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  • 'Novels over 60,000 words where the love story is the main focus of the novel, and the end of the book is emotionally satisfying and optimistic. Novels may be set in any place or time. Love scenes may contain any level of sensuality.'

    This award was inaugurated in 2009.

    Source: Romance Writers of Australia website, http://www.romanceaustralia.com
    Sighted: 18/08/2009

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2017

winner y separately published work icon Escaping Mr Right Avril Tremayne , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2015 10042823 2015 single work novel romance

'Sometimes Mr Right is Mr Wrong, and Mr Wrong is definitely Mr Right . . .

'Television reporter Chloe Masters is a woman of cool control . . . except when Casanova rugby league player Nick Savage is around. Then cool control goes out the window. Her boyfriend, Marcus, is everything she ever wanted - but it's getting harder to deny her body's reaction to Nick . . .

'Nick Savage has been head-over-heels since he first laid eyes on Chloe - just a moment too late to stop her connecting with his team mate, Marcus. But when the goalposts shift and he and Chloe are thrown together on a week away, Nick dares her to get physical in whatever way she wants - with a kiss, a punch or anything in between. And if Chloe claims to feel nothing, he'll leave her alone for good.

'How can Chloe say no to a week of mindless passion with the man she hasn't been able to get out of her head?

'Trouble is, a lot can go wrong (or right) in a week . . .'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2012

winner y separately published work icon Boomerang Bride Fiona Lowe , s.l. : Carina Press , 2012 Z1853763 2012 single work novel romance

'Matilda Geoffrey risked it all for love. She left Australia to be with Barry-the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-town Wisconsin, and things aren't working out exactly as planned...

'In town for his annual family visit, Marc Olsen had never seen a bride quite like Matilda-staring into a storefront window, holding a tottering wedding cake, and looking desperately in need of a groom. He may not have any warm feelings for his hometown, but meeting Matilda just as she discovers she's been scammed by her online "fiancé" stirs something in him.

'Matilida is not the kind of woman Marc imagined himself with, and Marc is anything but the romantic hero that Matilda has always dreamed of. But as unlikely circumstances throw them together, can they let go of their misconceptions and risk their hearts for love?'

Source: Fiona Lowe's website, http://www.fionalowe.com/
Sighted: 10/04/2012

Year: 2009

winner y separately published work icon The Stolen Princess Anne Gracie , New York (City) : Berkley Sensation , 2008 Z1473292 2008 single work novel historical fiction romance

'The younger son of an earl, Gabriel Fitzpaine earned glory and honor on the battlefield, but now, without purpose, he finds himself deliberately courting danger at every turn. Then one night he races his horse along a death-defying moonlit cliff-and stumbles upon a princess on the run.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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