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Ring by Spring won the Acorn Publishing Debut Author Prize, a nationwide manuscript search contest.
It was announced at the 2026 San Diego Writers Festival, and will be released March 12, 2027.
Acorn Publishing - Debut Author Prize Winner
Ring by Spring
At Aletheia University, an elite Christian college on the shores of San Diego, most girls arrive wearing purity rings and leave wearing diamonds.
Not Abigail Lawrence.
The boys call her a unicorn: gorgeous, wild, and impossible to catch. She's not chasing a husband because she is focused on a future career on the stage.
When Abigail’s theatrical ambitions cost her family’s financial support, she talks her way into a free room, living with three guys from the worship band.
Her new roommate, Wyatt, voted against her moving in because he thinks her comedy borders on blasphemy. His name rhymes with quiet, and he doesn’t like drama on-stage or off.
Their attraction becomes a comedy of errors when she begins performing a feminist interpretation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew — baiting Jon, the alpha male of the theatre department, who would love to see her expelled.
This opposites-attract, dual-POV romantic comedy releases March 12, 2027.
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The MRS Degree
Aletheia University educates America's most influential pastors. It's also where future church leaders find their wives.
Jordan Santos is new to faith, new to Aletheia, and has absolutely no idea how to reconcile her dream of becoming a pastor with her crush on the school's basketball star. But when campus worship king Danny Lamont needs a tutor, Jordan agrees to a deal that could teach her how to fit in.
The arrangement is simple: Jordan helps Danny interpret Genesis. Danny helps Jordan look like an ideal Christian girlfriend.
A fake-dating romantic comedy about Christian culture, purity, desire, and the radical act of asking who gets to lead—and who gets to decide.