Brenda Joyce

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Brenda Joyce
  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1988
  • Latest Book:
    June 2014
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About the Author

Bestselling author Brenda Joyce has written over 45 novels and 4 novellas. She has won many awards including Best Historical Romance and two Lifetime Achievement awards. She has over 14 million copies of her novels in print. She is the author of the bestselling “de Warenne Dynasty” which is a series of books set in historic England and Ireland.

Brenda is a native New Yorker who has transplanted herself to the desert of southern Arizona where she lives with her son, dogs, and reining horses. She splits her time between her two loves: writing love stories and competing with her horses at the regional and national levels.

Full Series List in Order

Braggs

1 - Innocent Fire (Jun-1988)
2 - Firestorm (Nov-1988)
3 - Violet Fire (May-1989)
4 - Dark Fires (Jun-1991)
5 - The Fires of Paradise (Apr-1992)
6 - Scandalous Love (Nov-1992)
7 - Secrets (Apr-1993)
8 - After Innocence (Oct-1994)
9 - The Miracle (Nov-1995)

de Warenne Dynasty

1 - The Conqueror (Sep-1990)
2 - Promise of the Rose (Nov-1993)
3 - The Game (Mar-1995)
4 - The Prize (Oct-2004)
5 - The Masquerade (Sep-2005)
6 - The Stolen Bride (Oct-2006)
7 - A Lady at Last (Dec-2006)
8 - The Perfect Bride (Aug-2007)
9 - A Dangerous Love (Apr-2008)
10 - An Impossible Attraction (Feb-2010)
11 - The Promise (Oct-2010)
12 - Scandalous Love (Nov-1992)
13 - House of Dreams (Sep-2000)

Delanza

1 - Secrets (Apr-1993)
2 - After Innocence (Oct-1994)
3 - The Miracle (Nov-1995)

Francesca Cahill

1 - Deadly Love (Jan-2001)
2 - Deadly Pleasure (Mar-2002)
3 - Deadly Affairs (Apr-2002)
4 - Deadly Desire (May-2002)
5 - Deadly Caress (Apr-2003)
6 - Deadly Promise (Nov-2003)
7 - Deadly Illusions (Feb-2005)
8 - Deadly Kisses (Feb-2006)
9 - Deadly Vows (Feb-2011)

Masters of Time

1 - Dark Seduction (May-2007)
2 - Dark Rival (Oct-2007)
3 - Dark Embrace (Sep-2008)
4 - Dark Victory (Mar-2009)
5 - Dark Lover (Aug-2009)

Medieval Scotland

1 - The Warrior and the Rose (Jun-2013)
2 - A Rose in the Storm (Jun-2013)
3 - A Sword Upon the Rose (Jun-2014)

The Rose Trilogy

1 - Dark Embrace (Sep-2008)
2 - Dark Victory (Mar-2009)
3 - Dark Lover (Aug-2009)

Saint Georges

1 - Beyond Scandal (Oct-1995)
2 - The Finer Things (Apr-1997)

Savage Saga

1 - The Darkest Heart (Dec-1989)
2 - The Fires of Paradise (Apr-1992)

The Spymaster's Men

1 - Seduction (Feb-2012)
2 - Persuasion (Aug-2012)
3 - Surrender (Nov-2012)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • Innocent Fire

    Braggs - 1
    The Avon Romance

    FIRE AND ICE Wrenched from a sheltered life in a French convent, Miranda was on her wary to the New World, betrothed by her English father to a Texas rancher she had never met. It seemed worse than a sentence of death! Shaking with fear, she arriv...

  • Firestorm

    Braggs - 2
    The Avon Romance

    PASSION'S STORM She could outshoot and outride any man, but it was time for Storm Bragg to trade in her buckskins for a ballgown. Sent to sophisticated San Francisco, she was quickly pursued by every eligible gentleman in town, but took notice...

