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(For 2006 releases)
[/fusion_title][fusion_text]Winners…pick up your awards here
(If there are multiple honorable mentions, they are listed in vote order unless they are a tie)
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- Best Romance Honorable Mention :- Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase
- Favorite Funny Honorable Mention :- Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase
Drop Dead Gorgeous, Linda Howard - Most-Hanky Read Honorable Mention :- Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward Simply Love, Mary Balogh
- Most Luscious Love Story Honorable Mention :- The Raven Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt
Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas - Best Erotic Romance :- All U Can Eat, Emma Holly
- Best Cabin/Road Romance :- Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase
- Best New Author :- Elizabeth Hoyt
- Best Buried Treasure Honorable Mentions :- Jacob, Jacquelyn Frank Beauty and the Spy, Julie Anne Long The Raven Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt
- Guiltiest Pleasure Honorable Mention :- All U Can Eat, Emma Holly
Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas - Author Most Glommed :- J.R. Ward
- Best Medieval/Renaissance :- Laird of the Mist, Paula Quinn
- Best European Historical Honorable Mention :- Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas
Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase - Best Amer Hist/Frontier tie :-A Reason To Live, Maureen McKade
The Rogue’s Return, Jo Beverley (partially set in Canadian frontier) - Best Contemporary Honorable Mentions :- Drop Dead Gorgeous, Linda Howard Angels Fall, Nora Roberts Sex, Lies, and Online Dating, Rachel Gibson
- Best Series (Category) :- Family at Stake, Molly O’Keefe
- Best Romantic Suspense onorable Mention :- Cold as Ice, Anne Stuart Angels Fall, Nora Roberts
- Best Paranormal :- Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward
- Best Chick Lit/Wom Fict Honorable Mention :- Hot Dish, Connie Brockway Summer at Willow Lake, Susan Wiggs
- Best Short Story Honorable Mention:- Hot Toy (Santa, Baby), Jennifer Crusie The Warlord Wants Forever (Playing Easy To Get), Kresley Cole
Best 2006 Characters
- Most Tortured Hero :- Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward- Zsadist
- Strongest Heroine Honorable Mentions :- Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward Memory in Death, J.D. Robb Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase – Bella Eve Dallas Bathsheba Wingate
- Best Hero :- Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas – Sebastian (St. Vincent)
- Best Heroine Honorable Mentions :- Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase Drop Dead Gorgeous, Linda Howard – Evie Jenner Bathsheba Wingate Blair Mallory
- Best Couple Honorable Mentions :- Lord Perfect, Loretta Chase Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward – Bathsheba/Benedict Evie/Sebastian Bella/Zsadist
- Best Villain :- Lover Awakened, J.R. Ward (unnamed to avoid spoilers)
Worst of the Year for 2006
- Most Annoying Lead:- Drop Dead Gorgeous, Linda Howard- Blair Mallory
- Author You Gave Up On Dishonorable Mentions :- Christina Dodd Nora Roberts Julia Quinn
- Most Disappointing Read :- On the Way To the Wedding, Julia Quinn
- Worst Read :- On the Way To the Wedding, Julia Quinn
- Purple-est Prose Dishonorable Mention :- Prince of Ice, Emma Holly
Mistral’s Kiss, Laurell K. Hamilton
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