2000 Annual Reader Poll (For 1999 Releases)

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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