(If there are multiple honorable mentions, they are listed in vote order unless they are a tie)
| Best 2012 Romance Novels |
Best Romance |
A Notorious Countess Confesses, Julie Anne Long
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Best Contemporary Romance |
About That Night, Julie James |
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Best Romantic Suspense |
The Witness, Nora Roberts |
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Best Paranormal Romance Honorable Mention |
Lothaire, Kresley Cole
Riveted, Meljean Brook |
| Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K. Honorable Mention |
A Week to Be Wicked, Tessa Dare
Ravishing the Heiress , Sherry Thomas
A Notorious Countess Confesses , Julie Anne Long |
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| Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K. |
Defiant, Pamela Clare |
Funniest Romance |
A Week to Be Wicked , Tessa Dare |
| Biggest Tearjerker |
Ravishing the Heiress, Sherry Thomas |
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| Best Love Scenes (in a Mainstream Romance) |
Thief of Shadows, Elizabeth Hoyt |
| Best Category Romance |
Suddenly You , Sarah Mayberry |
Best Chick Lit/Women's Fiction |
I've Got Your Number , Sophie Kinsella |
Best Erotica/Romantica |
Bared to You, Sylvia Day
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| Best Romance Short Story |
The Governess Affair, Courtney Milan |
Best Debut Author |
Cecilia Grant
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| Best 2012 Characters |
| Best Romance Hero |
Adam Sylvaine in A Notorious Countess Confesses, Julie Anne Long |
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Best Romance Heroine |
Minerva Highwood in A Week to Be Wicked, by Tessa Dare |
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| Most Tortured Hero |
Gideon Cross in Bared To You, by Sylvia Day
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| Most Kickass Heroine |
Andrea Nash in Gunmetal Magic, by Ilona Andrews
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| Best Romance Couple
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Lord Colin Payne and Minerva Highwood in A Week to Be Wicked, by Tessa Dare
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