
Every Secret Thing was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Her novel Mariana won the Catherine Cookson Literary Prize.


2011 – OKRWA National Readers Choice Award for Novel with Romantic Elements for The Rose Garden.2011 – Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Historical Fantasy/Paranormal for The Rose Garden.2010 – Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Historical Fiction for The Winter Sea.The Vanished Days (part 3 of a trilogy) 2021.Kearsley studied politics and international development at university, and has worked as a museum curator.

In 2014, she received Romance Writers of America's RITA Award for Best Paranormal Romance for The Firebird. Susanna Kearsley (born January 17, 1966) is a New York Times best-selling Canadian novelist of historical fiction and mystery, as well as thrillers under the pen name Emma Cole.
