Barbara Bretton

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  • Bibliography:
    62 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1983
  • Latest Book:
    June 2018
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About the Author

Barbara Fuller was born on 25th June 1950 in New York City, New York, USA, daughter of Viola (McNaught) and Melvin Cassen Fuller. She studied at Queens College. On 8th September 1968, she married Roy Bretton. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, but loves to spend as much time as possible in Maine with her husband, walking the rocky beaches and dreaming up plots for upcoming books.

USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than 40 books, she currently has over ten million copies in print around the world. Her works have been translated into twelve languages in over twenty countries. She has been featured in articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Romantic Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Herald News, Home News, Somerset Gazette,among others, and has been interviewed by Independent Network News Television, appeared on the Susan Stamberg Show on NPR, and been featured in an interview with Charles Osgood of WCBS, among others. Her awards include both Reviewer's Choice and Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times; Gold and Silver certificates from Affaire de Coeur; the RWA Region 1 Golden Leaf; and several sales awards from Bookrak. Ms. Bretton was included in a recent edition of Contemporary Authors.

Full Series List in Order

Billionaire Lovers

1 - Her Bad Boy Billionaire Lover (Nov-2012)
2 - The Princess and the Billionaire (Feb-2014)

Classic Romance

1 - Shooting Star (Nov-1986)
2 - Promises in the Night (Aug-1986)
3 - Second Harmony (Aug-1987)
4 - The Edge of Forever (Feb-1986)
5 - Mother Knows Best // Sail Away (Aug-1989)

Crosse Harbor Time Travel

1 - Somewhere in Time (Jul-1992)
2 - Tomorrow and Always (Nov-1994)
3 - Destiny's Child (Sep-1995)

Home Front

1 - Sentimental Journey (Nov-1990)
2 - Stranger in Paradise (Dec-1990)
3 - Where or When (Nov-2015)

Idle Point, Maine

1 - At Last (Nov-2000)
2 - Someone Like You (Jul-2005)

Jersey Strong

1 - The Day We Met (Dec-1999)
2 - Once Around (Aug-1998)
3 - Just Like Heaven (Mar-2007)
4 - Just Desserts (Mar-2008)
5 - Sleeping Alone (Apr-1997)
6 - Maybe This Time (May-1995)

Paradise Point NJ

1 - Shore Lights (Jun-2003)
2 - Chances Are (Sep-2004)

PAX

1 - Playing for Time (Apr-1987)
2 - Honeymoon Hotel (Jun-1988)
3 - A Fine Madness (Dec-1988)
4 - All We Know of Heaven (Aug-1990)
5 - The Bride Came C.O.D. (Oct-1993)

Related Books

1 - Operation: Husband (May-1995)
2 - Operation: Baby (Aug-1997)

Rocky Hill

1 - Mrs. Scrooge (Dec-1989)
2 - Bundle of Joy (Jun-1991)
3 - 3,2,1...Baby! (Jan-1998)
5 - Annie's Gift (Nov-2017)

Shelter Rock Cove

1 - A Soft Place to Fall (Nov-2001)
3 - Girls of Summer (Nov-2003)

Sugar Maple Chronicles

1 - Casting Spells (Nov-2008)
2 - Laced with Magic (Aug-2009)
3 - Spun by Sorcery (Nov-2010)
3.5 - Charmed (Nov-2011)
4 - Spells & Stitches (Dec-2011)
5 - Enchanted: The Wedding Story (Feb-2018)
6 - Entangled: The Homecoming (Jun-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

Calendar of Romance

Daddy's Girl (Jun-1992)

Century of Romance

6 - Sentimental Journey (Nov-1990)
7 - Stranger in Paradise (Dec-1990)

Christmas is for Kids

Mrs. Scrooge (Dec-1989)

Gull Cottage

Mother Knows Best // Sail Away (Aug-1989)

More Than Men

The Invisible Groom (Oct-1994)

Book List in Order: 62 titles

  • Love Changes

    Harlequin American Romance - 3
    Harlequin Love Affair - 7

    When first love failed her, it took someone special to prove love changes... It took Stacey Andersen five years to put the pieces of her life back together after her fiance walked out. As a successful businesswoman with part ownership in a small c...

