Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards

• RWA - Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)
• RWA - Hall of Fame (1998)
• Romantic Times - Career Achievement Award, Storyteller of the Year (1998)
• Romantic Times - Career Achievement Award, Series Romantic Adventure (1991- 1992)
• Affaire de Coeur - Silver Quill Award for All Time '80s Best Contemporary Romances (1989)
• Romantic Times - Best Series Romance Author (1989)
• Romantic Times - Lifetime Achievement Award (1988-1989)
• Romantic Times - Best Sensual Series Author (1985)

Individual Book Awards and Nominations

• Irresistible Stranger: Romantic Times - Reviewer's Choice Finalist for Best Silhouette Romantic Suspense (2010)
• Mesmerizing Stranger: Romantic Times - Reviewer's Choice Finalist for Best Silhouette Romantic Suspense (2010)
• Born in My Heart : RWA - RITA Winner (2008)
• Blame It on Cupid: RWA - RITA Finalist (2008)
• Nobody's Princess: RWA - RITA Winner (1998)
• Single Dad: RWA - RITA Winner (1996)
• Quicksand: RWA - RITA Finalist (1994)
• Pink Topaz: Romantic Times - Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Romantic Suspense (1991-1992)
• Broken Blossom: RWA - RITA Finalist (1991)
• Broken Blossom: Romantic Times - Reviewer's Choice Finalist for Best Intimate Moments (1989-1990)
• Devil's Night: RWA - RITA Finalist (1990)
• Dancing in the Dark - Romantic Times - Reviewer's Choice Finalist for Best Silhouette Desire (1988-1990)
• Night of the Hunter: RWA - RITA Winner (1989)
• Night of the Hunter: Affaire de Coeur - Silver Certificate (1989)
• Night of the Hunter: Romantic Times - Reviewer's Choice Finalist for Best Silhouette Desire (1989)
• Secrets: RWA - RITA Finalist (1989)
• No More Mr. Nice Guy: Affaire de Coeur - Silver Certificate (1987)
• Ain't Misbehaving: RWA - Golden Medallion Finalist (1986)
• Silver and Spice: RWA - Silver Medallion (1984)