RITA Best Regency Historical Romance

Romance novels in which the majority of the story is set against the Regency period of the British Empire.

Judging guidelines: In this category, the love story is the main focus of the novel, and the ending is emotionally satisfying and optimistic.

 

Sélection 2012

A Night to Surrender

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 2012

de Tessa Dare

Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladieswith delicate constitutions come for the sea air,and men in their prime are . . . nowhere to be found.

Or are they?

Spindle Cove is the destination of choice forcertain...


Sélection 2011

The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 2011

de Lauren Willig

Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French aristocrats...


Sélection 2010

What Happens in London

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 2010

de Julia Quinn

Rumors and Gossip . . . The lifeblood of London

When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancée, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him,...


Sélection 2009

My Lord and Spymaster

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 2009

de Joanna Bourne

After her father is wrongly accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, lovely Jess Whitby infiltrates the London underworld for the real traitor-only to end up naked in the bed of a rude merchant captain. Not only...


Sélection 2008

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 2008

de Julia Quinn

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love.

At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the afternoon...


Sélection 1992

Emily and the Dark Angel

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 1992

de Jo Beverley

New York Times bestselling author Jo Beverley "brings the Regency Period to life." (Joan Hammond)

Emily Grantwich lives quietly with her crippled father and eccentric aunt, managing the family's land, until...