  • Violet Fire

    Braggs - 3
    The Avon Romance

    SCANDALOUS ATTRACTION Impassioned suffragette Grace O'Rourke made a startling first impression on golden-boy Rathe Bragg when she crashed a society party wielding a six-shooter and spouting feminist slogans from atop the grand piano. And from ...

  • Lovers and Liars

    LOVERS... BELINDA -- The movie mogul's sensual, stunning daughter, she was determined to make it on her own as a screenwriter. Independent and driven to succeed, she never dreamed she'd be sidetracked by her own need for a Hollywood supers...

  • The Darkest Heart

    Savage Saga - 1

    SHE WAS CALLED THE BELLE OF THE SOUTHWEST Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from a savage...Jack Savage,...

  • The Conqueror

    de Warenne Dynasty - 1

    HE WAS A GOLDEN, BARBAROUS INVADER Like a pagan god, Rolfe the relentless rode into Castle Aelfgar to claim it and the Lady Alice as his prize. Lauded for his bravery in France, in England he was the hated enemy. Once ensconced in his new domain, Ro...

  • Dark Fires

    Braggs - 4

    "He murdered his wife," they whispered. Nicholas Bragg, Earl of Dragmore, was notorious -- even after a British court found him innocent. Now they called him Lord of Darkness, as much for his rakish good looks as for his black reputation. ...

  • The Fires of Paradise

    Braggs - 5
    Savage Saga - 2

    Heiress to the dazzling Bragg empire, beautiful, headstrong socialite Lucy Bragg lives a life that defies convention. Dark and handsome half-breed Shozkay Savage lives an outlaw's life on the edge. They inhabit different worlds -- hers opulent an...

  • Scandalous Love

    Braggs - 6
    de Warenne Dynasty - 12

    Rebelliously independent Lady Nicole Bragg Shelton refuses to be constrained by the stifling rules of Victorian England. Desire impels the beautiful heiress toward a shocking liaison with Hadrian Braxton-Lowell, Duke of Clayborough. Obsessed by Ni...



  • Secrets

    Braggs - 7
    Delanza - 1

    Injured during a train robbery; Regina Shelton awakens with no memory of who she is -- and in the arms of the most handsome man she has ever seen. The dangerous stranger calls her "Elizabeth," and his touch sets her blood racing -- impelling ...

  • Promise of the Rose

    de Warenne Dynasty - 2

    She is Mary, the beautiful daughter of the Scottish king--and an unwilling prisoner of the Norman invaders. The headstrong princess refuses to reveal her identity--even if it means sacrificing her virtue. But in the arms of a dangerous enemy she disc...

  • After Innocence

    Braggs - 8
    Delanza - 2

    Estranged from society, wealthy and beautiful artist Sofie O'Neil finds solace in her private world. She longs just once to taste a forbidden love -- to follow the dangerous diamond smuggler Edward Delanza to paradise. But Edward wants far more f...

  • The Game

    de Warenne Dynasty - 3

    THE PLAYERS Released from the sanctuary of a French convent, highborn, tempestuous Katherine FitzGerald sets sail for her beloved Ireland--only to find herself prisoner of the infamous pirate known to the Elizabethans as the Master of the Seas. T...

  • Beyond Scandal

    Saint Georges - 1

    Adoring and innocent, Anne Stewart was seduced by Dominick Saint Georges, Viscount Lyons, then brazenly abandoned on their wedding night. Now four years have passed, and England's most mysterious lord has returned to Waverly Hall. Anne can nev...

  • The Miracle

    in A Gift of Joy
    Braggs - 9
    Delanza - 3

    In a remote castle on a windswept island, an American beauty challenges a wild Irish nobleman...and finds that after innocence, passion comes -- and a very special Christmas gift....

  • Captive

    The haunting song of a distant era calls the beautiful graduate student to her subject, the enigmatic Captain Blackwell, Across the centuries, she is drawn by an inexplicable passion into a realm of mystery and danger -- to be imprisoned in an opu...

