О премии

Премия "Вивиан" — высшая американская литературная награда в области романтической прозы, которая присуждалась за выдающиеся достижения в написании романов и демонстрировала талант и творческий потенциал автора.

Это самая престижная ежегодная награда для авторов англоязычных любовных романов. До 2020 года награда носила название "Рита". Одновременно с переименованием премии было введено несколько новых номинаций.

Премия была учреждена в 1982 году национальной некоммерческой ассоциацией писателей романтического жанра (Romance Writers of America / RWA) с целью признания самых лучших опубликованных романов и новелл.

Количество и названия номинаций на протяжении лет постоянно менялись.

Награда открывалась для заявок осенью. В конкурсе участвовало до 2000 романов. Каждая номинируемая книга оценивалась пятью отдельными судьями в предварительном раунде. Финалисты объявлялись в середине марта. Победителей среди финалистов определяло специальное жюри. Имена лауреатов объявлялись в июле, на ежегодной церемонии награждения, проводимой в последний день Национальной конференции RWA.

Каждый победитель получал золотую статуэтку, редакторы книг получали мемориальную доску.

С 2022 года премия не присуждается.

Жанры: Зарубежная литература, Зарубежные детективы, Зарубежные любовные романы, Современная зарубежная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2021 г. Последнее вручение: 2022 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.rwa.org/TheVivian

Номинации

Лучшая первая опубликованная книга
Best First Published Book

Номинация для произведений автора, который не должен иметь никакого другого романа или новеллы, ранее коммерчески доступного в любом формате.

Современный длинный роман
Contemporary Romance: Long

Номинация для романов, повествующих о периоде с 1950 года по настоящее время и содержащих 84 000 и более слов.

Современный короткий роман
Contemporary Romance: Short

Номинация для романов, повествующих о периоде с 1950 года по настоящее время и содержащих от 40 000 до 56 000 слов.

Современный средний роман
Contemporary Romance: Mid-Length

Номинация для романов, повествующих о периоде с 1950 года по настоящее время и содержащих от 56 000 до 84 000 слов.

Эротический роман
Erotic Romance

Номинация для романов, в которых сильное, часто откровенное, сексуальное взаимодействие является неотъемлемой частью истории любви, роста характера и развития отношений и не может быть удалено без ущерба для сюжетной линии. Эти романы могут содержать элементы других поджанров (таких как паранормальные, исторические и т. д.).

Исторический длинный роман
Historical Romance: Long

Номинация для романов, описывающих события до 1950 года и содержащие более 89 000 слов.

Исторический средний роман
Historical Romance: Mid

Номинация для романов, повествующих о событиях до 1950 года и содержащих от 56 000 до 84 000 слов.

Мейнстрим прозы
Мейнстрим прозы

Предназначена для романов c сильными романтическими элементами, не вписывающихся ни в какую другую категорию из-за их основного художественного характера.

Самый ожидаемый роман
Most Anticipated Romance
Романтический саспенс - длинный
Romantic Suspense - Long

Номинация для романов, в которых элементы неизвестности, загадки, тайны или триллера составляют неотъемлемую часть сюжета.

Романтический Саспенс средней длины
Mid-Length Romantic Suspense
Умозрительный роман - длинный
Speculative Romance - Long
Умозрительный роман - средней длины
Speculative Romance - Mid-Length
Роман с религиозными или духовными элементами
Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements

Предназначена для романов, в которых религиозные или духовные верования являются неотъемлемой частью истории любви, роста характера и развития отношений, и не могут быть удалены без ущерба для сюжетной линии.

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"Hardy har har," Wynn retorted. "How did it happen?"

"How did what happen?"

The growl in his voice probably cowed a great many folks. She didn't happen to be one of them. Even if he was big and intense and talked about delivering death like it was the mail. "Your leg."

He didn't respond. Instead, he stood at the sink and stared out into the storm.

"Is it a state secret?" she wanted to know. "A matter of national security? An injury suffered while on a clandestine mission that you can't talk about under penalty of death? Did they make you swear on a Bible?"

"You're a piece of work," he said.

"I know." When he turned to glower at her, she smiled. "It's a gift."

His gaze fell to her mouth, and awareness speared through her, a hot, electric slide that made her cheeks burn.

He was attracted to her, the same way she was attracted to him. And he didn't like it.

Not one bit.

You and me both, bucko...

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When a local bank robbery brings newly elected Sheriff Beau Greystone to Wynn Owens' front door, she has only two things to give him: the endless bounty of her caustic wit and a one-finger salute. Wynn has history with the law, none of it good. And the notion that one of her elderly tenants might have something to do with the robbery is just plain crazy.

A former DEA agent, Beau owes his newly minted badge solely to his meddling aunt and his own foolish indifference. Recovering from the murder of his wife-and the debilitating injury caused by the explosion that killed her-Beau has been happily checked out for some time. But the people of Blossom Hills are counting on him to do his job, and bringing a bank robber to justice is a fine place to start...until the killer that's haunted the town for the last decade abruptly returns.


Wynn has a tenant to exonerate; Beau, a killer to catch. Neither is prepared for the compelling but unwelcome current between them, or the unexpected circumstances that will force them to reassess the rules by which they live. But the clock is ticking, and they must decide: adapt and evolve, or surrender to the past and the dark malevolence that has risen within it....
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Forced to work together, the battle-hardened HRT team leader and the quietly determined negotiator figure out they might have more in common than they anticipated. As the clock ticks, Charlotte discovers there are some dangers she can’t talk her way out of, and the race to unearth long-buried lies becomes a matter of survival for everyone on the mountain.
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Breathe in. Breathe out. Survive.

Marilyn Ellis is finally putting her life back together. The domestic abuse she suffered may be labeled textbook by therapists, but it’s the parts she’s never told anyone that haunt her.

She refuses to get trapped in that hell ever again.

Former Special Forces soldier turned rancher Noah Dempsey is more than capable of training the delicate single mom in moves and tactics that will help her feel safe. But his own tortured past makes him decidedly less qualified for anything more.

No matter how much her big eyes—and even bigger heart—draw him in.

However, when unexpected danger arrives in their small town, Noah knows this is a woman worth fighting for. Worth fighting beside. And he’s going to be the one to do it.

She needs a hero.
He’ll have to remember how to be one.
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Келли Армстронг 4.0
Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination.

Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, William is waiting.

William Thorne is no longer the boy she remembers. He’s a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by tragedy and a scandal that had him retreating to self-imposed exile in his beloved moors. He’s also none too pleased with Bronwyn for abandoning him all those years ago.

As their friendship rekindles and sparks into something more, Bronwyn must also deal with ghosts in the present version of the house. Soon she realizes they are linked to William and the secret scandal that drove him back to Thorne Manor. To build a future, Bronwyn must confront the past.
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