The 1999 All About Romance Reader Awards

Favorite Romance of the Year – The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone

    Honorable Mentions –

      Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
      The Proposition by Judith Ivory

Favorite Funny – Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Most-Hanky Read – Wicked by Jill Barnett

Most Luscious Love Story – The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone

Most Tortured Hero – Sebastian from Karen Ranney’s My Beloved

    Honorable Mentions –

      Jaques from Christine Feehan’s Dark Desire
      Jericho from Suzanne Brockmann’s Heartthrob
      Ramiel from Robin Schone’s My Lady’s Tutor

Feistiest Heroine – Emma from Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Lady Be Good

Favorite Hero – Roarke from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty in Death

Favorite Heroine – Eve from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty in Death

Favorite Couple – Eve and Rourke from J.D. Robb’s Loyalty in Death

Favorite Villain – Louis Ronsard from Linda Howard’s All the Queen’s Men

    Honorable Mentions –

      Lord Carr from Connie Brockway’s McClairen’s Isle: The Passionate One
      Edward from Robin Schone’s My Lady’s Tutor

Most Annoying Lead Character – Meriel from Mary Jo Putney’s The Wild Child

Favorite Cabin or Road Romance – Ransom by Julie Garwood

    Honorable Mentions –

      Body Guard by Suzanne Brockmann
      Secrets of the Night by Jo Beverley

Favorite New Author – Liz Carlyle

    Honorable Mentions –

      Diane Farr
      Christine Feehan
      Jacquie D’Alessandro

Favorite New Discovery – Julia Quinn

    Honorable Mentions –

      Stephanie Laurens
      Robin Schone

Author Most Glommed (collected during 1999) – Nora Roberts

    Honorable Mention – Mary Balogh

Favorite Medieval Romance – Ransom by Julie Garwood

Favorite Regency Romance – Fair Game by Diane Farr

Favorite European Historical Romance – How to Marry a Marquis by Julia Quinn

Favorite American or Western Historical Romance – A Rogue in Texas by Lorraine Heath

    Honorable Mention – Breathless by Laura Lee Guhrke

Favorite Contemporary Romance – Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Honorable Mention – Heartthrob by Suzanne Brockmann

Favorite Romantic Suspense – Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb

    Honorable Mention – All the Queen’s Men by Linda Howard

Favorite “Other” Romance – Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb

    Honorable Mention – Dark Prince by Christine Feehan

Author You Gave Up On – Catherine Coulter

Author Others Love that You Don’t – Nora Roberts

    (Dis)-Honorable Mentions –

      Danielle Steel
      Diana Gabaldon

Most Disappointing Read – Someday My Prince by Christina Dodd

Worst Read – Mad Jack by Catherine Coulter

Purple-est Prose – The Lady’s Tutor by Robin Schone

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