  • The Sweetest of Debts

    Harlequin American Romance - 49
    Harlequin Love Affair - 40

    Accepting his love, could she repay the sweetest of debts? Lainie Randall was shocked by Rita's engagement. Not that Ethan Ward wasn't a nice man, but surely her aunt knew that marriage only hurt people -- hadn't Lainie spent a year in...

  • No Safe Place

    Harlequin American Romance - 91
    Harlequin Love Affair - 72

    Fear has only one face -- courage comes in many forms For too long, Stefanie Colt had skated on thin ice. Unable to walk the streets of New York without casting nervous glances over her shoulder, unable to contemplate her responsibilities at Tele-...

  • Starfire

    Harlequin Intrigue - 18

    Sara would have traded her fortune for some privacy... Sara Chance was a jet-setter. As the wealthy widow of the beloved Maxwell Chance, she led a glamorous, opulent life. Yet Sara was miserable. All the money in the world couldn't make up for her...

  • The Edge of Forever

    Classic Romance - 4
    Harlequin American Romance - 138
    Harlequin Love Affair - 115

    Success didn't have the power to destroy Or did it? Meg Lindstrom had always been afraid to find out. After her sister's heroic death, Meg had given up her career as a photographer and opened up a limousine service, but a camera was never very far...

  • Promises in the Night

    Classic Romance - 2
    Harlequin American Romance - 161
    Silhouette Sensation - 307

    Love in the eighties -- was it possible? Larkin Walker had always thought that the challenge lay in finding it. Her many tasks as director of The Learning Center on Long Island had always given her little time to eat, let alone socialize. Then Dr....

  • Shooting Star

    Classic Romance - 1
    Harlequin American Romance - 175
    Harlequin Love Affair - 153

    "Be daring," Katie's sister said So Katie Powers, staid Bostonian in the middle of an otherwise sensible vacation in Japan, followed the advice ... and was trapped with Tom Sagan in a trail that dangled high over a bottomless ravine, was stranded ...

  • Playing for Time

    PAX - 1
    Harlequin American Romance - 193
    Harlequin Love Affair - 167
    Men at Work (reissues) - 46

    Life was getting interesting Strange comings and goings, odd disappearances--Joanna Stratton's Manhattan apartment building sizzled with intrigue. At the heart of it was Ryder O'Neal, who was supposedly incapacitated by a broken leg but who got ar...

  • Second Harmony

    Classic Romance - 3
    Harlequin American Romance - 211
    Silhouette Sensation - 1

    Hurricane Iris and Mike McKay arrived at the same time It was anyone's guess which posed the greater threat. Sandy Patterson's home was already battered by Hurricane Henry, which had attacked Eaton's Harbor, Long Island, the previous day. And whil...



  • Nobody's Baby

    Harlequin American Romance - 230
    Men Made In America (reissues) - 28
    Men Made in America 2 (reissues) - 28
    Silhouette Sensation - 13

    TONY GRAHAM WAS ALL WRONG FOR THE JOB As they traveled the blue highways of Nevada, rolling into desert towns too small to appear on any map, Tony challenged Jill Wiley's authority, piqued her curiosity and made her uncomfortably aware of her own...

  • Honeymoon Hotel

    PAX - 2
    Harlequin American Romance - 251

    Fantasy was John's strong suit Applied to business, it turned his deliciously indulgent Love Cottages--complete with waterbeds and heart-shaped bathtubs--into the hottest honeymoon hotel in the Poconos. Applied to matters of the heart, it broke th...

