For secure routing of Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs), Energy-aware and Secure Multi-hop Routing(ESMR) is proposed. ESMR protocol increases the performance of energy efficiency with multi-hop data security against malicious actions. The network field is segmented into inner and outer zones based on the node location. Furthermore, in each zone, numerous clusters are generated on the basis of node neighborhood vicinity. Secondly, the data transmission from cluster heads in each zone towards the sink node is secured by using the proposed efficient secret key sharing scheme. The experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of proposed ESMR in terms of network lifetime, network throughput, energy consumption, average end-to-end delay in comparison with the existing work.