in Fiction: The Problem With Magic Bracelets.

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