2020 RWA PRISM Award (Awarded by Romance Writers of America (PRISM))

Awards List

Best First Book

Bound in Flame
(Winner)
Katherine Kayne

BITTEN
(Finalist)
Melinda Rucker Haynes

North to Nara
(Finalist)
Amanda Marin

Best of the Best

Chasing the Shadows
(Winner)
Maria V. Snyder

Dark Paranormal

The Rookie
(Winner)
Abigail Owen

Darkness Rising
(Finalist)
Katie Reus

The Rogue King
(Finalist)
Abigail Owen

Chase's Fire
(Finalist)
Casey Wyatt

Fantasy

The Eyes of Tamburah
(Winner)
Maria V. Snyder

Promise of Darkness
(Finalist)
Bec McMaster

Deadly Courtship
(Finalist)
Jaycee Jarvis

Futuristic

Red Zone
(Winner)
Janet Elizabeth Henderson

Heart of Eon
(Finalist)
Anna Hackett

Red Awakening
(Finalist)
Janet Elizabeth Henderson

Greed
(Finalist)
Lana Pescherczyk
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Light Paranormal

Bishop Takes Knight
(Winner)
McKenna Dean

Demon on the Down-Low
(Finalist)
E.J. Russell

Found
(Finalist)
Meg Benjamin

Novella

Sinner
(Winner)
Lana Pescherczyk
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Jaguar's Mate
(Finalist)
Savannah Stuart

Thief of Dreams
(Finalist)
Bec McMaster

Steampunk

Not a Mourning Person
(Winner)
Catherine Stein

Dukes Are Forever
(Finalist)
Bec McMaster

Eden's Voice
(Finalist)
Catherine Stein

Urban Fantasy

Charming Marjani
(Winner)
Rebecca Rivard

Reach For Me
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Cole

Retribution
(Finalist)
Joanna Homer

Young Adult

Chasing the Shadows
(Winner)
Maria V. Snyder

Enduring Destiny
(Finalist)
Shaila Patel

Evergreen
(Finalist)
Marissa Doyle

Award Categories

Best First Book

Best of the Best

Dark Paranormal

Erotica/Romantica

Fantasy

Futuristic

Futuristic/Fantasy

Historical

Light Paranormal

Novella

Steampunk

Time Travel

Urban Fantasy

Young Adult

Award Years

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