  • A Fine Madness

    PAX - 3
    Harlequin American Romance - 274

    There was trouble in paradise Dialectician Kelly Madison hadn't seen anything like it. The servants eavesdropped. The chauffeur opened Max's mail. And Brazilian billionaire Maximilian Steel's Florida island was so secure that even Max himself coul...

  • Fire's Lady

    INTRIGUED BY FAME, CONSUMED BY DESIRE Even as her carriage rolled past the leafy lawns of East Hampton, beautiful Alexandra Glenn pined for the golden meadows of her Provence home. Young and sheltered, she had been sent to America to help restore ...

  • Midnight Lover

    IN A ROUGH NEVADA BOOMTOWN, JESSE REARDON CALLED EVERY SHOT -- UNTIL BEAUTIFUL CAROLINE BENNETT STEPPED OFF THE STAGECOACH! Arriving like an exquisite mirage in a cloud of western dust, Caroline Bennett laid claim to her dead father's only leg...

  • Mother Knows Best // Sail Away

    Classic Romance - 5
    Close To Home (reissues) - 3
    Family (reissues) - 3
    Gull Cottage
    Harlequin American Romance - 305

    DIANA'S LIFE WAS NEATLY PLANNED Author of the "Mother Knows Best" helpful-hints column, Diana Travis had a master plan: finish her book, lose ten pounds and on Labor Day begin hunting for Mr. Right. But Gull Cottage and twin toddler nieces were...

  • Mrs. Scrooge

    Rocky Hill - 1
    Christmas is for Kids
    Harlequin American Romance - 322
    Silhouette Sensation - 109

    ALL PATTY WANTED WAS A FATHER OF HER OWN Normally, chemistry didn't present a challenge to ten-year-old genius Patty. But man-woman chemistry was a different thing, and it had Patty stumped. Patty thought she only had to find the perfect fa...

  • All We Know of Heaven

    PAX - 4
    Harlequin American Romance - 355

    THEIR FIRST MEETING WAS AT DEATH'S DOOR The bride who smiled at him from the white Rolls-Royce had the innocent face of an angel. Jack Flanagan stared, transfixed. In the next moment, the car burst into angry red flames. Jack pulled her from th...

  • Sentimental Journey

    Home Front - 1
    Century of Romance - 6
    Harlequin American Romance - 365

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE 1890s--1990s At train depots everywhere women say "I'll Be Seeing You" to their husbands and lovers. Off to join the Allied cause are Catherine Wilson's father and fiance. To Catherine, Johnny Danza is yet another...

  • Stranger in Paradise

    Home Front - 2
    Century of Romance - 7
    Harlequin American Romance - 369

    They met amongst the pomp and pageantry of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. They courted on fog-shrouded streets and in intimate pubs. And after only one day, brash American Mac Weaver had won the heart of Englishwoman Jane Townsend. He promised her ...



  • Bundle of Joy

    Rocky Hill - 2
    Harlequin American Romance - 393
    Here Come the Grooms (reissues) - 14
    Silhouette Sensation - 169

    AT SIX O'CLOCK. . . the door slammed shut, trapping boutique owner Caroline Bradley and short-order cook Charlie Donohue in a fur vault. At seven . . . their relationship sank to an all-time low, as Caroline blamed Charlie, and Charlie trie...

  • I Do, I Do

    in To Have and to Hold 1992

    For Sunny Talbot and Robert Holland it was love at first sight -- for the second time. Years after their hasty elopement and divorce, they were about to marry each other again. And this time they wanted the most elaborate wedding Bucks County had eve...

  • Daddy's Girl

    Born In The USA (reissues) - 11
    Calendar of Romance
    Harlequin American Romance - 441
    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 997

    ONE MAN AND A BABY Hunter Phillips never thought he'd fall in love, but when he saw her honey blond hair, sparkling blue eyes and adoring smile, his heart melted. Only problem was, she was eight months old. The niece he'd inherited certainly c...

