Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-21129-7
Johnston's ( Sweetwater Seduction ) 19th-century romance is light on originality and heavy on sentimentality. Widower Seth Kendrick, a doctor in rural Montana, needs a wife to civilize his rambunctious, tomboy daughter Patricia (known as Patch), so...
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Joan Johnston. Dell, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7868-6
Johnston’s tender 10th Bitter Creek contemporary (after Sinful) begins with a prodigal son returning to his Wyoming roots. Matt Grayhawk, daughter Pippa, and son Nathan travel from Australia to his family’s ranch in Wyoming, which he left 20 years...
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Joan Johnston. Dell, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7866-2
Romance steams up Jackson Hole, Wyo., in this strong contemporary trilogy opener. When Connor Flynn returns after his wife, Molly, dies in a car accident, Eve Grayhawk is reminded of her secret love for him. Unfortunately, their families are mortal...
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Joan Johnston. Dell, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-52748-6
In Johnston’s third Mail-Order Bride historical (after Wyoming Bride), which ties in to her long-running Bitter Creek series, an orphan gets an unexpected opportunity. Lucy Templeton, a mail-order bride, falls over a cliff and dies on the way to...
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Joan Johnston. Dell, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-52746-2
Johnston follows Texas Bride with a romance set in the harsh territory of post–Civil War Wyoming. Shortly after 17-year-old Hannah McMurtry's new husband dies from cholera, she and her sisters are attacked by Sioux warriors who injure Hannah's twin,
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Joan Johnston. Dell, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-52744-8
Johnston’s first Unexpected Bride historical returns to Bitter Creek (last seen in 2009’s Shattered) and explores the dangers of the late 19th-century Wild West. Upon turning 18, Miranda Wentworth is forced to leave the Chicago orphanage where she...
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Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-22380-1
In the first book of her latest contemporary romance trilogy, the Sisters of the Lone Star, Johnston connects descendents of the British Blackthorne family (of her earlier Captive Hearts series) with the present-day Texan Creed family. The two clans
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Joan Johnston, Author Avon Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-78240-6
Johnston exhibits her versatility with a venture into mainstream, contemporary romance genre. The quick-paced love story/ murder mystery evolves when New York City judge, Delia Carson, is notified by her sister that her mother, whom she hasn't seen...
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Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-440-22200-2
Regency and historical romance devotees will find Johnston's (The Inheritance) latest lively and well-written, and her characters perfectly enchanting. Lady Charlotte Edgerton, Charlie to her friends, is an American fish who finds herself in stuffy...
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Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-21759-6
Set in 19th-century England and America, Johnston's latest release after Outlaw's Bride is like thin soup: all the ingredients are there, but it just isn't satisfying. Liberally dosed with romantic cliches, the watery plot revolves around Texas...
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Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-21278-2
Patricia ``Patch'' Kendrick arrives in Oak County, Tex., from Fort Benton, Mont., to claim Ethan Hawk, a man who jokingly promised to marry her eight years earlier when he was a 25-year-old running from the law and she was the precocious 12-year-old
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Joan Johnston, Author . Dell $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-23472-2
Although the Blackthornes and the Creeds have been enemies for countless generations, love has found a way to transcend their feuding in the last two entries in Johnston's Bitter Creek series (The Cowboy; The Texan). This turbulent third...
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Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-21762-6
With her newest offering, veteran historical romance author Johnston (The Inheritance) tells two linked but separate love stories--one of Lady Verity Talbot, countess of Rushland, and the other of Lady Verity's illegitimate son, Rand. As a young...
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Joan Johnston, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-20561-6
Johnston's ( Comanche Woman ) version of an Old West romance between a prissy schoolmarm and a jaded gunslinger is well paced and seldom takes itself seriously, the result being a palatable if unoriginal tale. It's 1880 in the Wyoming Territory, and
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Joan Johnston, Author . Pocket $25 (340p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5438-4
Ten years after Merle Raye Finkel, a terrified runaway girl, is wrongfully convicted of killing her abusive father in bestseller Johnston's exciting seventh Bittercreek romantic thriller (after The Next Mrs. Blackthorne
), Merle's paroled from a...
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Joan Johnston, Author . Pocket $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5440-7
At the start of Johnston's swift-moving Bitter Creek romance (The Price
, etc.), 17-year-old Kate Grayhawk, the out-of-wedlock daughter of Libby Grayhawk and Clay Blackthorne, skips out of her Virginia boarding school and heads for Jackson Hole,
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Joan Johnston, Author . Atria $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5432-2
Romance veteran Johnston makes her hardcover debut with another Bitter Creek novel (The Loner, etc.), in which Houston lawyer Luke Creed tracks down unethical businessmen in between joy rides on his Harley and attempts to woo his old high school...
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Joan Johnston, Author . Dell $7.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-23680-1
A prequel to Johnston's previous The Cowboy
and The Texan, this simply written saga is set in 1843, when white settlers and Comanches battled bitterly for possession of Texas. Although born to a white father, Long Quiet embraces the ways of his
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Joan Johnston. Dell, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-17774-3
Johnston’s gloriously dramatic 12th Bitter Creek novel, the fourth installment in her Mail Order Bride subseries (after Montana Bride), whisks readers across the Atlantic. In the late 19th century, Englishman Marcus Wharton, the Duke of Blackthorne,
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