  • The Finer Things

    Saint Georges - 2

    THE PRETENDER An orphan from London's East End, a fugitive from the poorhouse, Violet Cooper was tired of sleeping on stoops and being hungry and cold. But she dared to enter a world forbidden to her and her kind. Even marriage to a gentle, el...

  • The Awakening

    in Heart of the Home

    No Greater Love... Here, in this very special collection, are four exquisite tales by today's most beloved and talented writers of romantic fiction. Shimmering with emotion, brushed with scandal, and touched with insights into the human heart, these ...

  • Sundown

    in Outlaw Love

    DANGEROUS MEN... SPIRITED WOMEN... UNTAMED DESIRES THAT SET THE WILD WEST AFIRE.... Passion begins at "Sundown" as a spinster schoolteacher finds a wounded fugitive in her father's bed and compromises her honor to rescue him from a wai...



  • Splendor

    She Played a Dangerous Game Carolyn Browne was a poor bookseller's daughter and an enlightened thinker, delighting London with her scathingly witty columns, written under the name Charles Copperville. Penetrating the ton's gilded salons in male di...

  • The Rival

    AMIDST WHISPERS OF TREACHERY AND MURDER, THE STANHOPE HEIR VANISHES WITHOUT A TRACE... After Lionel De Vere's mysterious disappearance, Garrick De Vere becomes heir to an estate shrouded in scandal. Blackmailed by his powerful father into retu...

  • In the Light of Day

    in Scandalous Weddings

    You're invited to four unforgettable weddings - each with a scandal that would make a bride blush! In this delightfully wicked collection, four bestselling authors depict weddings at their most scandalous - and tying the knot has never been so ou...

  • When Dreams Won't Die

    in Perfect Secrets

    Everyone has one. Everyone loves to hear one. Secrets can last for years, or can be exposed in one shocking moment. And sometimes, secrets can be the perfect thing to bring even the most unlikely lovers together... From the foothills of east Texas to...

  • The Third Heiress

    When Jill Gallagher's fiance is tragically killed, she brings his body home to his aristocratic English family. Once there, she enters a world of hostility, suspicion, and closely guarded secrets. Then she finds an old photograph of an American heire...

  • House of Dreams

    de Warenne Dynasty - 13

    Here is the fascinating story of two families who have clashed for centuries -- and two women who dare to explore the dark side of passion and a legacy of betrayal that leads to cold-blooded murder... When Cassandra de Warenne meets Antonio de la ...

  • Deadly Love

    Francesca Cahill - 1

    Welcome to the world of Francesca Cahill, crime solver extraordinaire. Francesca is no ordinary heroine. She refuses to bow to convention, wears her heart on her sleeve, and is determined to right the ills and injustices of society. Deadly Love begin...

  • Deadly Pleasure

    Francesca Cahill - 2

    Step into the glittering world of New York City's high society at the turn of the last century, where murder and pleasure are one and the same, and love becomes the ultimate weapon... Francesca Cahill comes from one of New York's best fami...

  • Deadly Affairs

    Francesca Cahill - 3

    As the heiress to a vast fortune amassed by her millionaire father, Francesca Cahill's life should be mapped out for her: find an eligible suitor, marry, and have children. But Francesca is an unconventional young lady who is not about to give up...

  • Deadly Desire

    Francesca Cahill - 4

    The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming streets harbor secrets of their own. New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has more than he ...



  • The Chase

    The story of one woman whose perfect life comes to an end when she is caught up in the chase for a brilliant and cold-blooded killer... Claire Hayden has no idea that her world is about to be shattered. At the conclusion of her husband's forti...

  • Deadly Caress

    Francesca Cahill - 5

    The year is 1902. The place is New York City. A famous stage actress has been found strangled in an artist's studio, and the artist herself has vanished. Francesca Cahill, the city's most unconventional heiress and famous amateur sleuth, is o...

