[fusion_builder_container background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”” padding_right=”” hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_title size=”1″ content_align=”center” style_type=”none” sep_color=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]2015 Annual Reader Poll Results (for 2014 Releases)[/fusion_title][fusion_text]
Please click the accompanying article for comments from the winning authors and our short commentary on this year’s poll.
(If there are multiple honorable mentions, they are listed in vote order unless they are a tie)
[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_tabs design=”classic” layout=”horizontal” justified=”yes” backgroundcolor=”” inactivecolor=”” bordercolor=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_tab title=”Best Romance Novels” icon=””]Best 2014 Romance Novels
- Best Contemporary Romance:-It Happened One Wedding, Julie James
- Best Romantic Suspense :- River Road, Jayne Ann Krentz
- Best Paranormal Romance :- Shield of Winter, Nalini Singh
- Best Romantic Science Fiction :- The Kraken King, Meljean Brook
- Best Romantic Fantasy Fiction :- The Winter King, C.L. Wilson
- Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K. :- Only Enchanting, Mary Balogh
- Honorable Mentions :-Rogue Spy by Joanna Bourne , Three Weeks with Lady X by Eloisa Jam , The Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan
- Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K. :- My Beautiful Enemy, Sherry Thomas
- Funniest Romance :- It Happened One Wedding, Julie James
- Biggest Tearjerker :- My Beautiful Enemy, Sherry Thomas
- Best Love Scenes (in a Mainstream Romance) TIE :- Fool Me Twice, Meredith Duran , It Happened One Wedding, Julie James
- Honorable Mention :- Rock Addiction, Nalini Singh
- Best Category Romance :- Mr. (Not Quite) Perfect , Jessica Hart
- Best Erotica/Romantica :- Having Her, Jackie Ashenden
- Best Romance Short Story :- A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, Cecilia Grant
- Best LGBT Romance :- Think of England, K.J. Charles
- Best Debut Author :- Sonali Dev
- Best Young Adult :- Isla and the Happily Ever After, Stephanie Perkins
- Honorable Mention :- The Perilous Sea, Sherry Thomas
- Best New Adult :- The Hook Up, Kristen Callihan
- Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements :- A Grave Matter, Anna Lee Huber
Best 2014 Characters
- Best Romance Hero :- Duncan West in Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover, Sarah MacLean
- Honorable Mention :- Thorn Dautry in Three Weeks with Lady X, Eloisa James
- Best Romance Heroine :- Frederica (Free) Marshall in The Suffragette Scandal, by Courtney Milan
- Honorable Mention :- Georgiana Pearson in Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover, Sarah MacLean
- Most Tortured Hero :- Alastair de Grey in Fool Me Twice, by Meredith Duran
- Honorable Mention :- Flavian Arnott in Only Enchanting, Mary Balogh
- Most Kickass Heroine :- Frederica (Free) Marshall in The Suffragette Scandal, by Courtney Milan
- Honorable Mentions :- Georgina (Chase) Pearson in Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover Sarah MacLean , Kate Daniels in Magic Breaks Ilona Andrews, Catherine Blade in My Beautiful Enemy Sherry Thomas
- Best Romance Couple :- Sidney and Vaughn in It Happened One Wedding, Julie James