Jennifer Blake

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Jennifer Blake
  • Bibliography:
    61 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1977
  • Latest Book:
    January 2017
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About the Author

Patricia Ann Ponder was born on March 9, 1942 near Goldonna, Louisiana, USA. At 15, she married with Mr. Maxwell and they formed, but at 21, she needed to be something more than a housewife and she began writing, she sold her first book at 27. She start writing gothic novels with her real name, Patricia Maxwell; she wrote one book in collaboration as Elizabeth Trehearne and she singed a murder mystery and a romantic suspense story as her maiden name, Patricia Ponder. When the gothic genre began to decay, she began to publish only romance genre, contemporany romances as Maxine Patrick and historical romances as Jennifer Blake, the only pseudonym that she uses now. She gained New York Times Best Seller status since 1977, with "Love's wild desire". An international best seller as well, she has been published in 18 languages with worldwide sales approaching 30 million. She was honored with the position as Writer-in-Residence for the University of Northeastern Louisiana, and is a charter, and honorary, member of Romance Writers of America.

Since 1998, Patricia and her husband have resided in a lakeside Caribbean-styled retreat in North Louisiana where they often entertain friends and family.

Full Series List in Order

Italian Billionaires

1 - The Tuscan's Revenge Wedding (Apr-2013)
2 - The Venetian's Daring Seduction (May-2013)
3 - The Amalfitano's Bold Abduction (Dec-2013)

Louisiana Gentlemen

1 - Kane (Mar-1998)
2 - Luke (Mar-1999)
3 - Roan (Jul-2000)
4 - Clay (Jul-2001)
4.5 - Adam (Jun-2002)
5 - Wade (Sep-2002)

Louisiana History Collection

1 - Fierce Eden (Jul-1985)
2 - Embrace and Conquer (Jan-1981)
3 - Louisiana Dawn (Sep-1987)
4 - Spanish Serenade (Jun-1990)
5 - Perfume of Paradise (Mar-1988)
6 - Prisoner of Desire (Aug-1986)
7 - Southern Rapture (Mar-1987)

Louisiana Knights

1 - Lancelot of the Pines (Oct-2016)
2 - Galahad in Jeans (Nov-2016)
3 - Tristan on a Harley (Dec-2016)
4 - Christmas Knight (Jan-2017)

Love and Adventure Collection

1 - The Storm and the Splendor (Jan-1979)
2 - Love's Wild Desire (Jun-1977)
3 - Surrender in Moonlight (May-1984)
5 - Golden Fancy (Nov-1980)

Masters at Arms

1 - Challenge To Honor (Jan-2005)
2 - Dawn Encounter (Jan-2006)
3 - Rogue's Salute (Jan-2007)
4 - Guarded Heart (Feb-2008)
5 - Gallant Match (Feb-2009)
6 - Triumph in Arms (Feb-2010)

Royal Princes of Ruthenia

1 - Royal Seduction (Jul-1983)
2 - Royal Passion (Jan-1986)

The Three Graces

1 - By His Majesty's Grace (Aug-2011)
2 - By Grace Possessed (Sep-2011)
3 - Seduced by Grace (Oct-2011)

Book List in Order: 61 titles

  • Love's Wild Desire

    Love and Adventure Collection - 2

    IN A LOCKED ROOM IN A NOTORIOUS NEW ORLEANS MANSION Catherine first learned what it was to fight against the power of a man's aroused desires and her own awakened hungers--and to lose all pride, all pretense, all control IN A GREAT PLANTATION HOU...

  • The Storm and the Splendor

    Love and Adventure Collection - 1

    FORTUNE'S CHILD...DESTINY'S WOMAN Julia Dupre was the proud belle of New Orleans when she first fell under the mocking gaze of Captain Rudyard Thorpe. His self-assurance angered her, his insolence enraged her, yet he ws the one man who could help ...

  • Tender Betrayal

    A FLAMING ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH Beautiful young Melanie Johnston had every reason to hate Roland Donovan. It was this man who caused the death of her beloved grandfather. It was he who possessed her in a night of mischief and madness, forever stain...

  • Golden Fancy

    Love and Adventure Collection - 5

    SHE HAD ESCAPED THE MORMON WAGON TRAIN and the clutches of the fanatic Elder Greer, who called his wanton desires the "will of God:' She had been saved from death on the desolate prairie by the handsome, cynical Ward Dunbar who wanted only her body, ...

  • Embrace and Conquer

    Louisiana History Collection - 2

    A SPANISH KING RULED NEW ORLEANS... AN IRISH PRIVATEER COMMANDED FELICITE'S PASSIONS... She was the toast of New Orleans, daughter of a rebel merchant. Then Lt. Colonel Morgan McCormack blazed into her life. With a ruthlessness that left he...

