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RITA Awards

Award for English-language romance fiction, presented by the Romance Writers of America (RWA). Named for the RWA's first president, Rita Clay Estrada.

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The RITA Awards
Romance Novellas
Awarded since 1990

2000-2009

Starry, Starry Night by Marianne Willman
 

Final Approach to Forever by Merline Lovelace from Once Upon A Dream

I Will by Lisa Kleypas from Wish List

To Kiss in Shadows by Lynn Kurland

Prisoner of the Tower by Gayle Wilson in The Wedding Chase

Her Enemy by Maggie Shayne in Night's Edge

The Naked Truth about Guys by Alesia Holliday in The Naked Truth

Tis the Silly Season by Roxanne St. Claire in A NASCAR Holiday

Born in My Heart by Jennifer Greene in Like Mother, Like Daughter

The Fall of Rogue Gerard by Stephanie Laurens in It Happened One Night

2010-2019

The Christmas Eve Promise by Molly O'Keefe in The Night Before Christmas

Shifting Sea by Virginia Kantra in Burning Up

I Love the Earl by Caroline Linden

Seduced by a Pirate by Eloisa James

Take Me, Cowboy by Jane Porter

His Road Home by Anna Richland

Nice Girls Don't Ride by Roni Loren

Her Every Wish by Courtney Milan

Forbidden River by Brynn Kelly

 

Bad Blood by M. Malone