Janelle Taylor

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Janelle Taylor
  • Bibliography:
    62 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1981
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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About the Author

Before Janelle Taylor wrote full-time, she worked as an orthodontic nurse and a Medical Research Technologist. She had begun writing in 1977, after hearing an inspiring quote from Kathleen Woodiwiss on the Today Show. Her first book was published in 1981.

Since then, Taylor has written over 50 books with 60 million copies in print. She is best known for her Gray Eagle Lakota, Moondust and Lakota Skies novels. Her books have been translated into 50 different languages. She is a New York Times Bestselling author and her many accolades include induction into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She lives in Georgia with her husband where they enjoy hiking, riding bikes and watching their grandchildren play sports. Taylor is currently working on a new mystery series.

Full Series List in Order

Gray Eagle

1 - Savage Ecstasy (Sep-1981)
2 - Defiant Ecstasy (Feb-1982)
3 - Forbidden Ecstasy (Jul-1982)
4 - Brazen Ecstasy (Mar-1983)
5 - Tender Ecstasy (Jun-1983)
6 - Stolen Ecstasy (Sep-1985)
7 - Bittersweet Ecstasy (Apr-1987)
8 - Forever Ecstasy (Jan-1991)
9 - Savage Conquest (Feb-1985)

Lakota Winds

1 - Lakota Winds (Mar-1997)
2 - Lakota Dawn (Feb-1999)
3 - Lakota Flower (Sep-2003)

Moondust

1 - Moondust and Madness (May-1986)
2 - Stardust and Shadows (Sep-1992)
3 - Starlight and Splendor (Oct-1994)
4 - Moonbeams and Magic (Oct-1995)

Related Books

1 - Wild Is My Love (Nov-1987)
2 - Wild, Sweet Promise // The Last Viking Queen (Apr-1989)

Western Wind

1 - First Love, Wild Love (Oct-1984)
2 - Passions Wild and Free (Oct-1988)
3 - Kiss of the Night Wind (Jul-1989)
4 - Follow the Wind (Oct-1990)
5 - Chase the Wind (May-1994)
6 - Wild Winds (Aug-1997)

Book List in Order: 62 titles

  • Savage Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 1

    THEIR LOVE WAS FANNED BY FORBIDDEN FLAMES It was like lightning, the first time they looked into each other's eyes: Gray Eagle, the captured Indian brave, and Alisha, the beautiful young settler. As the proud Oglala warrior was being tortured ...

  • Defiant Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 2

    Their love was as fierce as the savage frontier! The longer Alisha Williams remained at Fort Pierre, the more she hoped her redskinned lover would rescue her from the taunts and tirades of the white pioneers. They would never let her forget she ha...

  • Forbidden Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 3

    Alisha found rapture in Grey Eagle's arms -- and betrayal in his heart! ALISHA was silk and satin, honey and fire. Never before did the possession of a man fill her with such excitement as when she held her handsome Indian lover in her arms. ...

  • Brazen Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 4

    SEARING PASSION BOUND THEM TOGETHER -- JEALOUS FATE TORE THEM APART! For four years, green-eyed Alisha Williams had been Princess Shalee, the cherished wife of the Oglala chief Gray Eagle. Still their love was stronger than the surging white water...

  • Tender Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 5

    SHE CRAVED PASSION FROM HIS SAVAGE HEART! SECOND GENERATION Twenty years had passed since the embers of desire first sparked between the handsome Indian Gray Eagle and his alluring white beauty Alisha Williams. Now it was time for their son Bri...

  • Love Me With Fury

    When golden-haired Alexandra first saw the dark-haired stranger, her fury knew no bounds. How dare he intrude on her privacy as she swam in her secret pool! The moment Captain Joshua Steele set eyes on the angry young woman, he saw only a delectable ...

  • Golden Torment

    THEY CLIMBED THE JAGGED MOUNTAINS -- AND SCALED THE PINNACLE OF DESIRE! TREASURED MOMENTS The instant Kathryn saw Landis Jurrell, she didn't know what to fear more: the fierce lumberjack or the torrid emotions he ignited in her. The independ...

  • Valley of Fire

    Harlequin American Romance - 54

    Would their love be consumed in the valley of fire? The woman lying unconscious in the Nevada desert was Kathy Alexander, romance writer. The man who rescued her, who at first identified himself as Lance Reynolds, was really Steven Winngate, owner...

