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  • Bibliography:
    86 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1999
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Writing was the last profession that Brenda Novak ever expected to pursue. Being math and science minded, Novak pursued business at Brigham Young University, but abandoned her academic scholarship to get married and have children. She worked in real estate and ended up working as a loan officer. What triggered Novak's writing career was finding out her day-care provider had been drugging her children in order to get them to sleep. After that, she wanted a career that she could do from home.

Her first novel, Of Noble Birth, was published and was a Romantic Times award winner. She is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author and many of her books have won awards such as the National Reader's Choice award. She lives in Sacramento with her husband and their five children.

Full Series List in Order

Bulletproof

1 - Inside (Jul-2011)
2 - In Seconds (Sep-2011)
3 - In Close (Oct-2011)

Coyote Canyon

1 - Talulah's Back in Town (Aug-2023)
2 - The Talk of Coyote Canyon (Nov-2023)
3 - The Messy Life of Jane Tanner (Feb-2024)

A Dundee, Idaho Book

1 - A Baby of Her Own // That One Night (Aug-2002)
2 - A Husband of Her Own // Falling for You (Apr-2003)
3 - A Family of Her Own // First Love, Second Chance (Mar-2004)
4 - A Home of Her Own // Say You Love Me (Nov-2004)
5 - Stranger in Town // Meant for You (May-2005)
6 - Big Girls Don't Cry // Finding You (Sep-2005)
7 - The Other Woman // Just the Two of Us (May-2006)
8 - Coulda Been a Cowboy // The More I Love You (Jun-2007)
9 - A Dundee Christmas (Nov-2010)

Evelyn Talbot Chronicles

1 - Hanover House (Sep-2015)
2 - Her Darkest Nightmare (Sep-2016)
3 - Hello Again (Oct-2017)
4 - Face Off (Aug-2018)
5 - Blind Spot (Sep-2019)

Fairham Island

1 - The Secret Sister (Aug-2015)
2 - The Secrets She Kept (Aug-2016)

Hired Gun

1 - White Heat (Aug-2010)
2 - Body Heat (Sep-2010)
3 - Killer Heat (Oct-2010)

Last Stand

0.2 - The Last Stand Collection Volume 2 (Apr-2017)
1 - Trust Me (Jun-2008)
2 - Stop Me (Jul-2008)
3 - Watch Me (Aug-2008)
4 - The Perfect Couple (Aug-2009)
5 - The Perfect Liar (Sep-2009)
6 - The Perfect Murder (Oct-2009)

Silver Springs

1 - Finding Our Forever (Apr-2017)
2 - No One but You (Jun-2017)
3 - Until You Loved Me (Aug-2017)
4 - Right Where We Belong (Oct-2017)
5 - Unforgettable You (Feb-2019)
6 - Christmas in Silver Springs (Nov-2019)
7 - A California Christmas (Oct-2020)
8 - When I Found You (Jul-2021)
9 - Keep Me Warm at Christmas (Oct-2021)

Stillwater

1 - Dead Silence (Aug-2006)
2 - Dead Giveaway (Feb-2007)
3 - Dead Right (Aug-2007)

Whiskey Creek

0.5 - When We Touch (Aug-2012)
1 - When Lightning Strikes (Sep-2012)
2 - When Snow Falls (Oct-2012)
3 - When Summer Comes (Feb-2013)
4 - Home to Whiskey Creek (Aug-2013)
5 - Take Me Home for Christmas (Nov-2013)
6 - Come Home to Me (Mar-2014)
7 - The Heart of Christmas (Nov-2014)
8 - This Heart of Mine (Apr-2015)
9 - A Winter Wedding (Nov-2015)
10 - Discovering You (May-2016)
10.5 - Home for the Holidays (Aug-2021)

Multi-Author Series List

9 Months Later

21 - Expectations // Back to You (Feb-2000)
26 - Snow Baby (Sep-2000)
27 - Baby Business (Dec-2000)
35 - A Baby of Her Own // That One Night (Aug-2002)

The Birth Place

2 - Sanctuary (Oct-2003)

Book List in Order: 86 titles

  • Of Noble Birth

    HE WAS A MAN WHO TOOK WHAT HE WANTED. AND HE WANTED HER. To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England . . . though not as a captive aboard a pirate's ship. Pirate Captain Nathaniel Kent's s...