  • Somewhere in Time

    Crosse Harbor Time Travel - 1

    She wanted a love that would last an eternity... ... And she was willing to travel across the centuries to find it. Emilie Crosse dreamed of a man who could inflame her senses and touch her soul. A man of commitment and passion. Through the m...

  • The Reluctant Bride

    Dangerous to Love USA (reissues) - 8
    Harlequin Historical - 135
    Mills & Boon Historical - 415
    Safe Haven (reissues) - 9

    By the Sea, By the Sea The Pemberton Arms would have long since crumbled but for the cockeyed optimism of Molly Hughes. She dreamed of a chance to restore the old seaside hotel. the only home she'd ever known. That chance was suddenly within ...

  • Renegade Lover

    Babies & Bachelors USA (reissues) - 9
    Harlequin American Romance - 493
    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 1021

    Down-Under Desire He'd been the renegade lover of her wildest fantasies, the roguish hero of her deepest dreams. But when Megan McLean left her Australian hunk of a husband, she vowed two things: never to have regrets and never to tell him ab...

  • The Bride Came C.O.D.

    PAX - 5
    American Heroes: Against All Odds - 2
    Harlequin American Romance - 505

    WIFE WANTED NO ROMANCE NECESSARY APPLY BOX 6757 NOWHERE ALASKA Kiel Brown could no longer allow the meddling townsfolk of Nowhere, Alaska, to try to find him a wife. He'd already seen more than his share of casserole-carrying bachelorettes. But ...

  • One and Only

    Isabelle was the daughter of a European prince, fiery and free-spirited, the forgotten princess lost in her older sister's shadow. In a shattering power play, she is forced to leave the life she's always known -- and must make it on her ow...

  • The Marrying Man

    in Love and Laughter

    With five kids and a career, Catherine Zaslow's home life could be labeled "Norman Rockwell Meets The Far Side" -- until sexy efficiency expert Riley McKendrick enters ...and it's turned into total chaos!...

  • The Invisible Groom

    Harlequin American Romance - 554
    More Than Men

    Jilted! Jenna Grey had been left at the altar not once, but three times. Now, at the debut of her Vegas wedding chapel, Jenna was hearing voices -- marriage proposals, to be exact. But there was no groom in sight! Cursed! Two years ago Chas...



  • Tomorrow and Always

    Crosse Harbor Time Travel - 2

    Unlikely lovers from very different worlds... Andrew McVie is a man on the run. Running from duty and heartache...running toward the freedom and passion...running two hundred years in time, right into the life of Shannon Whitney. Shannon Whitne...

  • Maybe This Time

    Jersey Strong - 6

    A moving story about two people struggling to overcome their bitter past together -- and opening themselves to a second chance at love... Intelligent and outgoing, Christine Cannon was television's hottest new celebrity. Soon she would anchor ...

  • Operation: Husband

    Related Books - 1
    Harlequin American Romance - 581

    A woman with a purpose... Martina Wilde had once known passion. For one night ten years ago in the impulsive arms of dangerous Trask Benedict. But their white-hot passion turned to ash when he disappeared. That's why when forced by her father to m...

  • Destiny's Child

    Crosse Harbor Time Travel - 3

    Dakota Wylie didn't claim to understand men...But she did know that Patrick Devane was stubborn and angry and that he refused to let anyone, including his young daughter, get close. Dakota also knew she had no choice but to accept his reluctant h...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN-DEEP. BUT IT HIDES A MULTITUDE OF SINS... LILI SPAULDING is chic and glamorous -- a steel magnolia who rules a multi-million dollar cosmetics empire. She is her own most perfect creation, born of a scandalous past and shatter...

  • Home for the Holidays // The Year the Cat Saved Christmas

    in The Christmas Cat

    College sweethearts almost break up on Christmas Eve, but their wise old cat gets in the way......