  • First Love, Wild Love

    Western Wind - 1

    HE STOLE HER INNOCENCE When the handsome cattle baron Lynx Cardone saw the luscious wench sleeping in his hotel room, he was certain she was there for his enjoyment. Why else would she be wearing a revealing red dress with her rich chestnut hair spr...



  • Savage Bondage

  • Savage Conquest

    Gray Eagle - 9

    SHE DREADED THE NIGHT WITH THE HANDSOME BRAVE -- AND HOPED IT WOULD NEVER END! SOUTHERN DESIRE There was no Virginia belle more irresistible than stunning, ebony-haired Miranda Lawrence. Though the voluptuous beauty had her pick of handsome bea...

  • Stolen Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 6

    BRIGHT ARROW'S FIRST PASSION Seven years had past since the Oglala Sioux had banished Bright Arrow for loving the magnificent captive Rebecca Kenny. Still, his hands always ached to stroke her creamy flesh; his lips needed to ravish her each night. ...

  • Destiny's Temptress

    UNION SPY Shannon Greenleaf had one chance to save the gracious Southern lifestyle she'd always known - but the fiery-haired beauty had to cross enemy lines to do it. And when she did, she found herself in the bedroom of the most handsome man she'...

  • Moondust and Madness

    Moondust - 1

    CAPTIVE TO HIS SAVAGE PASSION... A moan escaped Jana Greyson as this strong, handsome stranger invaded her lips with his demanding kisses. He had stolen her from her world, made her his prisoner, and now enslaved her with the trembling rapture of h...

  • Sweet Savage Heart

    SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE HIM Kidnapped when she was a child, 18-year-old Rana Michaels couldn't imagine any life other than her carefree existence among the Sioux. Then the white man Travis Kincade appeared in her camp, and the flame haired beauty's peac...

  • Bittersweet Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 7

    SINGING WIND'S TORMENT Impetuous and willful, daring and free, ebony-haired Singing Wind had always been mistress of her fate. But when she set eyes on the virile Sun Cloud, the famous Bright Arrow's younger brother, she felt herself losing the cont...

  • Wild Is My Love

    Related Books - 1

    SET IN A THRILLING AGE OF NOBLE KNIGHTS AND LADIES FAIR, HERE IS A MAGICAL, ROMANTIC TALE OF BOLD ADVENTURE, EXOTIC FANTASY AND WILD, ENDLESS LOVE... She is the bewitchingly lovely Princess Alysa. He is a mysterious stranger who has come to res...

  • Fortune's Flames

    BRASH BUCCANEER When ebony-haired Maren James heard that the notorious Captain Hawk was aboard her British ship searching for illegally impressed American sailors, she couldn't wait for the pirate to be on his way She was impatient to be back ...

  • Passions Wild and Free

    Western Wind - 2

    MISCHIEVOUS VIXEN After seeing her home and family destroyed by the cruel and hateful Epson gang, Randee Hollis swore revenge. The feisty young woman knew that she couldn't do the nasty job alone--she needed one good man to help her stop the murdero...



  • Wild, Sweet Promise // The Last Viking Queen

    Related Books - 2

    FIERY PASSION He claimed her heart and she made him a prince. Now Princess Alysa and Prince Gavin possess a bond stronger and deeper than they have ever known before -- a bond of undying passion... and royal power. But fierce Viking hordes n drago...

  • Kiss of the Night Wind

    Western Wind - 3

    He was a lowdown liar... Deserting her brother's outlaw gang, Carrie Sue Stover headed to Tucson to start a new life as "Carolyn Starns," schoolmarm. Then her stage was attacked, she was rescued by a devilishly handsome gunslinger -- and the fiery re...

  • Whispered Kisses

    FLIRTING WITH DANGER Texas heiress Laura Leigh Webster thought she was prepared for the perils she and her guardian, Lord Chadwick Hamilton, might face on their exotic African safari. The beautiful blonde never dreamed her biggest worry would be a b...

  • Follow the Wind

    Western Wind - 4

    Determined to protect her family from violent attempts to drive them off their vast Texas ranch, Jessica Lane rode to San Angelo to hire a cold-blooded gunslinger to fight by her side. She found much more than that in Navarro, a half-breed outlaw who...

  • Forever Ecstasy

    Gray Eagle - 8

    Morning Star knew it was her duty as an Oglala princess to join with a warrior of her tribe. After all, she was the granddaughter of the revered Gray Eagle, and her father was the great Chief Sun Cloud. But the moment she gazed into the sky-blue eyes...

