Mariah Stewart is an author of romantic fiction

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

 whose titles have appeared on the New York Times and
USA Today

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bestsellers lists. Stewart's books have won, or been nominated for, various major awards, including three-time recipient of the New Jersey Romance Writers' (NJRW) Golden Leaf Awards for The President's Daughter (Best Single Title Romance 2002), Voices Carry (Best Single Title Romance 2001), and for her very first novel, Moments in Time (Best Contemporary Novel 1998). NJRW also awarded Stewart a Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted her into their Hall of Fame.

Other awards include the Reviewers International Organization Award of Excellence for Priceless (Favorite Contemporary Romance 1999), the Reviewers Choice Awards from Romantic Times for Moon Dance (Best Contemporary Romance 1999), and the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence for A Different Light (Best Single Title 1995).

Stewart is a New Jersey

New Jersey

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 native. She and her husband now reside in Chester County, Philadelphia "in a century old Victorian

Victorian architecture

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 country home" with their daughters and Golden Retriever

Golden Retriever

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Dead series

• Dead Wrong (June 1, 2004) ISBN 0345463927
• Dead Certain (June 29, 2004) ISBN 0345463935
• Dead Even (3 Aug 2004) ISBN 0345463943
• Dead End (9 Aug 2005) ISBN 0345483820

Truth series

• Cold Truth (30 Aug 2005) ISBN 0345476654
• Hard Truth (27 Sept 2005) ISBN 0345476670
• Dark Truth (25 Oct 2005) ISBN 0345476697
• Final Truth (May 30, 2006) ISBN 0345483839

Last series

• Last Look (May 29, 2007) ISBN 0345492226
• Last Words (June 26, 2007) ISBN 0345492234
• Last Breath (July 31, 2007) ISBN 0345492242

Mercy series

• Mercy Street (March 2009) ISBN 0345492277
• Cry Mercy (May 2009) ISBN 0345506138
• Acts of Mercy (August 2009) ISBN 0345506146

Anthologies

• Wait Until Dark (2001), with Linda Anderson, Andrea Kane
  Andrea Kane
  Andrea Kane is an American author of romance novels. She has resided in the Martinsville section of Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, United States, with her husband Brad and daughter Wendi.-Single novels:* Dream Castle...
  
  , and Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  
• Under the Boardwalk (1999), with Geralyn Dawson
  Geralyn Dawson
  Geralyn Dawson is a USA Today bestselling author of romance novels. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University, and has written fifteen novels and contributed two novellas to anthologies, one of which was on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 1996 her novel The Wedding Raffle was named as one...
  
  , Linda Howard
  Linda Howard
  Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Before she became a writer, she was an avid reader and fond of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for...
  
  , Jillian Hunter
  Jillian Hunter
  Jillian Hunter is an American author of historical romance novels.-Awards:*1995 - Romantic Times Award Nominee for Glenlyon's Bride*1997 - Romantic Times Award Nominee for Fairy Tale...
  
  , and Miranda Jarrett
• Upon a Midnight Clear (1997) with Margaret Allison, Jude Deveraux
  Jude Deveraux
  Jude Deveraux is an American Romance novel author who is well-known for her historical romances. As of 2010, 36 of her novels had been on The New York Times Best Seller list according to Forbes, including among the dozens such titles as 2009's Lavender Morning and Days of Gold...
  
  , Stef Ann Holm, and linda Howard
  Linda Howard
  Linda S. Howington is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Before she became a writer, she was an avid reader and fond of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After 21 years of penning stories for her own enjoyment, she submitted a novel for...
  
  

Other books

• Until Dark (2003)
• The President's Daughter (2002)
• Voices Carry (2001)
• Brown-Eyed Girl (2000)
• Priceless (1999)
• Moon Dance (1999)
• Wonderful You (1998)
• Devlin's Light (1997)
• Carolina Mist (1996)
• A Different Light (1995)
• Moments in Time (1995)

External links

• "A Conversation With Mariah Stewart" by Claire E. White of Writer's Write