Former Creston veterinarian and successful self-publisher Dave Perrin teamed with Debbie Palmer, an escapee from the Mormon Fundamentalist community of Bountiful, for her life story, Keep Sweet: Children of Polygamy. Herself the oldest of 47 children, Palmer was forced to become the sixth wife of the community's leader when she was 15. Assigned to two other older men after that, she fled in 1988 and has since been profiled on CBC's Fifth Estate. Her book is dedicated to her own eight children "who lived through unspeakable horrors before I brought them out."

“Among many excellent books in this years' submissions, the judges chose “Keep Sweet” because of its powerful subject matter,” says Reva Dexter, Vice-chair of Vancity's Board of Directors. “Polygamy has been somewhat of a taboo subject due a misguided concept that deeply held religious beliefs somehow supercede societal obligations. The judges ranked this disturbing memoir not only because of its literary merits, but also because we felt more citizens need to be aware of this phenomenon. This award will ensure that  the plight of children of polygamy will surface from the darkness of betrayal into the light of knowledge and truth.”