  • Expectations // Back to You

    9 Months Later - 21
    Harlequin Super Romance - 899
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 18

    Jenna Livingston: age 32. Divorced. Mother of eight-year-old Ryan. And... pregnant. SHE's PREGNANT BY HER EX-HUSBAND. A MAN SHE HAS REASON TO FEAR.... With her son, Ryan, Jenna's moved back to Mendocino, where she's living and working ...

  • Snow Baby

    9 Months Later - 26
    Harlequin Super Romance - 939
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 36

    It happened one snowy night... When Chantel Miller gets lost during an unexpected snowstorm, a stranger named Dillon Broderick rescues her. In the hours they spend together they become very close and the intimacy of that night creates a special b...

  • Baby Business

    9 Months Later - 27
    Harlequin Super Romance - 955
    Men Made in America 2 (reissues) - 44
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 52

    Saving her child means having his baby. She needs money, a lot of it, to pay for her daughter's operation. Macy McKinney will do anything for five-year-old Haley. Businessman Thad Winters, a widower, wants a child without the complications of a...

  • Dear Maggie

    Harlequin Super Romance - 987
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 80

    What Maggie does...Maggie Russell, a police reporter in Sacramento, works the night shift. She's divorced and the mother of a very active three-year-old son. Maggie may not have much time for a social life, but she's recently begun an email correspon...

  • We Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

    Harlequin Super Romance - 1021
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 104

    Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to the golden boy -- former golden boy -- of their small Nevada town. The marriage was a disaster because her ex-husband never grew up. And he sure wasn't much of a daddy. ...

  • Shooting the Moon

    Harlequin Super Romance - 1058
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 112

    He's a man from the past -- and a man with a past... When Harley Nelson got on his motorcycle and drove out of Portland, Oregon, 10 years ago, he left behind a bad reputation -- and a baby. Audra Worthington was the reason for both. Well, the ba...

  • A Baby of Her Own // That One Night

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 1
    9 Months Later - 35
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1083
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 125

    What Delaney wants...is a baby. A baby of her own. At thirty, she longs to break away from the constraints of her life. Longs to reach out for her heart's desire. She'd prefer marriage as well, but there's no man in Dundee, Idaho, she'...

  • Taking the Heat

    To support herself and her one-year-old daughter, Gabrielle Hadley is working as a prison guard just about the only job available in the small desert town of Florence, Arizona. Randall Tucker is a prisoner at Florence, convicted of murdering his w...



  • A Husband of Her Own // Falling for You

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 2
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1130
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 142

    Who's going to win the battle of Dundee, Idaho? The town's bad girl or its favorite son? Rebecca Wells desperately wants to overcome her reputation. She's finally trying to put an end to her twenty-four-year rivalry with the perfect Josh Hill, a ...

  • Sanctuary

    Harlequin Super Romance - 1158
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 185
    The Birth Place - 2

    The Birth Place gave her sanctuary Hope Tanner escaped from her polygamous community in Superior, Utah, ten years ago -- pregnant and alone. She ended up at The Birth Place in Enchantment, New Mexico, where Lydia Kane, the clinic's founder, handle...

  • Cold Feet

    The Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead, and all she wants is the chance to create a new life for herself and her six-year-...

  • A Family of Her Own // First Love, Second Chance

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 3
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1195
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 153

    Pregnant...and alone? When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it's not because she wants to. It's because she's disillusioned, broke -- and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she's paying a high pri...

  • What a Girl Wants // To Win Her Heart

    in Mother, Please!

    What's a daughter to do? Three brand-new stories... three eexxaassppeerraattiinngg moms Abby Ashton's roommate-from-hell... her mother. If she doesn't get her parents back together, she'll go crazy. So Abby schemes to get them to Mexico with he...

  • Small Packages

    in More Than Words

    Somewhere, at this very moment, a woman's caring and commitment is changing a life in her community...and changing the world. Five of these compassionate, dedicated women have been chosen from nominees across North America to become Harlequin's More ...

  • A Home of Her Own // Say You Love Me

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 4
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1242
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 195

    Her mother always said if you couldn't be rich you'd better be lucky! When Lucky Caldwell was ten, her mother, Red -- the best-known hooker in Dundee, Idaho -- married Morris Caldwell, a wealthy and much older man. It didn't last, of course, but M...

