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  • 'Novels and novellas between 30,000 and 60,000 words where the love story is the main focus of the novel, and the end of the book is emotionally satisfying and optimistic. Novels may be set in any place or time. Love scenes are fully realised.'

    This award was inaugurated in 2009.

    Source: Romance Writers of Australia website, http://www.romanceaustralia.com
    Sighted: 18/08/2009

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

Indexed selectively. Also finalist: New Zealand writer Yvonne Lindsay.
winner y separately published work icon Never Surrender Rosie Miles , Fort Collins : Entangled Publishing , 2015 9929436 2015 single work novel romance

'A thrilling category romance from Entangled's Ignite imprint...

'He promised he'd have her back... But would she pay with her heart?

'Police officer Maggie Sinclair prides herself on her independence. She doesn't need anyone, especially her ex-lover. Working undercover to expose a prostitution ring, Maggie rescues two teenaged girls-but blows her cover in the process. Now she's in deep, and the only person who can help her is the last man she wants to call...

'Detective Quinn Keller remembers Maggie telling him Hell would freeze over before she needed him. He offered her everything, and she rejected him. Now he has the opportunity to show Maggie they're stronger as a team-even as their attraction becomes increasingly hotter. But this passion won't just bring them together or tear them apart...it could get them both killed.' (Publication summary)

Year: 2015

Indexed selectively. Also finalist: New Zealand writer Yvonne Lindsay.
winner y separately published work icon Damaso Claims His Heir Annie West , Richmond : Mills and Boon , 2014 8328691 2014 single work novel romance

'Damaso Pires should have known better than to get involved with Marisa—the scandalous princess of Bengaria! Yet soon he sees her true beauty and flawless virtue, which touches a place in him he thought ruthlessly destroyed by his childhood on the streets of Brazil.

'But their brief affair becomes permanent when Marisa reveals she's pregnant.

'Damaso knows the sting of illegitimacy and, having fought tooth and nail to claw his way up to the dizzying heights of international success and financial infamy, he won't let his child slip from his grasp. There's only one way to claim his heir, and that's marriage!'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2014

Indexed selectively. Also finalist: New Zealand writer Yvonne Lindsay.
winner y separately published work icon What the Bride Didn't Know Kelly Hunter , Richmond : Mills and Boon , 2013 6810216 2013 single work novel romance

'Shh…it's a secret!

'Special ops expert Trig Sinclair is a man's man, and that means he knows the cardinal rule of the bro code – no matter how dynamite Lena West is, as his best friend's younger sister, she's strictly off-limits!

'But when a secret mission to Istanbul sees Lena and Trig pretending to be married (and sharing a bed!), he finds himself in a whole new world of sweet torture…. But if Trig thinks playing the honor-bound hero is tough, it's got nothing on how Lena feels when she discovers what her "groom" is really hiding...' (Publisher's blurb)

Year: 2013

Indexed selectively. Also finalist: New Zealand writer Yvonne Lindsay.
winner y separately published work icon Marrying the Enemy Nicola Marsh , Richmond : Mills and Boon , 2012 6345032 2012 single work novel romance
— Appears in: Gift med fjenden [and] Kærlighedens frugt 2014; Sicilien i blodet [and] Under den hede sol [and] Gift med fjenden 2018;

— Appears in: Guldkantat hjärta [and] Kärlekens revansch 2014;

'Jewellery designer and heiress Ruby Seaborn will do anything to save her family's company from financial ruin. And she means anything. Including proposing a strictly business marriage to diamond-mine magnate Jax Maroney—the only man able to restore the Seaborn jewellery empire to its former glory! She needs his money; he needs her socialite credentials—it's a win-win solution. And if they indulge in certain…fringe benefits of their marriage along the way, that's fine. Because luckily Ruby's heart is as unbreakable as the precious gems she works with…isn't it?' (Publisher's blurb)

Year: 2012

winner y separately published work icon The Fearless Maverick Robyn Grady , Richmond : Mills and Boon , 2011 Z1880959 2011 single work novel romance

'Alex...Thrill-seeker. Player. Champion. Driven to succeed, Alex's only desire is to win. A champion race-car driver, he lives like he drives - fast and reckless! But after a huge crash, his career faces ruin.

'Physio Libby Henderson is there to help him get back to fitness, and all Alex wants to do is get physical! Libby's dealt with more challenging things in life, but it's taking all of her professionalism to keep this playboy at bay!'

Source: Robyn Grady's website, http://robyngrady.com/
Sighted: 20/08/2012

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