  • Royal Seduction

    Royal Princes of Ruthenia - 1

    She didn't know what would become of her if her captor tired of her. But until then, she was a slave to the ecstacies of passion.... She was living a quiet life with her aunt in the steamy countryside near New Orleans. Her name was Angeline. S...

  • Midnight Waltz

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Arranged marriages among the Creole aristocracy of Louisiana were common, and beautiful Amalie knew she was fortunate that her husband, Julien Declouet, was so kind and attentive. But ever since her wedding night, Julien had refused to touch her. Ama...

  • Surrender in Moonlight

    Love and Adventure Collection - 3

    HE WAS LIKE A FIRE IN HER BLOOD. SHE WAS LIKE A FEVER IN HIS SOUL. From the moment they met and made love in a strange, deserted house, Lorna Forrester, a twenty-year-old New Orleans beauty, and Roman Cazenave, a daring blockade runner, were obses...

  • Fierce Eden

    Louisiana History Collection - 1

    ELISE WAS SURE ALL MEN WERE BRUTES. THEN SHE MET REYNAUD CHAVALIER... A widow at twenty-five, beautiful Elise Laffont had been married to a beast of a man who left her with a strong aversion to sex. She was quite content to manage her small Loui...



  • Royal Passion

    Royal Princes of Ruthenia - 2

    MARA HAD A DESPERATE PLAN OF DECEPTION THAT WOULD IGNITE INTO ROYAL PASSION Amid the color and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. She was the daug...

  • Prisoner of Desire

    Louisiana History Collection - 6

    AS MARDI GRAS FLARED IN THE GLITTERING STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS, ECSTASY BLAZED IN A SMALL, STARK ROOM.... To prevent the duel she was sure would kill her sister's fiance, Anya Hamilton took as her prisoner the magnificently handsome Ravel Duralde. ...

  • Southern Rapture

    Louisiana History Collection - 7

    They said he was a murderer, but his kiss was warm and sure, tantalizing in its sweetness. They called him an outlaw and a rebel, but he aroused in her a passion she had never dreamed possible... Lettie Mason, a proper yet headstrong Boston school...

  • Louisiana Dawn

    Louisiana History Collection - 3

    WHITE HOT PASSION BENEATH A BURNING SKY... Anyone could see why Cyrene Nolte's two brothers were fiercely protective of her. Her golden hair, her creamy skin, and the desire so obviously coursing through her young body made her easy prey for the r...

  • Perfume of Paradise

    Louisiana History Collection - 5

    Terrified of her impending marriage, beautiful Elene Larpent scents her body with a Haitian voodoo perfume guaranteed to bewitch the wealthy landowner and ensure his devotion. But just moments into the wedding, a violent slave uprising interrupts the...

  • Love and Smoke

    Poised and elegant, Riva Staulet's cool beauty still turns heads -- whether she's attending a charity ball, hosting lavish parties at her antebellum plantation house, or presiding over the vast business left to her by her late husband, the head of on...

  • Spanish Serenade

    Louisiana History Collection - 4

    It would take a rare combination of hatred, daring, and curiosity to bring the notorious brigand El Leon to her moonlit veranda...and even more to lure him to accept her bold request. But beautiful, headstrong Pilar Sandoval y Serna will pay any pric...

  • The Secret of Mirror House

    THE CHOICE Amelia Harveston was very young, very beautiful, and very much alone. The invitation to come and live with her cousins at Mirror House, the plantation home built by her grandfather, saved her from the poverty she faced after her mother ...

  • Joy & Anger

    Daughter of one of Hollywood's legendary directors, Julie Bullard is fast making her mark as one of the film industry's hottest young women directors. Filming on location in the Louisiana bayou, her latest project is a high-budget film that will make...

  • Wildest Dreams

    When Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, she takes with her the secret formula to a legendary perfume believed to have been worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine--that is now the most desperately sought perfume on the market. Joletta's only...



  • Arrow to the Heart

    Around two of the most wonderful characters she has ever created, Jennifer Blake spins an utterly passionate story set within a steamy, languorous time and place: nineteenth-century Louisiana, where a Southern version of the medieval court of love st...

  • Dream Lover

    in A Dream Come True

    The Topaz Man personally introduces in "A Dream Come True" his favorite stories of dreams that really do come true. From a woman thrown back to 1844 New Orleans, to a Western dream vacation, to a female passenger and boat captain's romance on the hig...

  • Shameless

    Camilla Greenley Hutton's cunning soon-to-be-ex-husband has discovered that she may be the sole heir to the local mill - worth millions if its operating owner, Reid Sayers, sells out to an eager conglomerate. But there is danger in the air. Someone i...

  • The Warlock's Daughter

    in Stardust

    Fearing her own inherited powers, a warlock's innocent daughter vows never to love --- but a dark and dashing man of mystery proves to be more than her match....

