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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2002
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Full Series List in Order

Related Books

1 - The Journals of Lady X (Apr-1989)
2 - Her Ladyship's Man (Apr-1990)
3 - Bride's Leap (Jul-1991)

Related Books - 2

1 - A Heart's Disguise (Oct-1991)
2 - The Traitor's Daughter (Jul-1994)

Related Books - 3

1 - The Viscount's Vixen (Dec-1992)
2 - Belle of the Ball (May-1993)
3 - The Dutiful Duke (Feb-1994)
4 - A Proper Taming (Aug-1994)

Related Books - 4

1 - The Door Ajar (Nov-1995)
2 - Time's Tapestry (Aug-1996)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • A WOMAN OF POLISH ... "Neither nor" fit Hortensia Peters to a fare-thee-well. An aristocrat and the daughter of the royal cabinetmaker, she was neither sufficiently blueblooded for London's smart set nor earthy enough for her father's circle. Despai...



  • "I AM MORE THAN CAPABLE OF MANAGING MY OWN LIFE!" stormed Sara Belding as she showed Brant Deverleigh the door. At two and twenty, the headstrong young beauty had no use for a meddlesome guardian. Especially one whose dark gaze and mocking laughte...



  • AN EXCHANGE OF HEARTS Dark blonde hair, pale grey eyes and a slender figure graced Abigail Caldwell Ross with a china doll beauty, yet she was a woman of great strength. At twenty-five, Abby managed her late husband's cotton plantation efficiently...



  • WORDS FROM THE HEART Jacinda Malvern tossed back her tresses, dipped quill point in ink, and proceeded to pen her next novelette. Writing as "Lady X," Jacinda hoped one day to earn her way in the world. Any word overheard and all intimate acquaint...




  • A FESTIVE SEASON Justin Stockton considered himself a reasonable man, and he made every allowance for the Laurence family's recent bereavement during this Christmas season. Nevertheless the eldest girl Amanda seemed bent on infuriating him at ...



  • HER LIFE IS IN DANGER -- AND HER HEART AS WELL! It all seemed straight from a gothic novel: an unexpected inheritance, a haunted mansion, and now a strange series of accidents. As the new mistress of Bride's Leap, had Maggie Chambers now come in...



  • A WILLFUL WIDOW Katherine Delecourte's introduction to Lord Quentin Tregarren left the young widow perplexed. To her recollection, she had never made the acquaintance of this rather arrogant and disdainful gentleman, although he did bear a remar...



  • A MYSTERIOUS GENTLEMAN Bloody hell! Lord Lucien Seabrook swore. As an agent for His Mahesty's Government, he was close to capturing smugglers operating on the English coast - until the adventurous bluestocking Miss Elinore Denning and her broth...






  • A MANAGING MISS How could anyone accuse her of being a managing female, wondered Matty. She simply wanted what was best for those around her, and that included the most reserved Earl of Kirkswood. That vexing man claimed he bad no need of a wife, bu...



  • A GAME OF HEARTS Lovely Phillip Lambert's rather unseemly interest in Parliamentary politics has labeled her the most outrageous bluestocking in Britain. And now she has agreed to help fellow upstart Arabelle Portham snare a wealthy husband. ...



  • THE LADY CHANGES HER MIND At twenty-six, Belle Portham has turned a cold shoulder on many a would-be suitor, preferring to marry for position rather than risk her considerable inheritance for some handsome rake with an eve on her fortune. Lord Mar...



  • A LADY INCENSED Miss Thomasina "Nia" Pringle has resolved to champion the cause of an innocent child illegitimately sired and then abandoned by an unscrupulous aristocrat. And so the beautiful, high-spirited schoolteacher confronts the blackguard's ...



  • THE MOUSY MISS IS NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS! In the merry social whirl of Bath, Miss Elizabeth Compton was the perfect lady's companion: self-effacing and utterly forgettable. She'd simply perish if anyone uncovered her true identity as Lady Elizab...



  • A LADY IN NEED Orphaned and penniless, Portia Haverall is a comely young miss with few options. And an embarrassing encounter with oversized Lord Connor Dewhurst, Earl of Doncaster, further narrows her choices...to one. Forced by mishap and circumst...



  • Tourist Gillian Brooke enters a quaint antique shop... and is suddenly swept into Victorian London, where a handsome scientist could be her only hope of returning home... or her one, passionate reason to stay....



  • Nothing had gone as planned for newly-married Miranda Winthrop. On her wedding night, she discovered that her bridegroom wanted her fortune, not her heart. In tears, she fled…only to be instantly enveloped in a blaze of light! Suddenly, the 19th-ce...



  • A DARING EXPERIMENT Miss Penelope Grantham has been receiving grants for her scientific research under false pretenses--using a masculine name to apply for monies from a committee that would never fund a woman's work. But when she is summoned to app...



  • Now, the incomparable author of THE DOOR AJAR sends a spirited modern-day policewoman back through time to teach a bygone society and a bedazzled lord about crimes of passion...and makes her own discovery about affairs of the heart. It took a toug...






  • A DELICATE FLOWER Lady Caroline Burroughs is desperate. Her unscrupulous guardian is squandering away her inheritance, and now wants to gain complete control over her dwindling wealth by forcing her to wed his aged crony. But Caroline has found a s...



  • Desperate to recover the fake marble Roman head that her unprincipled uncle had sold to the Marchioness of Stanton, Rachel Manvers breaks into the Stanton estate and is discovered by the devastatingly handsome Marquis of Stanton, who happens to be in...



  • For years Lord Stephen Rockholme had been a rake of the first order, devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, if not to the women who so willingly provided it. The decision to rejoin his old regiment and depart for the peninsula meant only that he...



  • Evil is the first word that comes to mind when Anne Garthwicke arrives at Castle MacCairn. Duty bound to help her father appraise the holdings, she has no choice but to stay. And her trepidation deepens after meeting the laird. Proud and powerful, he...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joan Overfield has published 23 books.

Joan Overfield does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Shadowing, was published in February 2002.

The first book by Joan Overfield, The Cabinetmaker's Daughter, was published in June 1988.

Yes. Joan Overfield has 4 series.