Joan Johnston

Determined to escape the brutality of a Chicago orphanage, Miranda Wentworth becomes a mail-order bride and brings her two younger brothers with her to Texas where they finally find a place to call home with her new husband and his young daughter. Original.

Texas Bride

Hannah Wentworth, who is newly widowed, pregnant, and alone in the Wyoming wilderness, agrees to marry Flint Creed, a bitter man who is in desperate need of a wife, and together they face the dangers of the frontier.

Wyoming Bride

After her family moves from Australia to Wyoming so her father can take over his family's ranch, pregnant Pippa Grayhawk is drawn to loner Devon Flynn despite the feud between their families and her own lack of faith in men.

Shameless

Determined to capture the heart of her childhood friend Ethan Hawk, Patch Kendrick, now a beautiful blonde, helps Patch clear his name so that he will be free to love. By the author of Kid Calhoun.

Outlaw's Bride

Having lost his memory, Alastair Wharton, the Duke of Blackthorne, takes a position as the bodyguard to the new head of the Mackinnon clan--as she challenges his most profitable estate in Scotland--but watchful of her every move, Alastair finds himself yearning for Katherine rather than loathing her

The Bodyguard

Danny is a truly talented drummer and everyone knows it. But Charlie, the other drummer in seventh grade, is jealous of Danny's success. All Danny wants to do is play the drums, but Charlie keeps getting in the way. When tensions mount between Danny and Charlie, they are given a difficult punishment - they have to play a drumming duet in the school concert.

A Stranger's Game

Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.

The Loner

Trace Blackthorne offers to save Callie Creed's family from financial ruin, despite the long feud between their families, if she will marry him

The Cowboy

In New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston’s scorching contemporary romance, a second chance at love may be the last. When a sudden tornado of flame from a raging forest fire snuffs out both engines of the Twin Otter being piloted by Taylor Grayhawk, she locks eyes with the last man on the plane: her longtime enemy and one-time lover, smoke jumper Brian Flynn. Grayhawk and Flynn can’t agree on anything—not even how to escape their desperate situation. Once they’re on the ground, the only shelter they can find leaves the adversaries trapped together—with no way out. Injured and starving, Taylor and Brian struggle to survive, yet somehow the threat of imminent death reignites something deep and powerful between them. Feelings they thought long dead rise from the ashes, suddenly making them more than just allies in a life-or-death struggle against nature’s fury. A still greater challenge awaits when fate delivers them from harm and puts their rekindled love to its ultimate test: Surrender to each other, or part forever. Praise for Surrender “A dazzling story of passion and second chances at love . . . When the two star-crossed lovers meet again, tensions rise with heart-pounding desire that will burn up the sheets. . . . [Surrender] is explosively sexy and that makes Joan Johnston the leading lady in contemporary romances.”—RT Book Reviews “The fast and furious pace is what makes this read thoroughly enjoyable. . . . Chock-full of excitement, intrigue and sensual romance . . . a wonderful story of survival and determination.”—bookworm2bookworm

A Bitter Creek Novel

Surrender

Widow and single mother Honey Farrell, determined never to love again, finds herself falling for her new employee, cowboy Jesse Whitelaw, who, unbeknownst to Honey, has a hidden agenda that could destroy them both. Reprint..

Honey and the Hired Hand

An English earl, Lionel Morgan sets out to civilize a brash and beautiful American woman, Charlotte Edgerton, but the passion generated by his young, headstrong ward proves to be a greater challenge than he had ever dreamed. Original.

Captive

Determined to elude the confines of marriage, beautiful Lady Regina Wharton meets her match in the dashing and enigmatic Clay Bannister, the Earl of Carlisle, and as they prepare to plunge into marital bliss, she is shocked to discover that she is about to marry her father's greatest enemy. Original.

The Bridegroom

The New York Times bestselling author of Texas Bride evokes the grandeur, excitement, and danger of the American frontier in this “sprawling, sensuous” (Booklist) historical novel. When Kinyan Holloway’s husband is killed in a range accident, she has no idea how she and her children will manage. Torn between the Sioux world in which she was raised and maintaining her husband’s ranch—the largest in the Wyoming Territory—she knows only that she must not just survive but preserve her children’s heritage for them. Into her life rides Benjamin Colter, a scarred stranger who’s fast with his gun. Colter has tried to put vengeance behind him, but the past seems destined to catch up with him. What he wants now is Kinyan Holloway—and her ranch—but he can get them only if he defeats a deadly rival and agrees to become a father to three children who want more from him than he’s able to give.

Colter's Wife

Elizabeth Sheringham defiantly refuses to abide by the rules of proper English society, until Beau Wharton, Duke of Blackthorn, scarred by war and called the "Beast of Blackthorn," is moved by fate to win the stubborn beauty, demanding marriage in exchange for employing her as his nieces' governess. Original.

After the Kiss

The son of a white father and a Comanche mother, Long Quiet has long loved Bayleigh Stewart, the daughter of the wealthiest cotton planter in Texas, and has searched for years for the beauty, abducted by marauders, until he rescues her from her captors. Original.

Comanche Woman

When Karl Norwood's mail order bride is killed on her way to meet him, Hetty Wentworth takes her place, pretending to be the dead woman, but when Karl discovers her deception, she risks losing the man she has come to love.

Montana Bride

When Josie Wentworth, a maid in the house of the Duke of Blackthorne, becomes a wealthy heiress, she vows to teach the duke, whom she has despised for years, a lesson by transforming herself in order to catch his eye, and then breaking his heart.

Blackthorne's Bride

In desperate need of a wife so that he can keep custody of his two young children, Delta sergeant Connor Flynn tries to convince his late wife's best friend, Eve Grayhawk, who is secretly in love with him, to marry him.

Sinful

Shattered

A lavish summer wedding is being planned at Bitter Creek ranch. In one month, Clay Blackthorne will wed socialite Jocelyn Montrose. But when she hears stirrings of a corporate takeover by the family's archrival, North Grayhawk, Jocelyn covertly heads to North's ranch to offer a valuable commodity -- herself -- if North will call off his plans. Striking a deal to spend the summer with the steely, seductive North, Jocelyn fails to see that her sacrifice to protect the man she loves may have dire consequences. Stunned by his fiancee's rejection, Clay, a newly appointed federal judge, begins presiding over an incendiary terrorism trial, which brings him face to face with his first love, Libby Grayhawk. As tensions mount, forces beyond Clay's control threaten the women most precious to him in the past and the present. And only in a daring act of sacrifice will he know which woman will become the next Mrs. Blackthorne.

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