Jo Goodman

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1984
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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About the Author

Jo Goodman has been publishing historical romances for over twenty years. She is the writer of popular series such as Compass Club, the Dennehy Sisters, and the Marshall Brothers. Her books are laced with names of familiar people and places. She has written set in Colonial America, the American West, Regency England and other important time periods. She currently lives with her family in Colliers, West Virginia where she is busy at work on her next novel for Zebra Books. When she has any spare time she enjoys reading Nora Roberts and Susan Elizabeth Phillips but avoids reading books in her historical romance genre.

Full Series List in Order

Bitter Springs

1 - The Last Renegade (Sep-2012)
2 - True to the Law (May-2013)
2.5 - Nat Church and the Runaway Bride (Jan-2014)
3 - In Want of a Wife (May-2014)

Compass Club

1 - Let Me Be the One (Sep-2002)
2 - Everything I Ever Wanted (Mar-2003)
3 - All I Ever Needed (Oct-2003)
4 - Beyond a Wicked Kiss (Aug-2004)

Cowboys of Colorado

1 - A Touch of Frost (Jun-2017)
2 - A Touch of Flame (Jun-2018)
3 - A Touch of Forever (Jun-2019)
4 - Stages of the Heart (May-2020)

Dennehy Sisters

1 - Wild Sweet Ecstasy // More Than a Touch // Only My Love (May-1992)
2 - Rogue's Mistress/My Heart's Desire (May-1993)
3 - Forever in My Heart (Jul-1994)
4 - Always in My Dreams (Jun-1995)
5 - Only In My Arms (Oct-1996)

Evening, Grantham

1 - A Season to Be Sinful (Aug-2005)
2 - One Forbidden Evening (Aug-2006)
3 - If His Kiss Is Wicked (Sep-2007)

Hamilton Family

1 - More Than You Know (May-2000)
2 - More Than You Wished (Apr-2001)

Marshall Brothers

1 - Midnight Princess (Nov-1989)
1 - Her Defiant Heart/Midnight Princess (Oct-2013)
2 - Passion's Sweet Revenge (Apr-1990)
2 - His Heart's Revenge/Passion's Sweet Revenge (Oct-2013)

McClellan Family

1 - Crystal Passion (Jul-1985)
2 - Seaswept Abandon (Sep-1986)
3 - Tempting Torment (Jul-1989)
4 - Tidewater Promise (Nov-1991)

McKenna Brothers

1 - This Gun for Hire (Apr-2015)
2 - The Devil You Know (May-2016)

Reidsville

1 - Never Love A Lawman (Sep-2009)
2 - Marry Me (Dec-2010)

Thorne Brothers

1 - My Steadfast Heart (Mar-1997)
2 - My Reckless Heart (Feb-1998)
3 - With All My Heart (Apr-1999)

War of 1812

1 - Passion's Bride // The Captain's Lady (Aug-1984)
2 - Velvet Night (May-1987)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Passion's Bride // The Captain's Lady

    War of 1812 - 1

    "I am your prisoner," Alexis murmured bitterly when she found herself aboard an American naval vessel. But no man could hold her prisoner for long, not even the lean, green-eyed Captain Tanner Cloud whose slow, sensuous touch aroused a fire of passio...

  • Crystal Passion

    McClellan Family - 1

    RAPTURE'S BRILLIANCE When Ashley awoke from her drugged sleep, she found herself in the bedchamber of a dark-haired, steel-eyed stranger. Before she could escape, his powerful hands had pinned her to the bed -- before she could scream, his lips ...

  • Seaswept Abandon

    McClellan Family - 2

    FLOODED WITH DESIRE When green-eyed Rae McClellan agreed to be a courier for the Colonies, she never dreamed that on her very first mission she'd coldly kill one man-and hotly love another. But one thing led to another in the boisterous Redcoat ta...

  • Velvet Night

    War of 1812 - 2

    HE BETRAYED HER FATHER Ever since she was a girl, flame-haired Kenna Dunne had hated handsome Rhys Canning for lying about killing her father. Now, even though she hadn't seen him since the war ended, the vengeance seeking beauty swore to make t...

  • Violet Fire

    INNOCENCE LOST Shannon Kilmartin looked up at her handsome rescuer and shrank from the desire in his deep brown eyes. Had he saved her from drowning only to ravish her? After fleeing the advances of her cruel stepfather, Shannon had vowed never to...