  • Stranger in Town // Meant for You

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 5
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1278
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1278
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 215

    What happens when you nearly kill a man -- and then fall in love with him? The car accident was Hannah Price's fault -- a few seconds of inattention that changed Gabe Holbrook's life forever, destroying everything he'd been or ever wanted to be. ...

  • Every Waking Moment

    Sometimes you have to risk it all... Emma Wright has finally escaped the dangerous man who's controlled her every move for the past six years. Taking her five-year-old son, she has fled across the country -- seeking freedom, safety and a fresh sta...

  • Big Girls Don't Cry // Finding You

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 6
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1296
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1296
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 243

    Sometimes Mr. Right couldn't be more wrong... Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook's once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted -- and now it's gone. Sometimes Mr. Wrong couldn't ...



  • The Other Woman // Just the Two of Us

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 7
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1344
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1344

    A second chance doesn't mean second best! Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. N...

  • Dead Silence

    Stillwater - 1

    There's a body buried behind a Mississippi farmhouse Grace Montgomery knows who it is, and she knows why it happened. She was only thirteen the night it all went wrong. And now, like then, she has no choice but to keep her mouth shut. Grace lef...

  • Just Like the Ones We Used to Know // The Best Christmas Surprise

    Harlequin Super Romance - 1380
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1380
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 296

    Angela Forrester is determined her foster child will get the one thing she wants for Christmas: to meet her real father--even though he doesn't know he has a little girl....

  • Dead Giveaway

    Stillwater - 2

    The Reverend Lee Barker went missing nineteen years ago... And the people of Stillwater, Mississippi, believe they know why. They're convinced he was murdered--by his stepson, Clay Montgomery. But only Clay--and his mother and sisters--can say for...

  • Coulda Been a Cowboy // The More I Love You

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 8
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1422
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1422

    Old-fashioned values never go out of style Grandpa Garnier used to say, Love is like a bucking bronco. It takes guts and determination to hang on, but it's worth the ride. If only Grandpa was around now to help Tyson Garnier out of this mess. The ...

  • Dead Right

    Stillwater - 3

    The people of Stillwater, Mississippi, are asking questions about murder. Again. Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepfamily had nothing to do with it. But the recen...

  • Trust Me

    Last Stand - 1

    Four years ago... Skye Kellerman was attacked in her own bed. She managed to fend off her knife-wielding assailant, but the trauma changed everything about her life. As a result of that night, she joined two friends--also survivors--in starting The ...

  • Stop Me

    Last Stand - 2

    Who was the real killer? Romain Fornier lost his reason for living when his daughter was kidnapped and murdered. He used a cop's gun to mete out his own justice and spent the next few years in prison. Once he was freed, he returned to his Cajun ro...

  • Watch Me

    Last Stand - 3

    Someone tried to kill her twelve years ago. Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died--and the stranger was never caught....

  • The Perfect Couple

    Last Stand - 4

    A mother faces her greatest fear One afternoon in May, Zoe Duncan's thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing from her own backyard. The police think Samantha ran away because she's unhappy about her mother's upcoming marriage--but Zoe doesn't believe ...



  • The Perfect Liar

    Last Stand - 5

    Obsession leads to lies... When air force captain Luke Trussell opens his door one Sunday morning, he's shocked to find the police -- and even more shocked when they charge him with rape. He knows he made a mistake in judgment the night before, bu...

  • The Perfect Murder

    Last Stand - 6

    If someone commits the perfect murder... For more than a year, Sebastian Costas has been trying to unravel the truth behind the murder of his ex-wife and son. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, he's convinced that her second husband -- a ...

  • On a Snowy Christmas

    in The Night Before Christmas (Harlequin)

    When their private plane crashes in the Sierra Nevada, two political enemies discover that survival means more than just living -- it also means loving....

  • White Heat

    Hired Gun - 1

    PARADISE? IN NAME ONLY... A dangerous cult has recently taken over the desert ghost town of Paradise, Arizona. Members worship at the feet -- and in the bed -- of its charismatic leader, Ethan Wycliff, and obey his orders blindly. They've already tr...

