Lucille Guarino
About Lucille
An Amazon bestselling and multi award-winning author, Lucille’s novels have garnered reviews such as “compelling,” “captivating,” and “effortlessly transporting.” Among her accolades, Elizabeth’s Mountain was the winner of the 2024 Book Viral Millennium Award and the 2025 Independent Press Award. An avid reader of most genres, Lucille admits to loving emotion-heavy stories with strong female characters that are as realistic as they are inspiring.
Real women. Real lives.
Coming off the success of Elizabeth’s Mountain, her newest novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen launched in February 2025 and was a Grand Prize winner in A Woman’s Write’s 2023 novel competition, and won first place in the Firebird Books Awards Q1 2025 for relationships & friendships and second place for a contemporary novel. Also, the Silver Award for women's fiction from Readers' Favorite. Lunch Tales: Suellen is personal for her as she went through a similar medical crisis at the same age and knows firsthand all the feelings and emotions Suellen had to go through. This book is for all the extraordinary and resilient women out there who have faced similar fears.
Lunch Tales: Teagan will launch January 2026, a slow-burn second-chance romance with a little mystery and a lot of heart. It begins with the rhythm of a young mother's life and, in a single devastating moment, pivots into grief, resilience, and the fragile act of starting again.
In May 2026, Smoky Blue Sunrise, a return to Elizabeth's Mountain gets released. Haunted by guilt after her sister's tragic death, a young woman seeks a fresh start as a caregiver in North Carolina, on Elizabeth's mountain, and gradually finds the healing she seeks—but unexpected love and a life-threatening storm will test her strength all over again.
Lucille is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association ("WFWA"), and Romance Writers of America ("RWA"), having served as a judge in both WFWA's Rising Star Awards and RWA's historical and contemporary romance category, respectfully.
Lucille lives in South Carolina with her husband, close to her two daughters and grandchildren. She delights in embarrassing her kids…and now her grandkids. She loves road trips and touring the countryside. If she isn’t sightseeing or with her imagination, she usually enjoys spending it with her family at the many delightful locales in South Carolina.

Awards & Accolades
Lunch Tales: Teagan | Literary Titan Gold Book Award recipient
Lunch Tales: Teagan | 2025 American Writing Award Finalist for Fiction-Romance
Lunch Tales: Teagan | Readers' Favorite 5-Star Award
Lunch Tales: Suellen | Third Place - 2025 BookFest Award for Fiction-Women General
Lunch Tales: Suellen | Silver Medal - 2025 Readers' Favorite for Women's Fiction
Elizabeth's Mountain | Winner – 2025 Independent Press Award for Women's Fiction
Elizabeth's Mountain | Finalist – 2025 Maxy Awards
Lunch Tales: Suellen | First Place – Relationships and Friendship in Firebird’s Book Awards (Q1 2025)
Lunch Tales: Suellen | Second Place – Contemporary Novel in Firebird’s Book Awards (Q1 2025)
Elizabeth's Mountain | 2025 Independent Press Award Winner
Elizabeth's Mountain | Winner of the 2024 Millennium Book Awards
Elizabeth's Mountain | #1 Amazon Bestseller in American Historical Romance
Elizabeth's Mountain | Gold Medal - 2024 Readers' Favorite in Fiction-Drama
Elizabeth's Mountain | Finalist for the 2024 Hawthorne Prize
Elizabeth's Mountain | Literary Titan Gold Book Award
Elizabeth's Mountain | Readers' Favorite 5 Star Award
Elizabeth's Mountain | 2024 BookFest Second Place Award for Romance - Historical - 20th Century
Elizabeth's Mountain | 2024 Kindle Book Awards Finalist for Romance
Lunch Tales: Suellen | Grand Prize Winner in A Woman's Write 2023 Novel Competition
Kirkus Magazine: Author Spotlight Interview - June 2024 Issue
Best Ever You Interview - Fall 2024 Issue























