Bethany Campbell

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1985
  • Latest Book:
    August 2009
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About the Author

Sally McCluskey was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, as an only child. She attended college beginning as a chemistry major, after quickly switching her major to English. She obtainded a B.A. from Wayne State Teachers College, and an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas. She met her husband, Dan Borengasser, while both were graduate students at Northern Illinois University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in English.

Sally started to taught and in her spare time wrote, but after marriage, they move to an area where teaching jobs were scarce, and she turned to writing full time. She wrote poetry, articles, short stories, and contributed to textbooks, but finally decided to try a romance novel at the urging of her mom and aunt, both avid romance fans. To Sally’s amazement, Harlequin bought her story "After The Stars Fall" and published it in 1985 under the pseudonym Bethany Campbell. Since also wrote as Lisa Harris. She has has won three Romance Writers of America RITA Awards, three Romantic Times Reviewer Awards, a Maggie Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence.

Today, she lives with her husband in Northwest Arkansas. Her husband Dan Borengasser, vice-president of Ozark Film & Video Productions, also writes, and has had several short films and plays produced.

Full Series List in Order

Whitewater

1 - The Lost Moon Flower (Aug-1989)
2 - The Cloud Holders (Jul-1991)

Multi-Author Series List

9 Months Later

31 - The Baby Gift (Apr-2002)

Back to the Ranch

The Man Who Came for Christmas (Dec-1993)

Crystal Creek

Amarillo by Morning (May-1993)
The Thunder Rolls (Oct-1993)
Rhinestone Cowboy (May-1994)
Gentle on My Mind (Oct-1994)
Lone Star State of Mind (Feb-1995)
I'll Take Texas (Jul-2002)
A Little Town in Texas (May-2003)
Home to Texas (Jan-2004)
Wild Horses (Mar-2005)

Harlequin NASCAR

36 - Truth And Consequences (Mar-2008)
59 - One Track Mind (Aug-2009)

Secrets and Legends

3 - Truth And Consequences (Mar-2008)

Thoroughbred Legacy

12 - The Secret Heiress (Dec-2008)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • After the Stars Fall

    Harlequin Romance - 2726

    "Your father loved you," Zack told her gently "Near the end he was in terrible shape," he added. "He never got over losing you." Zack knelt beside her and took her in his arms. " `Beautiful blue-eyed Jay Jay, the pretti...

  • Only a Woman

    Harlequin Romance - 2779

    He ignored her, humiliated her -- what next? Reporter Scotty Morgan never dreamed her first sports assignment could be such a nightmare. Jed Quinn, the all-American basketball star turned coach refused to be interviewed by a woman. He'd com...

  • A Thousand Roses

    Harlequin Romance - 2803
    Mills & Boon Romance - 2812

    At Christmas anything was possible... "When the going gets tough -- get tougher!" That's what Perdita Nordstrand had learned growing up on the wrestling circuit with celebrities like Ravishing Ricky and Hugo the Horrible. So she wasn&#...

  • Sea Promises

    Harlequin Romance - 2815

    Ghosts of the past bound them together Charlotte Benteen had never expected to see Vince Gambit again. She'd been only a child when he'd fled their hometown on the rockbound coast of Maine. But she remembered he'd caused enough heartac...

  • Pros and Cons

    Harlequin Intrigue - 65
    Men Made In America (reissues) - 21
    Men Made in America 2 (reissues) - 21

    She couldn't let them get away with murder P. J. Fitzjames, Jr., had a score to settle: four elderly bachelors had swindled her out of four million dollars, and P.J. wanted it back. Enter Eli Holder, king of con men. He had a foolproof pla...

  • The Long Way Home

    Harlequin Romance - 2852
    Mills & Boon Romance - 3011

    She felt like a puppet on a string Dareen Sheffield's life had always been manipulated by others. Even the top fashion model's engagement had been arranged for "publicity." Well, Dare wanted no part of it anymore. So the ninetee...

