Jo Goodman Books In Order

McClellan Family Books In Publication Order

  1. Crystal Passion (1985)
  2. Seaswept Abandon (1986)
  3. Tempting Torment (1989)
  4. Tidewater Promise (1991)

Passion’s Bride Books In Publication Order

  1. Velvet Night (1987)

Marshall Brothers Books In Publication Order

  1. Midnight Princess / Her Defiant Heart (1989)
  2. Passion’s Sweet Revenge / His Heart’s Revenge (1990)

Dennehy Sisters Books In Publication Order

  1. Wild Sweet Ecstasy / Only My Love (1992)
  2. Rogue’s Mistress / My Heart’s Desire (1993)
  3. Forever in My Heart (1994)
  4. Always In My Dreams (1995)
  5. Only In My Arms (1997)

Thorne Brothers Books In Publication Order

  1. My Steadfast Heart (1997)
  2. My Reckless Heart (1998)
  3. With All My Heart (1999)

Hamilton Family Books In Publication Order

  1. More Than You Know (2000)
  2. More Than You Wished (2001)

Compass Club Books In Publication Order

  1. Let Me Be The One (2002)
  2. Everything I Ever Wanted (2003)
  3. All I Ever Needed (2003)
  4. Beyond a Wicked Kiss (2004)

Grantham Books In Publication Order

  1. A Season to Be Sinful (2005)
  2. One Forbidden Evening (2006)
  3. If His Kiss Is Wicked (2007)

Reidsville Books In Publication Order

  1. Never Love A Lawman (2009)
  2. Marry Me (2010)

Bitter Springs Books In Publication Order

  1. The Last Renegade (2012)
  2. True to the Law (2013)
  3. In Want of a Wife (2014)

Cowboys of Colorado Books In Publication Order

  1. A Touch of Frost (2017)
  2. A Touch of Flame (2018)
  3. A Touch of Forever (2019)

McKenna Brothers Books In Publication Order

  1. This Gun for Hire (2015)
  2. The Devil You Know (2016)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Captain’s Lady (1984)
  2. Violet Fire (1987)
  3. Scarlet Lies (1988)
  4. Sweet Fire (1991)
  5. The Price Of Desire (2008)
  6. Kissing Comfort (2011)
  7. A Place Called Home (2011)
  8. Stages of the Heart (2020)
  9. Ramsey Rules (2020)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Christmas Rendezvous (1991)

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Thorne Brothers Book Covers

Hamilton Family Book Covers

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Jo Goodman Books Overview

Tempting Torment

Jo Goodman’s best selling novels of romance and adventure unite brave, beautiful women with their charismatic soul mates. Tempting Torment tells the breathtaking story of Jessa Winter and Noah McClellan. In 1787, desperate to leave England, Jessa marries the mortally wounded Noah expecting to become his widow and escape to America. But she hasn’tcounted on his will to survivenor his desire to make her his wife in body as well as name.

Wild Sweet Ecstasy / Only My Love

Recognizing Mary Michael Dennehy as the big city reporter he met once, Ethan Stone one of a gang of train robbers that has taken over Mary’s train to Colorado kidnaps her before his comrades discover her identity.

Rogue’s Mistress / My Heart’s Desire

When feisty Rennie Dennehy travels to the Colorado wilderness to locate her father, she enlists the aid of roguish bounty hunter Jarret Sullivan, who soon captures her heart with his passionate kisses. By the author of Sweet Fire.

Only In My Arms

Torn between devotion and a secret yearning for adventure and fulfilment, Mary Frances Dennehy makes her choice. Shocking her family, she leaves the convent and her cloistered existence behind and sets out in search of a new life. But for a woman along, the west can be a hostile and treacherous place. And no one is more dangerous and irresistible than Ryder McKay. Faithful to the Apaches who raised him, now sentenced to hang for a crime he didn’t commit, Ryder is desperate enough to seize one last chance of freedom. Taking Mary Dennehy hostage, the army scout plots his daring escape into the mountains only to find himself with a woman he never expected, one who makes him fell fully alive and hungry for more. Now, with danger closing in, a breathtaking bid for freedom becomes a journey into forbidden passion that will test two lovers’ faith and challenge their hearts…

My Steadfast Heart

Traveling to England to avenge his two lost brothers, ruthless ship captain Colin Thorne confronts penniless aristocrat Mercedes Leydon, whose dissolute uncle has lost the family estate to Thorne in exchange for his gambling debts.

My Reckless Heart

From the award winning author of ‘My Steadfast Heart’ comes the irresistible second novel in Jo Goodman’s powerful trilogy about three brothers, separated by fate, who dare to reclaim their lost legacy. Full page, full color ad in ‘Romantic Times’. .

With All My Heart

Grey can’t remember his past. But in the new West, a man’s past doesn’t matter; what he makes of himself does. And in the gold rush city of San Francisco, Grey is on his way to building his empire as the owner of a prosperous gaming house and hotel. When he encounters Berkeley, the spellbinding psychic whose eyes penetrate his soul, he knows he’s just struck gold. But Grey is about to learn, everything has a price including love.

More Than You Wished

Historical Romance, Civil War

Everything I Ever Wanted

The toast of Drury Lane, actress India Parr has claimed the attention of London’s most impressive gen tlemen including the Prince Regent himself with her talent and poise. Though her heart hasn’t been won, she is intrigued by the devilishly handsome Earl of Southerton yet equally determined to keep him from the dark, deadly secret that shadows her private life.

