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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