A big, big welcome to New Voices from all at Romance HQ!

New Voices is the search for some more glittering writing talent to join our galaxy of romantic fiction writing stars! And we need YOU!

And the story you voted for to be winner of New Voices 2011 is...

THE SEVEN DAY TARGET BY NATALIE CHARLES!

And here's what our lovely celebrity judge JODIE PRENGER had to say:

"The public made my dream come true & now it's happened for a budding author. No doubt The Seven Day Target will fly off the shelf as Natalie has been part of a competition which set the bar at a tremendously high level. So let's all raise a glass to Mills & Boon, a phenomenal winner and to all who entered!"

Congratulations to Natalie on winning New Voices!
This means she gets some very fabulous prizes:

• Publication of her story
• A Mills & Boon Editor for the year
• An iPad
• A Mills & Boon hamper

Everyone in the Top 21 gets a Mills & Boon hamper, and the Top 4 also get a Kindle.

THANK YOU!

Everyone at Romance HQ just wants to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who entered, read, commented, voted, facebooked, tweeted, blogged, and everything else you've done to support New Voices this year. It's been a truly fantastic competition and we honestly could not have done it without YOU!

• Beguiling the Enemy

  by Lindsay J. Pryor in Paranormal
  Submitted on Tuesday 20 September, 2011, 9:29 AM
  Caitlin Parish is the Vampire Control Unit's most gifted tracker. Kane Malloy is the irresistible vampire top of their most wanted list. Attraction should be the last thing on their minds, especially when both want justice and neither will concede. Rating: (57% by 71 users)
  

• The Seven Day Target

  by Natalie Charles in Romantic Suspense
  Submitted on Friday 16 September, 2011, 9:14 AM
  FBI Agent Nick Foster has seven days. Seven days to protect ex-fiancee Libby Andrews from the killer hunting her. Seven days to win back her reluctant heart and convince her to move with him to Virginia. Only seven days, and day one just ended. Rating: (57% by 62 users)
  

• Honeymoon With A Stranger

  by Charlotte Phillips in Warm and Cosy
  Submitted on Monday 26 September, 2011, 11:58 AM
  Anna Clark's fiance changed when he won a reality TV show, and after calling off the wedding she needs a quick way out of the chaos. Going alone on her own honeymoon seemed the perfect escape, but she reckoned without gorgeous hotelier Jack Sutherland. Rating: (56% by 59 users)
  

• Secrets and Seduction

  by Katie Graham in Historical
  Submitted on Monday 03 October, 2011, 11:33 AM
  Lady Holly Harrison is beautiful, sheltered, and a bit bored. From the ballroom and ladies parlours she watches with envy as the dramas of peoples lives unfold and fears she will always just be the one watching. But everything changes when her world colli Rating: (54% by 53 users)
  

Don't forget!

Top 4 write their pivital moment ends on Monday 31 October, 2011, 5:00 PM

Top 4 write their pivital moment ended on Monday 31 October, 2011, 5:00 PM

There are only left to join in!