  • Promise Me Forever

    ... a sweeping tale of a beautiful, innocent woman racing against time to solve a chilling mystery and clear her name. At her side is a man who can neither trust nor resist her. They are both after the truth -- but for very different reasons... I...

  • Kiss of the Christmas Wind

    in Christmas Rendezvous

    As newlyweds Carrie Sue and Thad Jamison plan their first Christmas together, Thad must leave to track a gang of vicious bank robbers through the Montana wilderness. Will he return in time to receive a very special Christmas gift?...

  • Stardust and Shadows

    Moondust - 2

    Doctor Jana Greyson didn't know what to believe. The last thing she remembered was lying safely in the arms of her beloved, Commander Varian Saar, aboard the starship Wanderlust. But she'd awakened from a deep, drugged sleep to find herself again the...

  • Midnight Secrets

    A passion-filled story of love and adventure sweeping from the post-Civil War South to the sprawling Texas plains to the majestic mountains of Colorado ... as a spirited beauty risks all she cherishes in a daring deception... Her beloved Georgia r...

  • Taking Chances

    To Love Again

    Kirstin Lowrey wasn't accustomed to widowhood yet, but she was all too familiar with being at the beck and call of her three grown children and their children. Now, though, she had finally summoned the courage to start over again--a new job, anew...



  • The Last Viking Queen

    He saved her life and she gave him a throne. Joined together by royal decree, the Princess Alysa and her beloved Prince Gavin share a bond of power and passion that no man can tear asunder. But when their kingdom on the enchanted isle of Britain is a...

  • Chase the Wind

    Western Wind - 5

    Two government "Special Agents," one male, one female, are paired to bring down an arms runner. Before Bethany Wind and Navarro Breed set out from Tucson to intercept an illegal arms shipment to an Apache chief (not Geronimo), they will be "married" ...

  • Starlight and Splendor

    Moondust - 3

    MOONDUST AND MADNESS... STARDUST AND SHADOWS... novels of universal desire and intergalactic adventure... Now, the magic continues amidst the blaze of STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR... Many years have passed since Commander Varian Saar spirited the lovel...

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  • Destiny Mine

    JANELLE TAYLOR brings us the thrilling story of an Indian maiden who has been trained as a warrior--and the Cheyenne brave who is everything she desires . . . and everything that is forbidden. By the age of twenty, the maiden called Kionee can rid...

  • Anything for Love

    To Love Again

    As a naive college co-ed, Rachel Tims realized too late that Daniel Gaines had married her to spite his wealthy family. Although she learned to dress impeccably, speak softly, and smile like a lady, she'd never been accepted as a true Georgia ...

  • Moonbeams and Magic

    Moondust - 4

    Master storyteller Janelle Taylor takes romance to a new dimension with her tales of intergalactic adventure and heartsoaring desire. Now she brings us the dazzling tale of two star-crossed lovers...players in a dangerous game of intrigue and seducti...

  • Winds of Change

    in Love's Legacy

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • Three Complete Western Love Stories

  • Defiant Hearts

    As the Civil War divides a nation, a man and a woman -- enemies and lovers who can neither trust nor resist each other -- seek their destiny in the shadow of passion, treachery and betrayal. As Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee lead their opp...



  • Love With a Stranger

    Thirty-five-year-old Cassandra Grantham has not been lucky with the men in her life. Twice, she gave her heart, and twice she was badly burned. Now, still reeling from her second husband's betrayal, the financially strapped widow has sought sanctuary...

  • Lakota Winds

    Lakota Winds - 1

    When his wife and young son are slaughtered by Crow warriors, Wind Dancer is left embittered and lonely. Intent only on duty to his people, he never imagines that it will force him to take another woman into his life. Chumani too has lost much to ...

  • Straight from the Heart

    in Summer Love

    The efforts of a matchmaking friend leave wary Kimberly Harden strnded with a handsome attorney in a mountain cabin where sparks fly - and feelings catch flame....

  • By Candlelight

    THERE ARE SOME MEN A WOMAN CAN NEVER FORGIVE... Recently widowed, the mother of a teenaged daughter, Kate Rose has finally come into her own as head of her own talent agency. She has kept her past carefully hidden: the callous lover who abandoned...

  • Wild Winds

    Western Wind - 6

    Feisty and beautiful Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective--a daunting profession unheard of for a woman on her own in the wild West. And when her stepfather asks her to help his son escape the hangman's noose for ...

