Lucille Guarino an Amazon Bestselling and Multi Award-Winning Author

Lexington, SC 11/03/2026 - Lucille Guarino 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 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 launched in January 2026, a grief-to-grace 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. Love doesn't replace loss, it grows beside it.

In May 2026, Smoky Blue Sunrise, a return to Elizabeth's Mountain, got  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.

"A well-observed meditation on grief, love, family, and home."—Kirkus Reviews

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. She delights in taking road trips, touring the countryside and embarrassing her grandkids. 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.

She has an upcoming author book signing at Irmo Branch Library. It will be Saturday, November 21, 2026 from 1pm - 4pm.