RITA®: Best Historical Romance

The Historical Romance category was established for the 2008 RITA awards. Previously, historical romance had been divided by length, with one award given for RITA®: Best Short Historical Romance and another for RITA®: Best Long Historical Romance. A third historical category, RITA®: Best Regency Romance, also existed. The Regency category focused on shorter novels that were largely devoid of sensual details the longer historical novels contained. Publishers abandoned the stand-alone Regency titles and the category was renamed RITA®: Regency Historical Romance in 2008.

Winners

• Sherry Thomas - 2010 - Not Quite A Husband, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
• Pam Rosenthal - 2009 - The Edge Of Impropriety Penguin Group USA, NAL, Signet Eclipse
• Madeline Hunter - 2008 - Lessons Of Desire, Bantam Dell Publishing Group