Karen Young

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1983
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The O'Connors

1 - Roses and Rain (Jul-1994)
2 - Shadows in the Mist (Aug-1994)
3 - The Promise (Sep-1994)

Multi-Author Series List

9 Months Later

5 - Having His Baby (Feb-1996)

Family Man

A Father's Heart (May-1998)

Women Who Dare

32 - Sugar Baby (Oct-1996)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Silhouette Romance - 212
    Silhouette Romance UK - 212

    TOMORROW'S PASSION Julie Dunaway was glad that her job at a Boston engineering firm left her no time for love. But when a dynamic new consultant turned out to be her estranged husband, Alex Brandt, Julie knew she was trapped. Dark and magnetic,...

  • Irresistible Intruder

    Silhouette Romance - 284
    Silhouette Romance UK - 284

    HE WAS COMING BACK TO TOWN. Kate Langford had never really forgotten him. Eight years ago, when she had been an impetuous girl of seventeen, Chase Jamison had ignited the passion in her soul. Then he had left her father's company under mysterious ...

  • A Wilder Passion

    Silhouette Romance - 380

    OUT OF CONTROL Now that she was co-anchorwoman of the evening news, Lacey Wilder's life was far from boring. Standing in the rain, waiting for a helicopter to interview victims of an oil rig explosion was all in a day's work. But what she didn't e...

  • Darling Detective

    Silhouette Romance - 433

    THE BUSINESS OF LOVE Sidney James loved her job. She was, as her boss at the Peabody Bank said, one of the best financial sleuths around. Now she'd been assigned to monitor the muddled finances of Rutledge Enterprises. It was the kind of task s...

  • The Forever Kind

    Silhouette Romance - 481

    DUTY CALLS In the two years after her husband's death, Jill Sinclair had managed to build a new life for herself and her four-year-old son, Josh. She was content, and the unhappy memories were fading. Police Captain Sam Halloran was determined ...

  • Maggie Mine

    Silhouette Romance - 517

    ROMANTIC AND THE CYNIC Maggie Taylor believed in love, marriage and happily ever after. Cash McKenzie was a dyed-in-the-wool cynic, totally disillusioned with romance. Only his young daughter was capable of softening his heart. Until Maggie kno...

  • Sarah's Choice

    Silhouette Romance - 575

    BENEATH THE SURFACE By her own definition, Sarah Carmichael's life was "blah." So, she transformed herself--new clothes, new hairstyle and a new job in a new city. She would miss her friend, Brian Savage--a nice, predictable guy, but not exactly h...

  • All My Tomorrows

    Harlequin Super Romance - 341
    Harlequin Super Romance (M&B) - 206
    Men at Work (reissues) - 45

    THEY WERE AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT To emergency room doctor Jess Brannigan the world was black and white. Guidance counselor Carly Sullivan rejoiced in every brilliant hue that colored her experience. Thrown together on a New Orleans grand ju...

  • Compelling Connection

    Harlequin Super Romance - 371

    She'd always played by the rules Lauren Holt had been raised as a well-bred Southern lady--to do the proper things, make wise, safe decisions and--most importantly--to defer to her menfolk. So, when her husband had insisted that she bear him a...



  • Debt of Love

    Harlequin Super Romance - 453

    She was tormented by remorse Free-spirited Alexandra Tate had always been as elusive as a summer's breeze. Hardly the woman for lawyer Tyler Madison, a man driven by his sense of duty. Then a random schoolyard shooting crippled Tyler's nephew, ...

  • Beyond Summer

    Close To Home (reissues) - 7
    Family (reissues) - 7
    Harlequin Super Romance - 472

    There were some things he couldn't forgive Lincoln Cantrell had returned to Blossom, Mississippi, intent on avenging the wrongs he'd been dealt at the hands of the state's would-be governor, Jack Keating. He got his opportunity when he took over t...

  • The Silence of Midnight

    Harlequin Super Romance - 500

    To serve and protect That was Jake McAdam's sworn duty to the citizens of Kinard County, Florida. But he had failed, not only as a sheriff, but also as a father and a husband. His small son Scotty had been snatched from under his nose! Rachel M...

  • Touch the Dawn

    Harlequin Super Romance - 532

    NOWHERE TO RUN On a late-spring afternoon, Mitchell St. Cyr drove to his former mother-in-law's and picked up Maggie and Russell. He changed their name to Smith and headed out of Seattle. He had kidnapped his own children, and none of their li...

  • A Very Special Favor

    in My Valentine 1994

    Joe Masterson and Marly Kendrick had been planning a Valentine's Day wedding sixteen years ago, but Marly had left Joe with no explanation and no goodbye. Now she's living right next door with a little girl called Jaycee. He knows he should stay away...

  • Roses and Rain

    The O'Connors - 1
    Harlequin Super Romance - 602

    THE O'CONNORS Shannon O'Connor knew that detective Nick Dalton was only doing his job when he rescued her from a near-death experience. And the hours he spent pursuing her attacker were all in the line of duty. So why did she react so strongly whe...

  • Shadows in the Mist

    The O'Connors - 2
    Harlequin Super Romance - 606

    THE O'CONNORS Ryan O'Connor wanted his privacy. He wanted to lick his wounds and learn to forget. What he didn't want was a boy, a dog, his grandmother, his ex-wife, Joanna, and another woman invading his island sanctuary. But that's exactly what ...

  • The Promise

    The O'Connors - 3
    Harlequin Super Romance - 610

    PATRICK O'CONNOR HAD PROMISED TO LOVE HER FOR ALL ETERNITY So how was it that Kathleen Collins found herself alone, friendless and pregnant in New York? Patrick had sent her the fare to make the voyage from Ireland, but the Irish Queen had collid...