  • Heartland

    Harlequin Romance - 2877

    She departed for Nebraska in true terror Toby Moranti had practically grown up in the safe little New Jersey studio where she worked as an illustrator for a cartoon syndicate. Although she dreamed of branching out, she'd never considered leavi...

  • Flirtation River

    Harlequin Romance - 2911

    Neither one was happy about the arrangement But Quint and Miranda had no say in the matter. Senator Mason insisted his "trouble-making" daughter remain under the protection of Quint Wilcox--until they discovered who'd been sending her ...

  • The Diamond Trap

    Harlequin Romance - 2949
    Mills & Boon Romance - 4375

    "Come home and marry Dennis." That's what her mother insisted after Dinah MacNeil announced she'd be postponing her wedding. But Dinah was going to Nashville to help one of her students get his start in the country-music business. ...



  • The Roses of Constant

    Harlequin Intrigue - 116

    Evil inhabited the town Some kind of madness had overtaken everyone but Valery Essex. Lifetime neighbors were lying under oath. Planting evidence in her backyard. Making midnight phone calls designed to terrorize her. Unless Valery got to the hear...

  • The Lost Moon Flower

    Whitewater - 1
    Harlequin Romance - 3000

    "Whitewater -- I want you." There. She'd uttered the words she'd sworn Aaron Whitewater would never have the satisfaction of hearing from her -- and she braced herself for a dose of his infuriating sense of humor. But once he re...

  • The Snow Garden

    Harlequin Romance - 3019

    She was filled with Christmas dread -- Why did Hedy's new home have to be on Holly Street -- where everyone "Made a big deal of Christmas" -- and right next door to irresponsible maniac extraordinaire, Ty Marek? "If there'...

  • The Heart of the Sun

    Harlequin Romance - 3045

    She'd seen the omen of change Kimberly was too wrapped up in heartache to give much thought to the significance of a ghost-white squirrel's appearance. But Australian folklorist Alec Shaughnessy's presence was another matter. She re...

  • Dancing Sky

    Harlequin Romance - 3062

    He was closing in on the town -- and her At first Mitzi Eden thought it couldn't be true. Adam MacLaren wouldn't be in Dancing Sky. And he certainly wouldn't be staying at the Pink Paradise motel -- her motel. But rumors were true. ...

  • The Ends of the Earth

    Harlequin Romance - 3079

    The tickets came with strings attached Jennifer Martinson knew precisely why her grandfather wanted her in Alaska. To drag poor Keenan back to California for a Martinson Brubecker marriage merger, the dream of two wily old powerbrokers. Oh, Jen...

  • Dead Opposites

    Harlequin Intrigue - 151

    Eerie sounds... that went bump in the night were part of Hawthorne Towers's history. When Ginnie Price heard rumors that the building was haunted, she decided it was time to move. But her decision was made too late. For when she arrived home one e...

  • Every Woman's Dream

    Harlequin Romance - 3109
    Mills & Boon Romance - 4442

    He was every woman's dream Like manna from heaven, Cal Buchanon's photograph landed on Tess Avery's desk. It would guarantee the success of the calendar project she'd been assigned. It would launch Tess in New York's advertisin...

  • Say It With Flowers

    in With This Ring

    ONE WEDDING--FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the mo...

  • The Cloud Holders

    Whitewater - 2
    Harlequin Romance - 3133

    "Whitewater -- I hate you!" And she hated this "fool ritual" that had sent her halfway around the world. But Piper Gordon had promised her grandmother that she'd return the centuries-old funeral necklace to Hawaii, as the ...



  • Every Kind of Heaven

    Harlequin Romance - 3163

    A Christmas honeymoon--without a husband Mollie was supposed to be celebrating the yuletide season in sultry New Orleans--on her honeymoon. The aspiring actress was in New Orleans, all right, but the Big Easy wasn't so hot. In fact, it was...

  • Spellbinder

    Harlequin Romance - 3187

    Settling her Uncle Jimmie's estate was heart-wrenching for Kelly, but spending time at his home on a beautiful lake in Arkansas meant she'd have the peace and quiet she needed to work on her next book. She hadn't counted on the presence o...

