1988 Golden Heart Winners

1988 Golden Heart Contest

Entry fee: $15 Entries: 847

Category Descriptions (Note: Listing of publishers is meant for example only and is not all inclusive.) Historical Romance Novels and sagas with primary settings, such as those published by Zebra Historical Romances, Zebra Gothics, Avon Romances, Pocket Historicals, Signet Historicals, Onyx Historicals, Harlequin Gothics, Fawcett Historicals, Walker Historicals, Berkley/Jove Historicals, Warner Historicals, Ballantine Historicals, Zondervan Historicals, and the hardcover houses. Long Contemporary Romance (Over 70,000 words in length) Longer sensuous romances such as those published by Dell Ecstasy Supreme, Harlequin Super Romance, Harlequin American, Harlequin Intrigue, Silhouette Special Edition, and Silhouette Intimate Moments. Regency Romance Novels with primary settings during the Regency period in England, such as those published by Harlequin, Walker, Signet, NAL, Zebra, Fawcett, Warner, and Avon. Short Contemporary Romance (Under 70,000 words in length) Short, sensuous romances such as those published by Dell Ecstasy, Silhouette Desire, Harlequin Presents, Harlequin Temptation, Bantam Loveswept and Berkley/Jove Second Chance at Love. Single Title Release Romance Novels which are non-category in nature, which do not qualify for any other category, and which are released as individual titles and not as part of a numbered line, such as those books released as individual titles from NAL, Dell, Worldwide, Berkley/Jove, Bantam, Warner, and Walker. Traditional Romance Romances in which the protagonists do not usually make love unless they are married to each other and in which love scenes are not graphically described, such as those published by Harlequin Romance, Silhouette Romance, Zondervan Serenade and Doubleday Starlight. Young Adult Romance Novels geared to teenaged readers which may or may not be typical romances, such as those published by NAL Vista, Scholastic, Silhouette First Love, Crosswinds, Archway Books, and Bantam Sweet Dreams, Seniors and Couples.

Winners & Finalists

Historical Romance “Kate's Revenge” Patricia Gaffney “Arrington's Countess” Tommye Ring Morton “Captive of Fate” Elise W. Ryan “Passion's Masquerade” Diane Stuckart “Threads of Destiny” Arnette Lamb “To Fetch a Bride” Regina Pounds

Long Contemporary Romance “Shadows on the Ice” Laurie Sunshine “Casanova's Lady” Dawn Boese “Duet” Pat Collinge “Kristin's Fancy “ Kate Tomlin “Masquerade” Thelma Zirkelbach “Midnight Blue” Nancy Berland

Regency Romance “Second Son” Katherine Moore “Fame Finds Miss Eversham” Christie Kennard

Short Contemporary Romance “Sweeter by Far” Sheila Slattery “Affair of the Heart” Thelma Zirkelbach “A Face in the Dark” Binnie Syril Braunstein “Fire Season” Anne Hansen “A Little Midnight Madness” Jimmie Morel “Reflections in Crystal” Kathleen Beck

Single Title Release “Opal Fire” Dana Lynn Hites “Color of the Wind” Tracy Primm “Deadly Puzzle” Lori Rheaume

Traditional Romance “His Kind of Woman” Pat Tracy “Angel Meets the Law” Jean G. Wilson “Diamond Days “ Gloria Dale Skinner “For Love of Lisa” Dana Lynn Hites “Glass Mountain” Sharon Morris “Stormy Surrender” Lynne Anne Cormack “Two Hearts Too Late” Christie Craig

Young Adult Romance “The Play's the Thing” Laura A. Sonnenmark “Porcelain Season” Heather MacAllister “Secret of Stagecoach City” Janet Spaeth “Truth or Consequence” Deborah Clayman