  • Sleeping Alone

    Jersey Strong - 5

    After years of lies, loneliness, and betrayal, she's finally left her wealthy husband in London -- and moved into her own house in the run-down resort town of Sea Gate, New Jersey, the place of her childhood dreams, and now, her grown-up hopes. ...

  • Operation: Baby

    Related Books - 2
    Harlequin American Romance - 689
    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 1231

    He was tall, dark...and naked! Samantha Wilde had never seen a man who could make her swoon--until she saw her pilot out of uniform. One look at the guy and she didn't see the storm clouds brewing; by then they'd crash-landed into a romantic, lush...

  • 3,2,1...Baby!

    in New Year's Resolution: Family
    Rocky Hill - 3

    Tony and Kate were the biggest mismatched in town and everybody knew it. Everyone, that is, except their families. So how did Kate end up pregnant with Tony's baby, but the dad was nowhere to be found? Kate was determined to go it alone, till the Mar...

  • Once Around

    Jersey Strong - 2

    From the award-winning author of Maybe This Time, One and Only, and Sleeping Alone -- an unforgettable story of commitment, courage, loss and love... Molly Chamberlain's husband had abandoned her even as she carried his baby. He'd taken away the lif...



  • The Day We Met

    Jersey Strong - 1

    Maggy O'Brien's ex-husband is getting remarried. Her daughter has dyed her hair purple. And for her thirty-fifth birthday, her sisters have arranged a weekend getaway -- complete with makeover and limo. It's all Maggy can do to hold on to...

  • At Last

    Idle Point, Maine - 1

    From the moment they met as children, there was something special between Noah Chase and Gracie Taylor, something that grew and matured right along with them. Despite Gracie's troubled family -- and Noah's cold, distant one -- they managed to...

  • A Soft Place to Fall

    Shelter Rock Cove - 1

    Once upon a time, Annie Galloway was a woman with boundless hopes -- and big, glorious dreams. There were so many good days, when everything she wanted seemed just a heartbeat away -- a career in art, a peaceful marriage, a house full of children. Bu...

  • Shore Lights

    Paradise Point NJ - 1

    Maddy Bainbridge knew that the things that drove her crazy about her mother when she was seventeen would drive her crazier now that she is thirty-two, but Rose's invitation to re home to the Jersey Shore came at a time when Maddy had few choices....

  • Girls of Summer

    Shelter Rock Cove - 3

    If home is where the heart is, then Ellen Markowitz might as well set up house in the delivery room of Shelter Rock Cove General. She loves being an OB-GYN--and she's fallen hard for the charming coastal village where she's lived for the last three y...

  • Chances Are

    Paradise Point NJ - 2

    USA Today bestselling author Barbara Bretton returns to the scenic Jersey Shore for what should be the happiest day of Maddy Bainbridge's life... There's a wedding in the works at Paradise Point, and Maddy Bainbridge is finding the role of soon-to...

  • Someone Like You

    Idle Point, Maine - 2

    "We need you. Come home" . . . When Joely Doyle was old enough she packed her bags, left home, and set out to create her own identity -- away from the faded photographs of the father she never knew, and the faded dreams of her mother Mimi...

  • Ever After

    in And The Envelope, Please...

    Who is the mystery woman on the arm of megastar Jack Wyatt? The tabloids are wild and so is Jack, desperate to find his Cinderella blind date -- a single mother of two turned star of her own romantic adventure....

  • Just Like Heaven

    Jersey Strong - 3

    It all started with a red lace thong. Normally Kate is a twin set and pearls kind of girl who wouldn't be caught dead in such a thing. But that's exactly what happens when sudden chest pains leave her lying in a parking lot with her skirt hik...

  • We'll Always Have Paris

    in A Wedding In Paris

    After twenty-eight years of marriage, Kate and Ryan Donovan called it quits. Two years later at their daughter's wedding, they're seeing each other in a whole new light -- the City of Light, where romance beckons around every corner.......