  • Besieged Heart

    in Secrets of the Heart

    Five short stories follow themes of hidden secrets and revealing love and include the works of popular romance authors Jennifer Blake, Madeline Baker, Georgina Gentry, Shirl Henke, and Patricia Rice. ...

  • Reservations

    in Honeymoon Suite

    When a gorgeous male escort is sent ot her room by mistake, a young woman plays along, never dreaming what her innocent charade will lead to....

  • Out of the Dark

    in Purrfect Romance

    He loves without question. He is strong and silent, tender yet tough. He's all any woman would ever want. In a cat, that is. Now three bestselling authors are brought together in this wonderful collection of historical romances filled with fiery pass...

  • Tigress

    Only one man dared trap and tame her... It begins on a dark, scented patio in Rio, with the rich rhythms of a samba... and the warm caress of a masked stranger with magic in his touch. It sweeps from Rio to New Orleans in an erotic haze of seduction...

  • Silver-Tongued Devil

    THE ANGEL -- He saved her life, then made her his prisoner. Now Renold Harden is demanding his due -- as Angelica Carew's new husband. How easy it would be to surrender to Renold's name, his protection, his passion. But there is something unreal abou...

  • Pieces of Dreams

    in The Quilting Circle

    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Jennifer Blake's Pieces of Dreams It's 1843, four brides...



  • A Vision of Sugar Plums

    in A Joyous Season

    Meghan Castle is a real Scrooge about the holidays --- until she finds an abandoned baby in her store on Christmas Eve. Change is certainly in the air --- especially when late shopper Rick Wallman walks in with yet another delightful holiday surprise...

  • Garden of Scandal

    Laurel Bancroft has lived for years like a recluse, isolating herself from a town that has branded her a murderer. But now, convinced people have finally forgotten, she is ready to resume her life. Then Laurel meets Alec Stanton. Hired to help he...

  • Love in Three-Quarter Time

    in Unmasked

    On a warm spring night in a New Orleans Garden District mansion, the pick of society are gathering. Masquerading as Legendary Lovers, they have come to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Duchaise masquerade ball. Charles and Millicent Duch...

  • Kane

    Louisiana Gentlemen - 1

    Down in Louisiana, family comes first. In the delta town of Turn-Coupe, that's the rule the Benedicts live by. So when a beautiful redhead starts paying a little too much attention to Kane Benedict's grandfather, Kane decides to find out what the wom...

  • John "Rip" Peterson

    in Southern Gentlemen

    In some small Southern towns the old ways still exist. Breeding counts and the old boys hold court. Everyone has a place and no one's supposed to cross the line. But rules are made to be broken... In Southern Gentlemen, authors Jennifer Blake and Emi...

  • Luke

    Louisiana Gentlemen - 2

    Luke Benedict figures he's the only one in Turn-Coupe, Louisiana, who can save novelist Aril Halstead from someone intent on revenge. If only he could get April to cooperate. Years ago, Luke had let April down -- in the worst possible way. She's ...

  • Stone Shadow

    Stone Shadow draws you inevitably against your will into the mind of serial killer Daniel Bunkowski, also known as "Chaingang," a brutal rapist and torturer of women. A captive victim fortunate enough to escape his deadly clutches brings his twisted ...

  • Roan

    Louisiana Gentlemen - 3

    Sheriff Roan Benedict comes from a family of hardheaded men who have a habit of rescuing and falling for equally hardheaded women. And sure enough, he's falling for a woman he just shot.... This mysterious stranger just helped rob a convenience st...

  • Clay

    Louisiana Gentlemen - 4

    How far will a mother go to save her child? What will a man do to protect the woman he loves? Janna Kerr's eight-year-old daughter is dangerously ill and she knows her last hope is an unscrupulous doctor who -- for the right price -- will help he...

  • Adam

    in With a Southern Touch
    Louisiana Gentlemen - 4.5

    Jennifer Blake, Heather Graham and Diana Palmer, well-loved voices of romance fiction, bring you three new stories of sultry Southern romance. With a Southern Touch will renew your faith in the power of love. An eighth-generation Louisianian, Jenn...



  • Wade

    Louisiana Gentlemen - 5

    Wade Benedict has a job to do: infiltrate a treacherous land and rescue Chloe Madison. It was her father's dying wish -- and Wade is taking it personally. The problem is, this stubborn, angry, and courageous woman doesn't want to be saved. Her rag...

  • Challenge To Honor

    Masters at Arms - 1

    They were professionally trained, highly skilled men of valor, but the roguish, dangerous sword masters were not always respectable... When her brother challenges New Orleans's most infamous swordsman to a duel, Celina Vallier boldly confronts his...