  • Scarlet Lies

    BEAUTIFUL SCHEMER Brooklyn Hancock was no stranger to dangerous situations. But finding herself at the mercy of a man she'd swindled was enough to make the blue-eyed adventuress a bit nervous. Particularly since her would-be mark was intimidat...

  • Tempting Torment

    McClellan Family - 3

    SINFUL PLEASURES It seemed like a good idea. The handsome American was dying anyway. Why not marry him and flee England in the guise of Noah McClellan's widow? But Jessa Winter hadn't counted on Noah's will to live. Nor on his smouldering desires on...

  • Midnight Princess

    Marshall Brothers - 1

    UNDER HIS SPELL When a bedraggled waif arrived half-dead on the doorstep of his Fifth Avenue mansion, handsome newspaper publisher Christian Marshall didn't know what came over him to let her stay on as a housemaid. The hard-drinking, short-tempered...

  • Passion's Sweet Revenge

    Marshall Brothers - 2

    SHE OWED HIM HER LOVE Some things never changed. The name on the playbill at Wallack's Theatre said "Katy Dakota," but for Logan Marshall no amount of face paint could disguise the unforgettable beauty of Mary Catherine McCleary, the girl who'd betr...



  • Sweet Fire

    Zebra Lovegram

    SHE LONGED TO LOVE HIM Told all her life that she was plain, Lydia Chadwick knew no man would come courting because of her looks. So it was with some suspicion that the shy, sweet San Francisco heiress woke one morning with a tall, dark, dangerous...

  • Tidewater Promise

    in Christmas Rendezvous
    McClellan Family - 4

    Virginia beauty Courtney McClellan has lost her faith in happily-ever-after...until a childhood friendship blossoms into a once-in-a-lifetime love. ...

  • Wild Sweet Ecstasy // More Than a Touch // Only My Love

    Dennehy Sisters - 1

    SHE COULDN'T IGNORE HIM The gang of train robbers swore they could smell a reporter a mile away. Maybe it was her perfume that saved Mary Michael Dennehy from the brutal fate of her newspaper colleagues on the train to Colorado. Instead of being k...

  • Rogue's Mistress/My Heart's Desire

    Dennehy Sisters - 2
    Zebra Lovegram

    A MAN SHE COULD NOT RESIST They said her father was dead, but Rennie Dennehy refused to believe that. Vowing to uncover the truth behind his strange disappearance, Rennie headed to the wilds of Colorado-and the only man who could help her. Bounty ...

  • Liberty Christmas

    in A Christmas Caress

    Answering an ad for a mail-order bride is the most daring thing Philadelphia-born Liberty has ever done. But the snowy wilds of Montana are warm compared to the icy welcome she receives from her husband-to-be. Is Liberty fated to feel lonely and unlo...

  • Forever in My Heart

    Dennehy Sisters - 3

    FOREVER IN MY DREAMS... Injured and lost, Mary Margaret Dennehy stumbled out into the night. When she awoke, the New York heiress remembered nothing of where she'd been -- except for a haunting dream that filled her with hungry longing... FOREVER...

  • Always in My Dreams

    Dennehy Sisters - 4

    THE SINS OF A FATHER The youngest daughter of a New York financier, Skye Dennehy didn't run from danger; instead, she embraced it. And now her powerful father had asked her to spy on a reclusive inventor whose latest creation could change the world....

  • My True Love

    in A Gift of Joy

    Christmas in San Francisco brings a make-believe betrothal to a reluctant bridegroom and an even more reluctant bride. It will take faith, trust and the magic of love to heal two wary hearts...and make a cherished dream come true......

  • The Baby Dream

    in Baby Dreams

    In Jo Goodman's THE BABY DREAM, a stranger named Jake may unlock the secret of Annie's birth...and her lover's heart....

  • Only In My Arms

    Dennehy Sisters - 5

    A MAN ABOUT TO DIE... A WOMAN READY TO LIVE... Torn between devotion and a secret yearning for adventure and fulfillment, Mary Dennehy makes her choice. Shocking her family, she leaves the convent and her cloistered existence behind and sets out ...



  • My Steadfast Heart

    Thorne Brothers - 1

    Colin Thorne kept a wall around his heart no one had ever breached. His two younger brothers were lost to him, perhaps forever, and now a dark mission of revenge had brought the ruthless ship captain to England. Penniless aristocrat Mercedes Leydo...

