The RoNA Rose Award: This award (formerly the Love Story of the Year) recognises the best in category and shorter romance – novels that focus on the developing love affair between the hero and heroine. These titles may no longer be in print but can be obtained as ebooks.
The 2012 winner:
He may be an earl, but even in the wilds of Yorkshire Beth Forrester has heard tales of the incorrigible rake that make her toes curl… Unexpectedly hosting such a scandalous celebrity is only the first of Beth’s problems. Now the wicked Lord Darrington has found out about the dark secret she will do anything to protect.
The 2012 shortlist:
A Christmas Knight by Kate Hardy
Posh emergency doc meets single mum emergency nurse; Louisa and her son teach Dominic to overcome his troubled past, and he teaches them that they can fit into a family.
Bag: packed. Flight: booked. New job in a foreign country: Rome here I come…
Newly single Sarah Gratton is starting a new life, in a new country. Could a just-for-fun flirtation with a dark-eyed Italian, Conte Matteo di Serrone, cure her broken heart? Dare she make the first move? Watch this space!
The ultimate ordinary girl, Caro reluctantly agrees to help an old friend by masquerading as Prince Philippe’s latest squeeze for a couple of months. But what happens when their pretence unexpectedly becomes all too convincing? In the real world princes don’t marry ordinary girls… do they?
Secrets and scullduggery in Regency England. Nell Kydd’s brother is missing, her father is dead and her loathsome uncle is ruining the family estate. Cue Captain Hugo Derringer who blows hot, then cold, and is discovered in odd places asking some very odd questions. How far can Nell trust him?
Recently returned from the battlefields of Waterloo, the last thing wounded war hero Viscount Cavenham anticipates is a conflict in his home town! At first Miles relishes having headstrong, outspoken Helen as his foe, but as they continue to cross swords their animosity turns to attraction. Suddenly Miles finds he no longer wants Helen as his enemy – he’d like to make this unsuitable miss his wife!
