The year 2007 was one of changes for the RBL Romantica Hughie Awards. Some categories were renamed and one, Best Cover, was eliminated. The biggest change, however, was the addition of the DIVA OF ROMANCE! category. This award is given to an author who has been published for at least ten years and has had at least ten books published, and who is recognized by all romance readers as a leader in the genre.

And now, without further ado, the winners of THE TENTH ANNUAL RBL ROMANTICA HUGHIE AWARDS are ...

DIVA OF ROMANCE!

NORA ROBERTS

HILDY HUGHIE AWARD FOR BEST AMERICAN HISTORICAL ROMANCE

A WANTED MAN by Linda Lael Miller

BEST ENGLISH/SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ROMANCE

NEVER LIE TO A LADY by Liz Carlyle
and
THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS MIRANDA CHEEVER by Julia Quinn

BEST UNIQUE HISTORICAL ROMANCE
(Medieval, Viking, pirate, unique location, etc.)

THE WARRIOR by Kinley MacGregor

BEST CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

NATURAL BORN CHARMER by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

BEST CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC SUSPENSE/MYSTERY

FORCE OF NATURE by Suzanne Brockmann

BEST CONTEMPORARY SERIES/CATEGORY ROMANCE

RAINTREE: INFERNO by Linda Howard

BEST VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/SHAPESHIFTER PARANORMAL ROMANCE

LOVER REVEALED by J.R. Ward

BEST FUTURISTIC/OTHER WORLD PARANORMAL ROMANCE

CREATION IN DEATH by J.D. Robb

BEST TIME TRAVEL PARANORMAL ROMANCE

DOWN AND DIRTY by Sandra Hill

BEST UNIQUE PARANORMAL ROMANCE
(witches, elves, magical powers, fantasy, etc.)

THE DREAM-HUNTER by Sherrilyn Kenyon

BEST ANTHOLOGY

BEYOND THE DARK by Angela Knight,
Diane Whiteside, Emma Holly and Lora Leigh

BEST TITLE (cleverest, most appropriate, etc.)

BLOODFEVER by Karen Marie Moning

BEST AUTHOR

J.R. Ward

BEST NEW-TO-YOU AUTHOR

Nalini Singh

FAVORITE HERO

Jericho Barrons
(BLOODFEVER by Karen Marie Moning)

FAVORITE HEROINE

Eve Dallas
(In Death Series by J.D. Robb)

FAVORITE SECONDARY CHARACTER - MALE

Acheron
(Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

FAVORITE SECONDARY CHARACTER - FEMALE

Simi
(Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

FUNNIEST BOOK

DEVIL MAY CRY by Sherrilyn Kenyon

HOTTEST BOOK

FAIRYVILLE by Emma Holly

MOST TOUCHING BOOK

LOVER UNBOUND by J.R. Ward

BEST BOOK-YOU-READ-IN-2007-
THAT-WAS-PUBLISHED-BEFORE-2007

PARADISE by Judith McNaught