  • Double Take

    Kait London has been estranged from her twin sister for years. She has never understood why and has always regretted it. When her phone rings in the middle of the night, Kait learns that Lana desperately needs her help. All Kait has to do is take her...

  • Deadly Promise

    Francesca Cahill - 6

    With her beloved Francesca Cahill novels, New York Times bestselling author Brenda Joyce has created a truly memorable series that brings turn-of-the-century New York City vividly to life. Readers enter a world where danger, passion and intrigue ming...

  • The Prize

    de Warenne Dynasty - 4

    VENGEANCE RULED HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS PRIDE INFLAMED HER SPIRIT LOVE CONQUERED THEM BOTH An infamous sea captain of the British Royal Navy, Devlin O'Neill is consumed with the need to destroy the man who brutally murdered his father. Having nearly...

  • Deadly Illusions

    Francesca Cahill - 7

    Manhattan, 1902. Irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her own elegant world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly of society, a place of pride, passions...and sometimes deadly perversions. Despite the misgiv...

  • The Masquerade

    de Warenne Dynasty - 5

    On the evening of her first masquerade, shy Elizabeth Anne Fitzgerald is stunned by Tyrell de Warenne's whispered suggestion of a midnight rendezvous in the gardens. Lizzie has secretly worshiped the unattainable lord for years. When fortune takes a ...

  • Deadly Kisses

    Francesca Cahill - 8

    "I DID NOT KILL ANYONE, FRANCESCA. AND THE FACT THAT YOU WICH TO DESTROY EVIDENCE SUGGESTS YOU THINK ME CAPABLE OF MURDER." NEW YORK, 1902 Called to the home of her fiance Calder Hart's former mistress late one night, amateur sleuth Francesca ...

  • The Stolen Bride

    de Warenne Dynasty - 6
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    Betrothed to a man of honor, her heart belongs to a traitor... Sean O'Neill was once everything to Eleanor de Warenne--but since he disappeared from his ancestral home, there has been no word, and even Eleanor has abandoned hope, promising her han...

  • A Lady at Last

    de Warenne Dynasty - 7
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    Raised as a pirate's daughter, Amanda Carre has not been tutored in the finer social graces. Alone in the world, she has never depended on anyone, until fate intervenes when Cliff de Warenne rescues her from a mob at her father's hanging. Now she mus...



  • Dark Seduction

    Masters of Time - 1
    Mills & Boon Nocturne - 23

    HIGHLAND WARRIORS SWORN TO PROTECT INNOCENCE THROUGH THE AGES... Malcolm of Dunroch is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinary--and dangerous--powers. But he has already broken his vows--and a young woman's death is on his hands. Malcol...

  • The Perfect Bride

    de Warenne Dynasty - 8
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    A woman without passion and a man without hope A childhood trauma has left Lady Blanche Harrington incapable of all emotion, least of all love. Now circumstance demands she marry, and Blanche dreads choosing from her horde of fawning suitors. For ...

  • Dark Rival

    Masters of Time - 2
    Mills & Boon Nocturne - 136

    HIGHLAND WARRIORS SWORN TO PROTECT INNOCENCE THROUGHOUT THE AGES... A golden man, he is called Black Royce--a battle-hardened soldier of the gods. His vows are his life--until he is sent to New York City to protect a Healer from those who would use ...

  • A Dangerous Love

    de Warenne Dynasty - 9
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    A Dangerous OBSESSION Torn from his Romany mother's arms as a small boy, Viscount Emilian St. Xavier has spent a lifetime ignoring the whispers of gypsy that follow him everywhere. A nobleman with wealth, power and privilege, he does not care what ...

  • Dark Embrace

    Masters of Time - 3
    The Rose Trilogy - 1
    Mills & Boon Nocturne - 139

    A HIGHLAND WARRIOR SWORN TO PROTECT INNOCENCE THROUGHOUT THE AGES... Aidan, the Wolf of Awe, has abandoned the Brotherhood and forsaken his vows. Feared by all and trusted by none, he hunts alone, seeking vengeance against the evil that destroyed his...