  • Just Desserts

    Jersey Strong - 4

    Once upon a time, Hayley believed that a good woman (her) could turn a bad boy (her ex) into a knight in shining armor (pure fantasy). Ten years of marriage to Michael Goldstein finally drummed the truth into her head. People don't change with time -...

  • Casting Spells

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 1

    USA Today bestselling author Barbara Bretton has always enchanted readers. But this time, she really casts a spell in a new series where magic and murder weave their way into the lives of the citizens of New England's most unusual town -- and its mos...

  • Laced with Magic

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 2

    Chloe, who's still getting a handle on her powers, is about to discover that love may not conquer all, but a nasty Fae certainly can... Ever have the feeling that the fates finally got it right? That's how I felt when•I met Luke MacKenzie. And n...

  • Spun by Sorcery

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 3

    Barbara Bretton's series starring knitting shop owner and sorcerer's daughter Chloe Hobbs live in small Sugar Maple. There's just one problem: the Vermont town has fallen off the map -- and Chloe must flex her magick skills to find it ... I don't kn...

  • Charmed

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 3.5

    Can you keep a secret? Growing up in Sugar Maple, Vermont, knit shop owner and sorceress-in-training Chloe Hobbs learned to keep a secret before she learned to tie her shoes. When your town is home to werewolves, vampires, trolls, sprites, and eve...

  • Spells & Stitches

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 4

    In the latest novel from the USA Today bestselling author, raising a baby is hard, but raising one with magical powers is even harder... Sugar Maple, Vermont, knitting store owner Chloe Hobbs couldn't be happier about her pregnancy. But with the a...

  • I Do, I Do . . . Again

    **A 25,000 word novella from USA Today bestselling author Barbara BrettonSunny Talbot and Robert Holland were high school sweethearts whose teenage marriage quickly fell apart in the face of real life.When a chance meeting brings them together again...

  • Her Bad Boy Billionaire Lover

    Billionaire Lovers - 1

    He was the renegade lover of her deepest fantasies

    Billionaire Lovers - Book 1

    Megan McLean had never seen a man like Jake Lockwood before. Everything about the tall, dark Aussie stranger screamed danger from his chestnut hair stre...

  • The Princess and the Billionaire

    Billionaire Lovers - 2

    A match made in heaven? It's only a matter of time . . . A runaway princess looking to start a new life in New York City A golden boy billionaire who likes his life just the way it is She grew up in a castle high in the French Alps He was...

  • Where or When

    Home Front - 3

    She was everything he'd ever wanted . . .

    He was everything she'd dreamed of.

    It is 1941 and Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu is as close to paradise as you were likely to get. Golden sunshine, sweet ocean breezes, seclud...

  • Annie's Gift

    Rocky Hill - 5

    A heartwarming new Rocky Hill Holiday novella from bestselling author Barbara BrettonEveryone knows Christmas is a time for family but not for Harry Barnes. If he had his way, he would close his eyes and not open them again until January second when ...

  • Enchanted: The Wedding Story

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 5

    Welcome to Sugar Maple . . . Sugar Maple may look like your postcard-perfect Vermont town but that’s where the similarity ends. Our librarian is a beautiful Norwegian troll. The funeral parlor is run by a family of vampires. The Sugar Maple Inn is ...

  • Entangled: The Homecoming

    Sugar Maple Chronicles - 6

    Welcome back to Sugar MapleWhen pregnant army wife Mallory and her young daughter go missing in a sudden snowstorm after a knitting workshop, Sticks & Strings owner and sorceress-in-training Chloe Hobbs springs into action. If Chloe and her human cou...

Award-Winning Books by Barbara Bretton

Bundle of Joy
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin American
The Edge of Forever
1986 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin American
Somewhere in Time
1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Time-Travel


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Barbara Bretton has published 62 books.

Barbara Bretton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Entangled: The Homecoming, was published in June 2018.

The first book by Barbara Bretton, Love Changes, was published in April 1983.

Yes. Barbara Bretton has 12 series.
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