  • Dawn Encounter

    Masters at Arms - 2

    They are perhaps the most dangerous men in New Orleans, skilled swordsmen who play by no rules but their own -- heroes to many, wicked to some, irresistible to the women they love... Lisette Moisant is a widow, courtesy of the swordsmanship of Cai...

  • Rogue's Salute

    Masters at Arms - 3

    They are the notorious swordsmen of New Orleans, bound by a brotherhood of loyalty, skill and courage--infamous by day, dangerous at night, loyal only to each other and the women they love... At ease making life-and-death decisions between breaths, ...

  • Guarded Heart

    Masters at Arms - 4
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    THEY ARE THE PRIDE-AND SCOURGE-OF NEW ORLEANS: A DASHING FRATERNITY OF MASTER SWORDSMEN WHOSE INFAMY IS MATCHED ONLY BY THEIR SKILL IN BATTLE, THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO EACH OTHER AND THEIR PASSION FOR THE FAIRER SEX... The New Year begins with a lady's...

  • Gallant Match

    Masters at Arms - 5
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    Kerr Wallace has spent years studying swordplay, preparing to challenge his sworn enemy and avenge his brother's death. The scoundrel Rouillard, now living in Mexico as a profiteer, has decided to take a wife, and the lady requires an escort to Verac...

  • Triumph in Arms

    Masters at Arms - 6
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    Once a starveling bootblack, Christien Lenoir has risen to become the sword master known as Faucon, the Falcon. When a desperate gambler stakes his plantation in a late-night card game, sharp-eyed Christien antes up. For he wants River's Edge -- and ...

  • By His Majesty's Grace

    The Three Graces - 1

    The Three Graces of Graydon are well-born sisters bearing an ominous curse: any man betrothed to them without love is doomed to die. Much to her chagrin, Lady Isabel Milton has been given to Earl Rand Braesford -- a reward from the Tudor king for ...

  • By Grace Possessed

    The Three Graces - 2

    She is one of the accursed Three Graces of Graydon -- if she marries not for love, her betrothed will soon meet his end.... The Tudor king issues Lady Catherine Milton a most unusual command: seduce Scottish loyalist Ross Dunbar. The son of an orn...

  • Seduced by Grace

    The Three Graces - 3

    The youngest of the fabled Three Graces of Graydon is waylaid from her bridal cortege, preserving one man from the notorious curse. But another may yet fall... Hers to command -- in all but love. When Lady Marguerite Milton is abducted by the e...



  • Royal Hunt

  • The Tuscan's Revenge Wedding

    Italian Billionaires - 1

    Revenge can indeed be sweet... When her brother's car plunges off a cliff with him and his fiancée in it, Amanda Davies gets the news personally from the fiancée's brother. The devastatingly handsome Italian businessman appears in Atlanta and wh...

  • The Venetian's Daring Seduction

    Italian Billionaires - 2

    t was supposed to be a seduction of guile, but just who was doing the seducing? Celina inherited both the cottage where her beloved grandmother painted her famous watercolors and a faded journal that hints at a long-ago Venetian love affair. It's ...

  • Holding the Tigress

    She succumbed to desire with a masked stranger during Rio’s licentious carnaval…but will it lead to love or hate?Jessica Meredith, acting CEO of the shipping company founded by her grandfather, strives to prevent its hostile takeover by Brazilian...

  • The Court of the Thorn Tree

    Lovely Margaret Stewart is a proud and spirited lady -- too proud to accept the unwilling hospitality of her only living relative. But in strait-laced New Orleans early in the 19th century, there were few means for a respectable young woman to make ...

  • The Amalfitano's Bold Abduction

    Italian Billionaires - 3

    Dana Marsden's first mistake is stopping on the fog-shrouded Amalfi Coast road to help clear a traffic jam. Her second is rescuing the valuable cat that appears out of the mist. And the third? Trusting the handsome Italian who comes to her aid when h...

  • Lancelot of the Pines

    Louisiana Knights - 1

  • Galahad in Jeans

    Louisiana Knights - 2

  • Tristan on a Harley

    Louisiana Knights - 3

  • Christmas Knight

    Louisiana Knights - 4

  • The Lonely Little Lion

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Fitting in can be one of the most difficult parts of life.In this vibrant children's book a lonely little lion is mistreated and cast away for being perceived as a mean and scary predator. Out of desperation to be friends with all of the other animal...

  • Raising the Roof

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by Jennifer Blake

Guarded Heart
2008 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- American Historical Romance
Louisiana Dawn
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Colonial Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jennifer Blake has published 61 books.

Jennifer Blake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Christmas Knight, was published in January 2017.

The first book by Jennifer Blake, Love's Wild Desire, was published in June 1977.

Yes. Jennifer Blake has 8 series.
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