  • Body Heat

    Hired Gun - 2

    THE HEAT IS ON… Twelve people have been shot at pointblank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It’s Sophia St. Claire’s job to do something about it. She’s Bordertown, Arizona’s new chief of police -- and she's out of her depth. Help...

  • Killer Heat

    Hired Gun - 3

    TOO HOT TO HANDLE... The bodies of seven women have been discovered in Skull Valley, Arizona. Jonah Young, a private security operative from Department 6, has been hired by the Yavapai County Sheriff to assist in solving these murders. But Jonah’...

  • A Dundee Christmas

    A Dundee, Idaho Book - 9
    Harlequin Super Romance - 1668
    Harlequin Super Romance Large Print - 1668

    A woman seeking refuge in a strange town during a snowstorm is taken in by a man who helps her discover that home is where the love is....

  • Inside

    Bulletproof - 1

    Dangerous to know... Virgil Skinner served fourteen years for a murder he didn’t commit. He’s finally been exonerated, but he can’t escape the gang he joined in order to survive. They’ll do anything to keep him from telling what he knows. An...

  • In Seconds

    Bulletproof - 2

    THEY'RE BACK... Laurel Hodges has changed her identity twice. She's been on the run for the past four years, trying to outdistance the gang members who blame her for the death of one of their own. She's finally found peace and stability in the small...

  • In Close

    Bulletproof - 3

    THE TRUTH CAN BE MURDER... Claire O'Toole's mother, Alana, went missing fifteen years ago. That was big news in Pineview, Montana, the kind of town where nothing much ever happens. Then, last year, Claire's husband, David, died in a freak accident -...



  • A Family by Christmas

    Harlequin Heartwarming (Reissues) - 32

    WHAT THEY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A DADDY! Jaclyn Wentworth is on her own with three little kids. She used to be married to the golden boy of their small Nevada town, but the marriage was a disaster because the golden boy never grew up. And he sure ...

  • When We Touch

    Whiskey Creek - 0.5

    You're invited to a wedding in Whiskey Creek, Heart of the Gold Country Unfortunately, it's the wrong wedding. Olivia Arnold is arranging the festivities -- and it's the hardest thing she's ever done. Because she should be marrying Kyle Houseman. ...

  • Blood In, Blood Out

    in Love Is Murder (Mira)

    In this Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak shows how past deeds and current love can both bind us to our fate. Rex McReady joined the Crew to survive in prison, but he also killed two of his onetime brothers to save Laurel...

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Whiskey Creek - 1

    Simon O'Neal's causing trouble again. And it's up to Gail DeMarco to stop him. Gail DeMarco left Whiskey Creek, California, to make a name for herself in Los Angeles. Her PR firm has accumulated a roster of A-list clients, including the biggest bo...

  • When Snow Falls

    Whiskey Creek - 2

    After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own. She's grateful, too, for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by the ...

  • When Summer Comes

    Whiskey Creek - 3

    Welcome to Whiskey Creek -- Heart of the Gold Country! One day, Callie Vanetta receives devastating news… She needs a liver transplant. But her doctors warn that, in her case, the chances of finding a compatible donor aren't good. Determi...

  • The Bastard

    Jeannette Boucher, a young French beauty from a family left penniless by the revolution, must marry against her will to save them all from ruin. But almost immediately after the vows are spoken, she learns that her old English husband is impotent―a...

  • Home to Whiskey Creek

    Whiskey Creek - 4

    Sometimes home is the refuge you need -- and sometimes it isn't Adelaide Davies, who's been living in Sacramento, returns to Whiskey Creek, the place she once called home. She's there to take care of her aging grandmother and to help with Gran's ...

  • Through the Smoke

    A shocking betrayal… Riches. Power. An ancient heritage of pride. The Earl of Druridge wanted only for an heir. So when he learned that his wife was carrying another man’s child, he was filled with a thirst for vengeance. But he wasn’t the ...

  • Take Me Home for Christmas

    Whiskey Creek - 5

    Christmas is a time for remembering… Too bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the town's Mean Girl. Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned. But Sophia has paid the price for her y...



  • Come Home to Me

    Whiskey Creek - 6

    Home is where her heart is When Presley Christensen returns to Whiskey Creek with her little boy after two years away, she has completely changed her life. She's made peace with her past and overcome the negative behavior that resulted from her di...

