Maris Soule
Maris Soule wins Gold in Thriller/Suspense for Two Jade Bracelets at the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Awards.
The Florida Writers Association has honored author Maris Soule with a Gold award in the Thriller/Suspense category at the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Awards for her unpublished novel Two Jade Bracelets. The story follows Madison Taylor, who discovers two jade bracelets on a beach—unaware they’ll entangle her with a safecracker, her dead husband, and international freedom fighters.
This prestigious recognition celebrates Soule’s exceptional storytelling and marks a standout achievement among Florida’s literary community. For more on the awards, visit floridawriters.org.
Featured Books
Mysteries
Haunted
A haunted house brings them together. It doesn’t matter to Valerie Wiggins that most people believe Jason McLain killed his…
Eye of the Crow
It’s P.J. Benson’s wedding day. It’s also the day she walks in on a bank robbery. During the ceremony she…
As the Crow Flies
When an elderly woman hands P.J. Benson a briefcase and begs for her help, it’s just the beginning of a…
Eat Crow and Die
When Sheriff’s Detective Wade Kingsley’s boat explodes on Lake Michigan, he and his son survive while his ex-wife and her…
The Crows
For P.J. Benson and her four-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, a relaxing afternoon walk in the woods turns into a harrowing experience…
A Killer Past
AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER WITH A MASSIVE TWIST For forty-four years Mary Harrington has lived in Rivershore, Michigan, a rural community…
Echoes of Terror
A teenager is missing, and Officer Katherine Ward is assigned the case, never expecting it to parallel her own kidnapping…
Something to Crow About
Friend and former co-worker, Brenda Cox, said she was fine, but when P.J. hears that Brenda has died in a…
Romance
Destiny Unknown
Bernadette Sanders is a woman who needs to be in control, and for the next six weeks she’ll be running…
The Bachelor, the Beauty and the Blizzard
SNOWBOUND WITH A STRONG, SEXY…SOURPUSS? From the moment Randall Watson had practically kidnapped her to help him stop a wedding,…
Chase the Dream
He needed a lady to depend on, but pursuing her was risky business. Link Sheffield didn’t want a nurse, not…
Shelter from the Storm
A robbery in Detroit sends Jana Jenkins to the Bahamas in a desperate attempt to save her stepbrother’s life and…
Destiny Strikes Twice
He was the man she’d been looking for all her life …. Effie Sanders returned to the lake to pack…
Substitute Mom
“DADDY’S HOME…” was a phrase Kari Carmichael never thought she’d hear little Timmy say. She had agreed to care for…
Stop the Wedding!
The Groom Is a Snake Matt Stewart is intent on stopping his stubborn sister from making the biggest mistake of…
No Promises Made
Opposites in many ways, Eric Newman and Ashley Kehler are nonetheless attracted to each other, but Ashley does not want…
No Strings Attached
All Jonah Mesner ever wonted was peace and quiet–until Sherry Linden moved in next door. Now all he wanted was…
Con Man
Undercover to check out a prospective grant recipient, Kurt Jones meets expert rider Micki Bradford, a woman with secrets to…
Missy’s Proposition
Jared’s Lady
When his niece is lost, handsome widower Jared North joins police tracker Laurie Crawford in searching a storm-lashed forest for…
First Impressions
Tracy Dexter couldn’t deny her attraction to her new boss. Mark Prescott looked more like a jet-set playboy than a…
Storybook Hero
Sasha Peters wears Victorian-style dresses; designs, creates, and sells cloth dolls called “My Friends”; and tells children stories at the…
The Law of Nature
Best of Everything
A Winning Combination
He really shook her up. Alexis Martin had been footloose long enough. Home again in Alaska, she was determined to…
Sounds Like Love
When Sam Blake walks into The Quarter Note, the bar that Megan McGuire and her father own, they are in…
Lost and Found
The teenaged son of a movie star and movie producer has run away from Camp Vista, where he was supposed…
Heiress Seeking Perfect Husband
Shannon Powell thinks the interview is over when she mentions that her late husband never wrote her love letters. She…
No Room for love
She’d never felt so much a woman… — As a bank manager in a small midwestern town, Carla Parker was…
Lyon’s Pride
Cartoonist Greg Lyon made a healthy living at satire, but when doctors become his prime target, he’s told to take…
Published Works
- 25 Romances
- 6 Mysteries
- 2 Short Stories
Awards & Honors
- Royal Palm Literary Award – Winner (2x)
- RITA Award – Finalist (2x)
- WisRWA Write Touch: Readers’ Choice Award
- 1st Place, Short Contemporary
- 1st Place, Traditional Category
- Kiss of Death Contest
- 2nd Place
- 3rd Place