  • My Reckless Heart

    Thorne Brothers - 2

    Decker Thorne's carefree ways have done little to impress his employer, Jonna Remington, the poised and unflappable owner of Remington Shipping. But when he captains her best ship on a record-breaking voyage and saves her life in the same day, their ...

  • With All My Heart

    Thorne Brothers - 3

    Grey Janeway had no past, at least one he could remember. But in the new West, a man's past didn't matter. What he made of himself did. And in the glittering gold-rush city of San Francisco, Grey was on his way to building his empire as the o...

  • More Than You Know

    Hamilton Family - 1

    MORE THAN HE KNEW Rand Hamilton vows to rebuild his Charleston plantation with the only means left to him: a long-lost treasure that has lured and cursed two families for centuries. But to finance his expedition, he must agree to the terms of his we...

  • More Than You Wished

    Hamilton Family - 2

    IF THIS WAS LOVE... Reclaiming her family's Carolina rice plantation from her ruthless stepfather was Bria Hamilton's only wish -- and she was taking a chance by hiring Northerner Lucas Kincaid to help her. With her own painful scars still...

  • Let Me Be the One

    Compass Club - 1

    In bestselling author Jo Goodman's captivating new quartet, you'll meet the four intriguing gentlemen of the Compass Club -- North, South, East, and West -- as they find adventure, excitement, and, of course, romance. Now, in book one of this...

  • A Basket Of Magic

    in Magically Delicious

    When shy, quiet Abby Winslow travels to the isolated home of recluse Dylan Kincannon on a whim, she never expects to find the usually glowering mountain man desperately weak from illness. The poor man could perish unless Abby's herb-infused goodies c...

  • Everything I Ever Wanted

    Compass Club - 2

    Bestselling author Jo Goodman weaves breathless sensuality, colorful history, and a dash of suspense into her captivating new quartet featuring the daring gentlemen of the Compass Club. Now follow Matthew Forrester, Earl of Southerton -- otherwise kn...

  • All I Ever Needed

    Compass Club - 3

    No one writes romance like Jo Goodman, especially with her magnificent quartet featuring the irresistible men of the Compass Club. In her third installment she holds readers spellbound as Gabriel Whitney, known as East to his friends, enters the life...

  • Beyond a Wicked Kiss

    Compass Club - 4

    Wicked games and forbidden desires are the order of the day in the latest installment of bestselling author Jo Goodman's Compass Club quartet, as Evan Marchman -- West to his friends -- undertakes a dangerous mission that leads to unexpected temp...



  • A Season to Be Sinful

    Evening, Grantham - 1

    Alexander Grantham, Viscount Sheridan, is stunned to find three young boys at his door, demanding he right the wrongs of an incident that occurred earlier that evening when he thwarted a determined thief. When he discovers his wily pickpocket is a wo...

  • One Forbidden Evening

    Evening, Grantham - 2

    In USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman's sizzling new tale of wicked desire and daring liaisons, the most unlikely couple embarks on an adventure fraught with danger -- and a passion too powerful to deny... As a masked ball reaches its fe...

  • If His Kiss Is Wicked

    Evening, Grantham - 3

    USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman delivers the unforgettable story of a beautiful young woman who believes someone wants to kill her. Only one man can reveal if she's truly in peril --or if she's going mad. But will his forbidden kiss l...

  • The Price of Desire

    USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman delivers a deliciously wicked tale of forbidden desire that knows no limits... Olivia Cole is devastated to learn that her ne'er-do-well brother has promised her to the operator of a London gaming hall as p...

  • Never Love A Lawman

    Reidsville - 1

    USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman delivers a thrilling tale of small town greed that may have big time consequences -- unless two strangers open their hearts to a highly unconventional arrangement... Rachel Bailey may seem like just a beauti...

  • Marry Me

    Reidsville - 2

    HER HEART WAS LOCKED AWAY Rhyne Abbott is fierce, brave, and used to a life of isolation on her father's spread on the outskirts of Reidsville, Colorado. But when, overcome with sickness, she collapses, she knows she must return to town if she is to...

  • Kissing Comfort

    THIS CAN'T BE LOVE... With a head for numbers and a fiery spirit, Miss Comfort Elizabeth Kennedy would much rather be elbow-deep in the family banking business than follow the path expected of an unattached young woman: But when Comfort's best frien...

  • A Place Called Home

    When Thea Wyndham and Mitchell Baker learn they've been named joint guardians for their late friends' three children, they're little more than acquaintances. Barely polite acquaintances, at that. Something about Mitch's forthright int...