  • Honor Bound

    Lieutenant Crawford Treynor has fought valiantly for everything he has. The bastard child of a noblewoman, he was handed over as an infant to a poor farmer -- and beaten so badly that he ran away at age fourteen. Now a respected officer, he vows to c...

  • A Matter of Grave Concern

    Bestselling author Brenda Novak unearths love in the darkest of places. When Maximillian Wilder hides his noble identity and joins the notorious body snatchers known as the London Supply Company, the last thing on his mind is love. He’s worried ...

  • The Heart of Christmas

    Whiskey Creek - 7

    Just call her Christmas Eve… Eve Harmon has always enjoyed Christmas, but this year it reminds her of everything she doesn't have. Almost all her friends are married now, and that's what Eve wants, too. Love. A husband and kids of her own. But ...

  • This Heart of Mine

    Whiskey Creek - 8

    First love. Second chance? As the daughter of a hoarder, Phoenix Fuller had a tough childhood. So when the handsome, popular Riley Stinson became her boyfriend in high school, she finally felt as though she had something to be proud of. Phoenix ...

  • The Secret Sister

    Fairham Island - 1

    Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the South Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to heal -- and to help her brother, ...

  • Hanover House

    Evelyn Talbot Chronicles - 1

    Welcome to Hanover House…. Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the antisocial mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don’t they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause?...

  • A Winter Wedding

    Whiskey Creek - 9

    One Christmas can change your life… Kyle Houseman believes he'll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who's now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no desire to go thr...

  • Discovering You

    Whiskey Creek - 10

    Can she ever trust another "bad boy"? India Sommers once had the perfect family -- until an ex-boyfriend broke in and shot her husband. Not only did that cost her the man she loved, a respected heart surgeon and the father of her child, but she a...

  • The Secrets She Kept

    Fairham Island - 2

    Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking! The rich and powerful J...

  • Her Darkest Nightmare

    Evelyn Talbot Chronicles - 2

    THE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER Evelyn Talbot knows that a psychopath can look perfectly normal. She was only sixteen when her own boyfriend Jasper imprisoned and tortured her―and left her for dead. Now an eminent psychiatrist who specializes in the ...

  • The Last Stand Collection Volume 2

    Last Stand - 0.2

    The Last Stand Collection by Brenda Novak, Volume 2Three perfect stories of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak…The Perfect CoupleOne afternoon in May, Zoe Duncan’s thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing from he...

  • Finding Our Forever

    Silver Springs - 1
    Mills & Boon Cherish (Australia)
    Mills & Boon Cherish 2-in-1 - 311
    Silhouette Special Edition - 2539

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes readers to the town of Silver Springs, where surprises wait around every corner The search for her birth mother brought Cora Kelly to the New Horizons Boys' Ranch. Getting a job there was eas...

  • No One but You

    Silver Springs - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes you to Silver Springs, a picturesque small town in Southern California where even the hardest hearts can learn to love again… Struggling to make ends meet after a messy divorce, Sadie Harr...

  • Until You Loved Me

    Silver Springs - 3

    Sometimes starting over means finding everything you've been missing… After catching her fiancé cheating -- with another man -- usually straitlaced, workaholic scientist Ellie Fisher liberates her wild side just long enough to indulge in a pas...

  • Right Where We Belong

    Silver Springs - 4

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs with a moving story about rebuilding your life when you've got nothing left to lose Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her "perfect" life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, h...

  • Hello Again

    Evelyn Talbot Chronicles - 3

    SHE CAN MAKE SENSE OF A COMPLEX CRIMINAL MIND. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she’s about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr. Lyman...

  • Face Off

    Evelyn Talbot Chronicles - 4

    From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak comes FACE OFF, the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths. SHE VOWED NEVER TO BE A VICTIM AGAIN. BUT NOW A KILLER HAS HER IN HIS SIGHT... Tortured and l...

  • Before We Were Strangers

    Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she’s determined to uncover her family’s dark secrets, even if they bury her. Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn’t sleep that night. Her parents were arg...

  • Unforgettable You

    Silver Springs - 5

    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs, where no past mistake is so big the heart can’t find a way to fix it. Jada Brooks couldn’t have known how her life would change when she fell for bad boy Maddox Richards...