  • Dark Victory

    Masters of Time - 4
    The Rose Trilogy - 2
    Mills & Boon Nocturne - 144

    HIGHLAND WARRIORS, SWORN TO PROTECT INNOCENCE THROUGH THE AGES... A dark, ruthless Highlander, the Black Macleod has refused his destiny. His life is revenge for the massacre of his family. His enemies' insults--that he is a man of stone--only amuse ...

  • Dark Lover

    Masters of Time - 5
    The Rose Trilogy - 3
    Mills & Boon Nocturne - 146

    HIGHLAND WARRIORS, SWORN TO PROTECT INNOCENCE THROUGH THE AGES... Ian Maclean's arrogance hides a terrible secret--for decades he was held prisoner by demons. Not a day goes by that he isn't tormented by his darkest fears of powerlessness. Now he is ...

  • An Impossible Attraction

    de Warenne Dynasty - 10
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    Never say never... With her mother's passing, Alexandra Bolton gave up on love to take care of her family. Now, with the Bolton name in disgrace due to her father's profligate ways, marrying an elderly squire might be the only way to save ...

  • The Promise

    de Warenne Dynasty - 11

    Pride... After a record breaking sail from China, Alexi de Warenne’s moment of triumph quickly vanishes. At his welcoming party, his bewitching childhood friend Elysse O’Neill begins flirting with a shipmate, clearly punishing Alexi for his time...

  • Deadly Vows

    Francesca Cahill - 9

    New York City, 1902 Something happened on the way to her wedding... On the morning of her wedding to Calder Hart, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill is lured away to a private viewing of a portrait that could destroy her entire family: the nude Hart c...



  • Brenda's Story

  • Seduction

    The Spymaster's Men - 1

    Dominic Paget, the earl of Bedford, will do anything to resume spying upon Britain's enemies. Badly wounded, he is put will do anything in the care of a beautiful gentlewoman, Julianne Greystone, only to discover that her sympathies lie with his enem...

  • Persuasion

    The Spymaster's Men - 2

    Amelia Greystone was deeply in love when the Earl of St. Just abruptly ended his courtship and left Cornwall ten years earlier. So she is stunned when Simon returns, recently widowed. Now she must forget the past they shared and his betrayal and cons...

  • Surrender

    The Spymaster's Men - 3

    A Desperate Widow Once a penniless orphan, Evelyn D'Orsay became a countess and a bride at the tender age of sixteen. But the flames of revolution forced her to flee France, with the aid of a notorious smuggler. Recently widowed and without any ...

  • A Rose in the Storm

    Medieval Scotland - 2

    Join New York Times bestselling author Brenda Joyce for an epic story of undying love and forbidden desire in the Highlands… When Rivalry Becomes Passion With warfare blazing through Scotland, the fate of the Comyn-MacDougall legacy depends o...

  • The Warrior and the Rose

    in Highlanders
    Medieval Scotland - 1

    Lady Juliana MacDougall prays for her loved ones to survive battle against Robert Bruce...but the battle comes to her when her lands are attacked by a band of Highlanders, including a man wearing the colors of her clan's worst enemy. Taken hostage by...

  • A Sword Upon the Rose

    Medieval Scotland - 3

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Joyce takes you back to the Highlands, where the battle for land, liberty and love rages on… A bastard daughter, Alana was cast away at birth and forgotten by her mighty Comyn family. Raised in solitude ...

Award-Winning Books by Brenda Joyce

Dark Victory
2009 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romance Of The Year
The Darkest Heart
1990 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Sensual Historical Romance
Innocent Fire
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- First Western Romance
Splendor
1997 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romance of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brenda Joyce has published 56 books.

Brenda Joyce does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Sword Upon the Rose, was published in June 2014.

The first book by Brenda Joyce, Innocent Fire, was published in June 1988.

Yes. Brenda Joyce has 10 series.
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