  • Sand Dollar

    Harlequin Romance - 3211

    Gabe Cantrell had a bad attitude Whitney Shane thought life couldn't get much worse. The yacht she'd been on had exploded, leaving her two colleagues injured, and the whole group stranded on a deserted island with little hope of rescue for...

  • Child's Play

    Harlequin Intrigue - 196
    Mills & Boon Intrigue - 7

    The dead would come back and get you . . . The residents of Black Bear Lake thought that evil could never touch such an idyllic spot. But they were wrong. Thornton Fuller, a young man with the mind of a child, was paralyzed with fear when he to...

  • Only Make-Believe

    Harlequin Romance - 3230

    The Bride was pretending. The Groom was, too. The Wedding was real--the second time! Nikki didn't really want to impersonate Caressa, one of the world's most famous women, in a fake "celebrity wedding." But she'd go throug...

  • Add a Little Spice

    Harlequin Romance - 3260

    She was a princess frozen by a spell At least, that was how Connor Munroe described Gina Calvino. Gina refused to believe that her hometown was dying. She refused to sell her family's secret combination of spaghetti sauce spices -- no matter h...

  • Amarillo by Morning

    Crystal Creek
    Crystal Creek (Numbered) - 3
    River Deep - 3

    SHOW TIME--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. EVERYBODY LOVES A COWBOY And Cal McKinney is one of the b...

  • The Lady and the Tomcat

    Harlequin Romance - 3277

    Max Dunne is a pirate... And he's stolen Lindsey's young son's cat! But that isn't quite how Max sees the situation. He claims he found the odd-looking kitten abandoned in Key West, and after investing a small fortune to make "...

  • The Thunder Rolls

    Crystal Creek
    Crystal Creek (Numbered) - 8
    River Deep - 8

    FOURTH OF JULY -- TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. FIREWORKS! Ken Slattery, foreman at the Double ...

  • The Man Who Came for Christmas

    Back to the Ranch
    Harlequin Romance - 3293
    Harlequin Romance Large Print - 3293

    SkyRim Ranch, in Bison County, Nebraska Abbie Hale--She's a rancher's daughter. She loves her family's ranch, loves the ranching life. But now that her grandfather's dead, her father's selling SkyRim, and this will be Abbie'...



  • Rhinestone Cowboy

    Crystal Creek
    Crystal Creek (Numbered) - 15
    River Deep Collection - 3

    HE'D KISSED HER IN THE TWILIGHT .... And Liz's young heart had been lost forever. Now, thirty years later, Guy Heller was back in town, and the widowed Liz Babcock, respected music teacher, pillar of the community, seemed powerless to resist the m...

  • Gentle on My Mind

    Crystal Creek
    Crystal Creek (Numbered) - 20
    River Deep Collection - 8

    HUTCH WAS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR BETSY... But the two of them were so made for each other, it hardly mattered. They seemed to share not only passion, but genuine affection. They never ran out things to say, and Hutch understood Betsy Holden on...

  • Lone Star State of Mind

    Crystal Creek
    Crystal Creek (Numbered) - 24
    River Deep Collection - 12

    SOME FOLKS SAID IT WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME There was a new doctor in town, and he just wasn't their sort. Though Dr. Purdy said Sonny Dekker was the best, the man was a troublemaker. He was messing with the football team, risking boys' futures. An...

  • Always and Forever

  • See How They Run

    In this harrowing, pulse-pounding story of romance and danger by Bethany Campbell, two strangers race to save innocent children from a crime lord’s hit men.   A gifted teacher for special-needs children, Laura Stoner loves her charges, especia...

  • Don't Talk To Strangers

    They were strangers in a seductive game of hide-and-seek. One by one, the women were disappearing. Each had been young, vulnerable...and each had been spending time on the Internet "chatting" with a mysterious stranger. It was Carrie Blue's job to t...

  • Hear No Evil

    Fittingly, it began with a phone call. Her grandmother had fallen. Her grandmother was in the hospital. Her grandmother needed Eden to come home and take care of business. Eden knew the deal. "Business" meant Grandma Jessie's phone line. Jessie wa...

