Golden Heart Awards
Subcategory of Romance Writers of America
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  • Annual awards administered by the Romance Writers of America (RWA), an American professional trade association representing the romance-fiction genre and its industry. Finalists from the best in unpublished romance manuscripts in the preceeding year by unpublished authors, are announced mid (northern) spring. Award winners are announced in July. The Golden Heart Awards are in several categories.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner (Contemporary Romance) Gabrielle Luthy For the unpublished manuscript Shelter Me.

Year: 2007

winner (Best Unpublished Romantic Suspense) y separately published work icon As Darkness Falls Falling into Darkness Bronwyn Parry , Sydney : Hachette Livre Australia , 2008 Z1510549 2008 single work novel romance crime detective

'Haunted by her failures, Detective Isabelle O'Connell is recalled to duty by DCI Alec Goddard to investigate the abduction of yet another child from her home town. They have only days to find the girl alive, with few clues, a town full of suspects, and a vast wilderness to search. It soon becomes a game of cat and mouse, with Bella firmly in the killer's sights.

'For Bella, this case is already personal; for Alec, his best intentions to keep it purely professional soon dissolve. He couldn't be more involved if the missing child were his own, and his anguish over Bella's safety moves beyond the concern for a colleague.

'Their mutual attraction leaves them both vulnerable to their private nightmares - nightmares the killer ruthlessly exploits.' (Author's abstract)

Award won under the manuscript title 'Falling into Darkness'

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