Beyond a Wicked Kiss

Evan Marchman has just inherited a title, lands, and a fortune but is miserable as the new Duke of Westphal, preferring the intrigue and adventures of the Compass Club to the responsibilities of an estate. More promisingly, he has also gained a ward a beautiful woman who asks for his aid in unravelling a mystery that will draw them both into a world of hidden pleasures. Headmistress of a ladies academy, Ria Ashby desperately needs West’s help to find a student who has disappeared without a trace. Yet she cannot help but be distracted by the promise of passion behind the duke’s green eyes and roguish grin. Soon their search for the missing girl leads them to a secret society comprised of the school’s board of governors an inner sanctum where sensuality rules and power seduces.

A Season to Be Sinful

Wyatt Grantham, Viscount Sheridan, is stunned to find three young boys at his door, demanding he right the wrongs of an incident that occurred earlier that evening when he thwarted a determined thief. When he discovers his wily pickpocket is a woman, now gravely injured, he takes his flame haired attacker under his wing. Clearly, Sheridan’s new ‘guest’ is lady of quality. So how did she become a common street thief? He finds himself irresistibly drawn the too clever, cheeky Lily, and determined to unlock her mysteries…
The five years since she left the care of the French convent have been a nightmare for Lily. Her secrets are dangerous as is the powerful man determined to find her. The handsome Viscount is clearly a gentleman with secrets of his own, but staying with him could mean the difference between life and death for Lily. With each passing day, her handsome host turns Lily’s convalescence into an increasingly sensual escape. Now her greatest challenge may be imagining anything less than a future in his arms…

One Forbidden Evening

As a masked ball reaches its fever pitch, Cybelline Caldwell surrenders to the embrace of a midnight lover, a stranger who seals her fate. By morning, the wanton seductress has been replaced by a determinedly sensible woman preparing to leave London…
and its memories. Yet temptation follows. For Christopher Hollins, Earl of Ferrin, the notorious rake she so brazenly challenged, vows to show her that one night was not enough. It took some clever detective work, but Ferrin uncovered the identity of his mystery lover, surprised and intrigued to come face to face with Cybelline. Soon he discovers she is a woman of mystery and a woman in danger, stalked by a ruthless enemy. Unable to erase the searing memory of Cybelline in his arms, Ferrin knows he must discover the secrets that shadow her days…
for only then can he claim all of her nights.

If His Kiss Is Wicked

Shy by nature, Emma Hathaway usually leaves the drama to her rebellious cousin, Marisol. But when Emma agrees to meet with her cousin’s secret lover to end the affair, she is pulled into a dangerous game. Now Emma is convinced her involvement in the scandal has put her life in jeopardy. The trouble is none of Emma’s confidantes believe anyone is trying to harm her. As whispers of madness begin, Emma turns to the only person who might be able to help…
The very handsome, barely respectable Restell Gardner has gained a reputation for helping people out of compromising positions. Never one to turn away a lady in need, Restell agrees to help solve the intrigue. Sensing there is more to the green eyed beauty than meets the eye, Restell feels himself falling for Emma. But he resists succumbing to his passion…
at least until he learns the truth about the danger that is haunting her. For if he gives in to temptation too soon, he could lose Emma forever…

Never Love A Lawman

Rachel Bailey may seem like just a beautiful newcomer to most of Reidsville, Colorado, but Sheriff Wyatt Cooper knows she’s much more. Through a twist of fate, Rachel is the inheritor of a very valuable commodity: control of the railway that’s keeps the isolated mining town connected to the world. That is, she will be, if she agrees to the surprising stipulation in her benefactor’s will that she marry Wyatt. Rachel has no choice: refusing the marriage could put all of Reidsville in the hands of an outsider and not just any outsider, but the cruel tyrant she has come here to escape. Yet living with Wyatt will be her greatest challenge. For he has a tempting way about him that makes Rachel forget theirs is a marriage in name only until her frightening past shows up to remind them exactly how much they have at stake…

Marry Me

Rhyne Abbot is fierce, brave, and used to a life of isolation on her father’s spread on the outskirts of Reidsville, Colorado. But when, overcome with sickness, she collapses, she knows she must return to town if she is to have any hope of recovery. Only there is no place for her but the new doctor’s home, and he wants more than just to heal Rhyne. He wants her hand in marriage. Doctor Cole Monroe’s hands are already more than full with his orphaned little sister to look after, and yet somehow he can’t resist the magnetic pull of Rhyne’s bewitching eyes or her tempting kiss. But convincing her to trust him won’t be easy. For Rhyne’s heart needs as much tender care as her ailing body. And the only cure is the thing she most fears: to let herself fall in love…

The Price Of Desire

Olivia Cole is devastated to learn that her ne’er do well brother has promised her to the operator of a London gaming hall as payment of his debts. Olivia accepts her fate even if it means that her reputation will suffer from living among rogues and gamblers. But when she meets the sexy and mysterious Griffin Wright Jones, the Viscount of Breckenridge, Olivia has more than just her good name to worry about for he rouses in her wanton thoughts she’s never dared entertain until now…
Griffin wears the scars of his life on his striking face. Although he wants Olivia like no other woman before, eh doesn’t force her to share his bed a difficult task considering how beautiful she is. But with each passing night, Griffin and Olivia’s resolve weakens until finally they take their greatest gamble on one night of reckless pleasure.

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