  • The Guardian

    Harlequin Super Romance - 837

    The only rule. Don't Get Involved. To Hawkshaw, they're words to live by He left the Secret Service because he didn't want to take care of anyone but himself. Then an old friend asks him for a favor... The last case. A woman and ...

  • Whose Little Girl Are You?

    With one phone call, Jaye Garrett's life has turned into a nightmare. The beautiful and successful Boston businesswoman has been summoned to her childhood home to receive shocking news. Her brother, Patrick, has fallen desperately ill and needs a bon...

  • P.S. Love You Madly

    Harlequin Super Romance - 931

    FAMILY: YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE THEM! Darcy Parker's mother and Sloan English's father are in love and want to get married. But Darcy's sister is aghast and Sloan's aunt is appalled. That leaves Darcy and Sloan trying to ma...



  • The Baby Gift

    9 Months Later - 31
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1052
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 75

    Josh Morris travels the world in search of its stories. Briana Morris's whole world is a single small farm. They met and married and divorced in little more than the wink of an eye. But together they managed to create one perfect thing -- their daugh...

  • I'll Take Texas

    in Return to Crystal Creek
    Crystal Creek

    Nothing much has changed in Crystal Creek... till now. Cindy Perkins and Teague Sloan Jr. have both been laid off from the Hole in the Wall Dude Ranch. Cindy is staying, but the man she loves insists he's leaving town....

  • A Little Town in Texas

    Crystal Creek
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1129

    Nick Belyle has come to town, and no one's happy to see him. He's the new point man for the corporation that's trying to buy up land and turn Crystal Creek into suburbia. He's also public enemy number one, or so the Concerned Citizens have decided...

  • Home to Texas

    Crystal Creek
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1181

    Tara Hastings never meant to come to Crystal Creek. She's fled to the Texas Hill Country hoping to protect herself and her four-year-old son from the fallout of a nasty divorce. Grady McKinney's home is the open road. Born and raised in Crystal Cr...

  • One True Secret

    Harlequin Super Romance - 1207

    What if the truth doesn't set you free? Emerson Roth has one mission -- protect her family by keeping their secrets. If the decision was left to Emerson, she would stop the lies and live with the consequences, but she has her sister and elderly gr...

  • Wild Horses

    Crystal Creek
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1261
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1261

    Not even wild horses... Nothing could make Michele Nightingale betray the only family she's ever known. So when Adam Duran shows up -- an uninvited stranger bearing bad news -- at the Circle T, she wants nothing to do with him. But he insists on s...

  • Truth And Consequences

    Harlequin NASCAR - 36
    Secrets and Legends - 3

    Penny Branch is stunned to learn that her father has disappeared--and with him, millions of dollars stolen from his bank, his customers and even his family! But even worse is the fact that Penny's soon-to-be ex-husband, bank executive Craig Lockhart,...

  • The Secret Heiress

    Thoroughbred Legacy - 12

    WOULD HE REALLY SWEEP HER OFF HER FEET? Marie Lafayette has struggled for most of her life. So when her mother's dying confession reveals an astonishing truth, Marie walks away from her career to find answers at Fairchild Acres...where she might be ...

  • One Track Mind

    Harlequin NASCAR - 59

    The Halesboro Speedway has been in Lori Garland's family for generations. And thanks to a last-minute offer, she may be able to save the debt-ridden race track. Then she discovers who her mystery buyer is--sports agent Kane Ledger, the bad-boy rebel ...

Award-Winning Books by Bethany Campbell

Every Kind of Heaven
1992 Rita Award -- Traditional Romance
Flirtation River
1988 Golden Medallion -- Traditional
The Roses of Constant
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin Intrigue
See How They Run
1997 Rita Award -- Romantic Suspense


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Bethany Campbell has published 48 books.

Bethany Campbell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, One Track Mind, was published in August 2009.

The first book by Bethany Campbell, After the Stars Fall, was published in November 1985.

Yes. Bethany Campbell has 1 series.
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