  • Someday Soon

    THE PAST HELD THE KEY TO THEIR PASSION. AND THEIR FUTURE. Cammie Miller's career hangs on convincing Oscar-winning actor Tyler Stovall to play the lead in the movie that would make her a star. But she would rather die unknown than succumb to beg...

  • Lakota Dawn

    Lakota Winds - 2

    Cloud Chaser was merely a boy of ten when a cruel twist of fate took him away from his family and changed his life forever. Now, after twelve years, he has returned home. Struggling to gain the trust and acceptance of his tribe, Cloud Chaser is ready...

  • Not Without You

    SOMETIMES, WHAT THE MIND CAN'T REMEMBER... Awakening in a hospital, Jarred Bryant has no recollection of the plane crash that nearly killed him. At first, all that remains familiar is the beautiful woman at his bedside: Kelsey--his soon to be ex-w...

  • Can't Stop Loving You

    SOMETIMES THE RIGHT DECISION... Fifteen years ago, preacher's daughter Mariel Rowan was a pregnant college student, determined to give her unborn child a better life - with or without Noah Lyons's blessing. Moments after placing her tiny newborn d...

  • In Too Deep

    Somebody Is Watching Her... Daddy's girl no more, single mom Jenny Holloway is determined to start over in Santa Fe without any help from her family or their millions. Miles from home, and from her menacing ex-husband, Jenny is caught off-guard by...



  • Night Moves

    Single D.C. caterer Jordan Curry has no idea what to do with a four-year-old boy, but she does know one thing: her best friend Phoebe says her son is in mortal danger. Before vanishing into a stormy night, Phoebe entrusts Jordan with her child's life...

  • Lakota Flower

    Lakota Winds - 3

    Threatened by the ever-encroaching Bluecoats, the Oglala Lakotas must strike hard and fast to ensure their tribe's survival. With the cunning and bravery befitting a chief's son, War Eagle leads his hunting party on a raid, killing many soldiers and ...

  • Don't Go Home

    DON'T SAY A WORD Newly divorced schoolteacher Mia Anderson is looking forward to exploring her identity without her ex-husband's criticism. But a frantic call from her much wilder twin Margot suddenly plunges Mia into her sister's life, which Marg...

  • Dying to Marry

    THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL... Holly Morrow is shocked to hear about her cousin Lizzie's sudden wedding to Dylan Dunhill--of the wealthy Dunhills, who simply don't mix with wrong-side-of-the-tracks kids like the Morrows. Stranger still, Lizzie has recei...

  • Watching Amanda

    Passion, danger, and the mysteries of the human heart--Janelle Taylor explores them all in her breathtaking bestsellers. In her latest novel of romantic suspense, a struggling young mother inherits a fortune--and becomes the target of a deadly obsess...

  • Haunting Olivia

    A FACE FROM THE PAST... Olivia Sedgwick never really knew her wealthy father, and she can't imagine why he bequeathed his summer cottage to her. It's a cozy little place, but Blueberry, Maine, holds only bittersweet memories for Olivia--heartrending...

  • Shadowing Ivy

    When it comes to romantic suspense,New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor pulls out all the stops. And in her new novel, filled with breathtaking passion and pulse-pounding danger, a young woman's life changes on her wedding day--when her g...

  • Cherokee Storm

    In this highly sensual tale of forbidden love and passionate surrender, New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor makes her much anticipated return to classic Native American romance on the frontier -- irresistible, fiery, and everlasting... ...

  • A Christmas Surprise

    An unexpected miracle or a risky dream? She never expected to get pregnant so soon after a health scare, and her work as a nurse makes her all too aware of the dangers. Will sharing her secret with her adoring husband create a holiday disaster -- or...

  • Necessary Evil

    Multi-award winning, New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor brings you a psychological thriller that will shock and enthrall you with its intensity as she takes you into the darkest regions of revenge and retribution. When Justice is blind ...

  • FOURTH & ONE

    Drew Hawkins is in the right and the wrong frame of mind to meet two women who will challenge and endanger all he knows and holds dear. In different ways, both coax and provoke him to break his rules against being duped by a woman and committing prof...

  • Moonbeam and Magic

  • Operation DFC

    I came to rescue my imprisoned brothers, but now I'm one. Arriving in Thailand for my first black-op, Operation DFC, as part of an elite team ready to act on recent intel that over a thousand men and/or their remains are still behind enemy lines...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janelle Taylor has published 62 books.

Janelle Taylor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Operation DFC, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Janelle Taylor, Savage Ecstasy, was published in September 1981.

Yes. Janelle Taylor has 5 series.
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