  • Having His Baby

    9 Months Later - 5
    Harlequin Super Romance - 681

    A marriage of convenience... It made perfect sense. Or so Dr. Talbot Rebichaux told Dr. Stephanie Sheldon. Since both had busy hospital practices, their baby would be much better off - and their own lives much easier - if they shared parental dut...

  • Sugar Baby

    Harlequin Super Romance - 712
    Women Who Dare - 32

    SHE COULD LOSE HER SON, AFTER ALL Little Danny Woodson witnessed a murder, and now the killer is after him. Claire Woodson will do anything to protect her son. Even if it means living with the enemy. And Mack McMollere, Danny's uncle, is the en...



  • It Takes A Miracle

    in Merry Christmas, Baby!

    What the kids want for Christmas: Jessica and Jamie Kinsley want their uncle Nathan to get married again to his ex-wife, Emily. She kids want a real family, and now that Nathan's their guardian, they figure he should get back together with Emil...

  • Good Girls

    The lives of three Southern women are tainted by one man -- the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious Jack Sullivan -- until he's finally stopped by a bullet Suzanne: Beautiful, intelligent and burning for a career in the law, she is nearly destroyed by...

  • A Father's Heart

    Family Man
    Harlequin Super Romance - 786

    He only wanted to be a father to his children... But that was the one thing Daniel Kendrick couldn't be. Falsely accused of a crime that severed him from his family, he made a new, solitary life for himself in New Orleans. Soon that, too, was shat...

  • Full Circle

    What goes around, comes around ...even murder. Thirty-three years ago in New Orleans, two young families went cruising on a small yacht. The night was beautiful, the sea calm. And yet the boat, prophetically named Mayday sank. Six-year-old Kate Mad...

  • Jilted!

    in Marriage for Keeps

    On the night before her wedding, Rachel Winthrop's fiance elopes with someone else. It's the jerk's brother who steps in to offer comfort and support. And the next thing you know, there's a baby to consider......

  • What Child Is This?

    Harlequin Super Romance - 881
    Mills & Boon Super Romance - 53

    LUKE JAMISON: DEDICATED DOCTOR AND RELUCTANT SUBSTITUTE DAD Dr. Luke Jamison would do anything to help his patients -- anything but get emotionally attached. He tried that once, and it nearly destroyed him. Now his boss, the very determined D...

  • Kiss and Kill

    EVERYBODY KNOWS HER HUSBAND'S NAME... For twenty years, Anne Atwood has lived a storybook lifestyle in the glare of Washington's political spotlight. As the wife of a charismatic U.S. senator from Texas, she's one of the capitals' premier hostess, e...

  • Someone Knows

    YOU CAN ONLY RUN SO FAR... More than two decades ago, a pair of teen-aged runaways--one of them pregnant--struggled to survive the streets of New Orleans. One didn't make it. The other fled for her life with a newborn in tow, and she never looked bac...

  • Private Lives

    Elizabeth Walker has spent most of the past three decades trying to forget the loss of her mother and father, a lonely childhood spent in a series of foster homes and the two baby sisters she hasn't seen in twenty-five years. She values her privacy a...

  • In Confidence

    The irony of life is not lost on high school guidance counselor Rachel Forrester: while she is educating teens about good choices, her own life is spiraling out of control. First, she learns her husband is having an affair. Second, her aging mother c...



  • Never Tell

    Haunted by the memories of an August night nine years ago when a car crash robbed her of her family, artist Erica Stewart has focused her life on her thriving Houston boutique. No one is more surprised than Erica when a new man walks into her life. ...

  • Belle Pointe

    Anne Whitaker: Faced with an unexpected loss, Anne returns to the hot and sultry Mississippi Delta, leaving her husband, Buck, to ponder his future -- with or without her. Looking for distraction, she immerses herself in the history of Belle Pointe, ...

  • Blood Bayou

    To Save a Victim, Camille St. James May Have to Become One Herself. Seven years ago, tragedy ended the troubled marriage of Camille and Jack Vermillion. Now, as head of the Truth Project, her life safe and orderly, she focuses her lawyerly skills ...

  • Missing Max

    When baby Max is kidnapped during Mardi Gras, Jane and Kyle Madison's life falls apart. What their daughter, Melanie, does next is unthinkable. Max vanished into thin air while in the care of his teenage sister, Melanie. Six months later, the fami...

  • Lie for Me

    Lauren Holloway's ex-fiance, Tucker Kane, is without an alibi when his ex-wife is murdered. Tucker claims to have been alone at a job site at the time, but he needs Lauren to lie for him so that he won't become a suspect in the murder. She refuses; n...

  • Time to Heal

    Harlequin Heartwarming (Reissues) - 25

    Rachel's world came crashing down with the kidnapping of her only child. Her despair made her question everything about her life, including her eighteen-year marriage to local sheriff, Jake McAdam. When fourteen-year-old Michael appears on their door...

  • French Tales

    Grab your passport to fun and join Riley on another magical, fantastical, ponytail-powered and imagination-fueled adventure. A Parisian-inspired tea party in her grandparents' garden swiftly gives way to a surprising and thrilling journey to France. ...

Award-Winning Books by Karen Young

The Silence of Midnight
1993 Rita Award -- Long Contemporary Romance
1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin SuperRomance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Young has published 36 books.

Karen Young does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, French Tales, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Karen Young, Yesterday's Promise, was published in March 1983.

Yes. Karen Young has 1 series.
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