  • Blind Spot

    Evelyn Talbot Chronicles - 5

    New York Times bestseller Brenda Novak's Evelyn Talbot series returns, with a heavily pregnant Evelyn being held hostage. With Jasper Moore, the privileged boy who attacked her when she was only sixteen, finally caught and in prison, Dr. Evely...

  • Christmas in Silver Springs

    Silver Springs - 6

    Come home to Silver Springs for the holidays, where broken hearts learn to love again…together. So much for forever. When Harper Devlin’s rock star husband ditches her on his way to the top, she takes her two daughters to her sister’s place ...

  • One Perfect Summer

    Some families we’re born into Some we find for ourselves When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn’t kno...

  • A California Christmas

    Silver Springs - 7

    Spend the holidays in Silver Springs, where the greatest gift of all is the love you never expected. Up-and-coming TV anchor Emery Bliss can’t imagine anything more humiliating than the sex tape her ex revenge-posted online. That is, until it ca...

  • The Bookstore on the Beach

    How do you start a new chapter when you haven’t closed the book on the last one? Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac’s husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers -- she still has no idea where he went or why. After being h...

  • When I Found You

    Silver Springs - 8

    Sometimes the biggest emotional risk can reap the best romantic reward… After everything she worked for is destroyed, pediatrician Natasha Gray is determined to build a new life. Divorced, bankrupt and suddenly a single mom, she’s ready to st...

  • Home for the Holidays

    Whiskey Creek - 10.5

    A heartfelt holiday novella by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak… Natasha Sharp was just a teenager when her mom married Mack Amos’s dad, and despite her crush, Mack always held her at arm’s length. Years after their parents’ ...

  • Keep Me Warm at Christmas

    Silver Springs - 9

    Maybe this Christmas can thaw his frozen heart -- and heal hers. Hollywood starlet Tia Beckett knows one moment can change your life. Her career had been on the fast track before a near-fatal accident left her with a debilitating facial scar. Cert...

  • Summer on the Island

    A summer of healing, friendship, love…and a secret that could change everything. After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother s...

  • The Seaside Library

    There are secrets that bring friends together, and others that drive them apart… Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse l...

  • Talulah's Back in Town

    Coyote Canyon - 1

    Sometimes the past we leave behind leads us right where we belong. Talulah Barclay doesn’t like complications. Unfortunately, they seem to love her. Fourteen years after leaving her fiancé at the altar, Talulah returns to her hometown of Coyote...

  • The Talk of Coyote Canyon

    Coyote Canyon - 2

    She’s not here to make friends. She’s here to make trouble. With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn’t quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon -- and that’s just fine with her. She’s only here to...

  • The Messy Life of Jane Tanner

    Coyote Canyon - 3

    When your life is chaotic, what’s one more complication? Jane Tanner’s friends are settling down, while she’s been settling for less. She longs for adventure and the big city, but caring for her ailing grandfather means she's shackled to...

  • Tourist Season

    A summer by the ocean promises new beginnings -- until old secrets resurface. Ismay Chalmers is ready for a relaxing summer reconnecting with her fiancé at his family’s luxurious beachfront cottage. But before Remy can join her, a hurricane bea...

  • The Banned Books Club

    She left her hometown following a scandal -- but family loyalty is dragging her back… Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi’s sister, Margot, begs her to come home to Wakefield, Iowa, to help with their ailing mother, Gia knows s...

  • Tying the Knot

    Silhouette Special Edition - 3057

    They’re taking a chance on love…by marrying the wrong person All of Grady Amos’s brothers are married, and he's feeling left behind. Aja Kermani wants to break away from the man chosen by her parents and marry for love. This leads them ...

  • The Summer That Changed Everything

    She returned to prove her father's innocence, but there's no telling what she'll find… It's been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison for the m...

Award-Winning Books by Brenda Novak

Sanctuary
2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin SuperRomance
This Heart of Mine
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Romance
When Snow Falls
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Romance


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Brenda Novak has published 86 books.

The next book by Brenda Novak, The Summer That Changed Everything, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Brenda Novak, Of Noble Birth, was published in December 1999.

Yes. Brenda Novak has 10 series.
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