  • The Last Renegade

    Bitter Springs - 1

    SHE HIRED HIM TO PROTECT HER TOWN As the owner of the Pennyroyal Saloon and Hotel, Lorraine Berry is privy to almost everything that goes on in Bitter Springs, Wyoming -- including the bloodshed plaguing its citizens. With all of the good men dying ...

  • True to the Law

    Bitter Springs - 2

    He was on the hunt for a runaway beauty “Find her” is the only instruction that private detective Cobb Bridger receives from Richard Mackey. The scion of a wealthy Chicago family, Mackey is desperate to know the whereabouts of the woman who d...



  • Her Defiant Heart/Midnight Princess

    Marshall Brothers - 1

    When Civil War veteran and hero Christian Marshall attempts to aid a mysterious young woman escaping a New York City asylum, he is reminded that good intentions count for nothing and painful memories are best drown in a good bottle of whiskey and the...

  • His Heart's Revenge/Passion's Sweet Revenge

    Marshall Brothers - 2

    Logan Marshall is not looking for the girl who betrayed him as a Union spy during the war, but when their paths cross again, he is not about to let her go. All grown up, Mary Catherine McCleary is now the toast of the New York theater scene as th...

  • Nat Church and the Runaway Bride

    Bitter Springs - 2.5

    Felicity Ravenwood was raised to be independent-minded, but when this runaway bride opposes her father's choices, it is up to Nat Church to bring her around. But he doesn't count on springing her from jail, holding her hostage, or falling head over b...

  • In Want of a Wife

    Bitter Springs - 3

    When his mail-order bride arrives from New York, a Wyoming rancher gets more than he bargained for. SHE HAS NOWHERE LEFT TO TURN Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects, esp...

  • This Gun for Hire

    McKenna Brothers - 1

    He's got a job to do... Former army cavalryman Quill McKenna takes pride in protecting the most powerful man in Stonechurch, Colorado: Mr. Ramsey Stonechurch himself. But the mine owner has enemies, and after several threats on his life, mines,...

  • The Devil You Know

    McKenna Brothers - 2

    WHAT HE DOESN’T KNOW... After a horse drags him through the countryside, Israel McKenna awakes bruised and battered in a field in Pancake Valley, Colorado. He can recall where he came from and where he was going, but the memory of how he came t...

  • A Touch of Frost

    Cowboys of Colorado - 1

    RESCUE ME After his train is robbed at gunpoint, Remington Frost awakens from a blow to find the bandits gone…along with the woman he was shadowing for protection. No stranger to risk, Remington will do what it takes to bring Phoebe Apple to saf...

  • A Touch of Flame

    Cowboys of Colorado - 2

    USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman returns to the gunslinging outlands of A Touch of Frost with a sizzling new romance where the new town doctor learns there's nothing she likes better than a run-in with the law. Dr. E. Ridley Woodhouse i...

  • A Touch of Forever

    Cowboys of Colorado - 3

    A marriage of convenience turns into a sweetly seductive love-off-the-rails romance in the latest Cowboys of Colorado novel from USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman. Lily Salt has sworn off men. After finally gaining her independence, the last...

  • The Captain's Lady

    Revenge, Love, and the Struggle of a Fledgling Nation Collide in The Captain's Lady by Jo Goodman--Circa 1812, Island of Tortola; Washington--It's revenge that Alex Danty seeks after British Naval officer, Captain Travers, brings terror and murder to...



  • Stages of the Heart

    Cowboys of Colorado - 4

    Love guides even the most cautious of hearts home as USA Today bestselling author Jo Goodman returns to the trails of the Colorado frontier. Experience has taught Laurel to be suspicious of the men who pass through Morrison Station. She's been...

  • Ramsey Rules

    Ramsey Masters is the Ridge Outlet Theft Prevention Specialist, that is, she spends her days stopping shoplifters. While catching someone stuffing a PS4 controller into their pants or a ham into their handbag is more amusing than it is dangerous, the...

Award-Winning Books by Jo Goodman

If His Kiss Is Wicked
2007 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Buried Treasure
2007 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best European Historical
2007 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Hero
2007 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Romance
This Gun for Hire
2015 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Historical Romance Not Set in the U.K.


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Jo Goodman has published 51 books.

Jo Goodman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ramsey Rules, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Jo Goodman, Passion's Bride // The Captain's Lady, was published in August 1984.

Yes. Jo Goodman has 12 series.
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