Following are the winners of the 2025 Romance Through the Ages Contest in the Unpublished and Published Categories:
Unpublished
Colonial – Western – Civil War
- Scarlet Fever by Lindley McDonald MS
- To Tame the Storm by Jennifer Barton* MS
- Forged in Honor by Joanne Golliday*
Final Round Judge: Melanie Billings, The Wild Rose Press
Georgian – Victorian
- The Bastard Duke by Audrey Taylor*
- Castle in the Gloaming by Pippa Spencer*
- The Danger of Tangled Threads by Selma Maude
Final Round Judge: Erin Molta, Entangled Publishing
Post-Victorian – World Wars – Modern
- The Final Bounty by Carly Shilling
- The Third Letter by Katharine Rogers
- Death in Miniature by Pamela Ruth Meyer
Final Round Judge: Erin Niumata, Folio Literary Management
Regency
- Yours in Lace by Miranda Reese MS
- A Rogue’s Guide to Winning a Wife by Meredith Phillips
- Harbored Desires by Shannon Frances James
Final Round Judge: Elizabeth Vinson, Berkeley/Penguin Random House
* = HHRW member
MS = full MS request
Published
Ancient – Medieval – Renaissance
- Laird of Lies by Willa Blair
- The Skull & The Lute by Leslie Vollard*
Final Round Judges: PJ Ausdenmore of The Romance Dish
Colonial – Western – Civil War
- Loving Lizzie Finn by Tamara Hughes
- Knight Time in Texas by Katy Berritt
Final Round Judge: Jonlyn Scrogham, A Novel Romance Bookstore
Georgian – Victorian
- The Baron Takes a Wife by Anna Valleria
- Three Sins & a Scoundrel by Tracy Sumner
Final Round Judge: Katie Garaby, Parnassus Books
Post-Victorian – World Wars – Modern
- All She Ever Wanted by Marissa McQueen
- The Audition by Eugenia Riley
Final Round Judge: Mary Wallace Moore, 2012 Cathie Linz Librarian of the Year
Regency
- Ash & the Butterfly by Lark Maitland
- Nobody’s Rogue by Brenna Ash
Final Round Judge: Katie Streit, The Ripped Bodice Bookstore LA
* HHRW member