Mary Lynn Baxter

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1982
  • Latest Book:
    December 2006
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Mary Lynn Baxter was born on 28 July 1943 in Lufkin, Texas, USA, where she bred, home of the cowboy - hero of the Western romance, which is one of the most popular of the category's sub-genres. She would be the first to say that it's her background that gives her a unique feel for romance writing. Since she was a young girl, books and reading have been an important part of her life. Only after she read all the "goodies" in her public library did her mother encourage her to buy Harlequin romances, then 35 cents each. Wow! Those reading years laid the background for her decision to major in Library Science at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and become a school librarian.

After eight years of working in various school systems, she felt a need to do something different. What she wanted was to open a bookstore. With the help of her husband, Leonard, and her mother, Mary Lynn did just that. For over 20 years she sold books, and loved every minute of it. Then Mary Lynn decided she needed a new challenge. Following an intense amount of pushing and prodding from her husband she took the plunge and tried her hand at writing. After months of agonising and chewing her nails, she finally mailed All our Tomorrows to Silhouette books in February 1981. One year later it was published as a Silhouette Special Edition. Now, over 40 books later, she's still writing. Mary Lynn can't think of anything else she'd rather do with her time and energy. She surfaces from her writing, she's a voracious reader. But this petite dynamo is always happy to tumble out of her world of fiction into her local fitness center for a bracing workout. She's also dedicated to her volunteer work... and still manages to fit in plenty of quality time with her family at their home in Lufkin, Texas.

Full Series List in Order

Davis-Dixon

1 - Saddle Up (Apr-1996)
2 - Tight-Fittin' Jeans (Mar-1997)

Kincaid-Nelson

1 - Fool's Music (Jul-1987)
2 - Moonbeams Aplenty (Dec-1987)

Multi-Author Series List

36 Hours

1 - Lightning Strikes (Jul-1997)
17 - A Pregnant Pause (Nov-2000)

Man of the Month

32 - Tall in the Saddle (Aug-1991)
88 - Saddle Up (Apr-1996)
99 - Tight-Fittin' Jeans (Mar-1997)
119 - Slow Talkin' Texan (Nov-1998)
131 - Heart of Texas (Nov-1999)
144 - Her Perfect Man (Nov-2000)
154 - The Millionaire Comes Home (Sep-2001)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • All Our Tomorrows

    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 9
    Silhouette Special Edition - 9

    THEY COULD MAKE. TOMORROW LAST FOREVER. Brooke Lawson lost a successful past in the accident that almost look her life, but the healing winds of Hawaii brought her peace. In the tropical splendor of an island night she learned from Ashley Graha...

  • Tears of Yesterday

    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 31
    Silhouette Special Edition - 31

    TEARS OF YESTERDAY... But no tears for tomorrow. Paige and Lane Morgan had once shared the secret joys of marriage but had been unable to make the magic last. Given a second chance, they must find their way into each other's arms though a glitt...

  • Shared Moments

    Mills & Boon Desire - 24
    Silhouette Desire - 24

    DANGEROUS DESIRE He was the devil in disguise: Face McCord, the silver-haired client Courtney Roberts tried to keep at arm's length. But the New Orleans building tycoon took possession of her from the first. Too quickly, he aroused feelings she th...

  • Autumn Awakening

    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 96
    Silhouette Special Edition - 96

    For Keeley Sanders, football was no lighthearted game, especially since star quarterback Linc Hunter entered her life. She wanted him off the team because she cringed each time the opposing players forced him to the ground. Yet as acting business ...

  • Another Kind of Love

    Men Made In America (reissues) - 4
    Men Made in America 2 (reissues) - 4
    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 19

    A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE . . . When Ali Cameron left behind the cosmetics industry and the city for a healing vacation in the Ozarks, she had her priorities straight. Work was the only item on the list. Adam Forrest changed all that. He awoke emo...

  • Memories That Linger

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 52

    SWEET MEMORIES OF DESIRE.... Two people met on a Galveston beach and followed their passion into love. But the real world intruded, and that love was left only in memory. Two years later, Meryl Stevens and Reese Corbett met again, and this meet...

  • Everything But Time

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 74

    THEY HAD KNOWN LOVE.... They had known passion and the joy of shared dreams--and they had had everything but time. Danielle Davis and Keir McBride had shared the kind of love few ever know, but her abrupt disappearance, necessary to save her li...

  • A Handful of Heaven

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 117

    SEAT BELTS FASTENED! Raine Michaels was soaring her way to the top, successfully managing her own consulting firm. When she made contact with Ashe Elliot, an ace pilot who reveled in danger and excitement, passion took control. Raine had seen h...

  • Price Above Rubies

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 130

    PRODIGAL SON ... McKenzie Moore was seventeen when she realized she loved Jeb Langley--not as a stepbrother, but as a man. And what they shared was hot, torrid--complete. Until Carson Langley forced her to choose between him and his rebel son, but...



  • When We Touch

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 156

    CODE NAME: BEAUTY After three years away from the agency, three years since josh was murdered, three years since she'd channeled her pain into world-class photography, the FBI wanted Blair Browning back to catch the mercenary responsible for her h...

  • Between the Raindrops

    Mills & Boon Special Edition - 360
    Silhouette Special Edition - 360

    Take her baby away from her? Never! Beth Loring was determined to fight for her daughter--in court, if necessary. But it was hard to concentrate on a custody battle when a new neighbor scented determined to distract her. What Beth didn't know abou...

  • Fool's Music

    Kincaid-Nelson - 1
    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 197

    KIDNAPPED! Lauren DeCoty hadn't expected to be greeted by gunmen when she opened her hotel room door. She was in France on assignment, and what reason would anyone, especially the Palestinian Nationalist Front, have for kidnapping a top fashion m...

  • Moonbeams Aplenty

    Kincaid-Nelson - 2
    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 217
    Western Lovers (reissues) - 19
    Western Lovers (Set 2) (reissues) - 19

    UNDER WATCHFUL EYES Kari Kerns had reached a crossroads and needed a change to figure things out, but her travels through rustic Amber, Wyoming, hit a snag when she witnessed a bank robbery. Life began to get complicated... . And Sheriff Nate N...

  • Knight Sparks

    Men at Work (reissues) - 21
    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 272

    KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR .. . Carly Mitchum was serious about being a cop, so the hassling she got from her male colleagues might have been no more than an occupational hazard--if only Rance Knight hadn't seemed to share their views. Rance wasn't j...

  • Wish Giver

    Silhouette Intimate Moments - 296

    HE WAS HER LAST CHANCE ... Glynis Hamilton would do anything to save her critically ill son's life, even if it meant confronting the man who'd caused her such bitter heartbreak six years before. Once Glynis had loved Cort McBride, but, consumed by...

  • Added Delight

    Mills & Boon Desire - 527
    Silhouette Desire - 527

    TEXAS TEMPTATION Widower Joshua Malone had his hands full running a business and raising his two small children all by himself. So he hired Melissa Banning as a housekeeper to make his life easier--and immediately found he'd only added to his trou...

  • Winter Heat

    Mills & Boon Desire - 542
    Silhouette Desire - 542

    ICE PRINCESS Alison Young had always lived by the rules: marry well, live quietly and never do anything scandalous. But deep down the wealthy widow knew something was missing and so she filled her lonely days with work. Then one day she looked out...

  • Slow Burn

    Mills & Boon Desire - 571
    Silhouette Desire - 571

    LIKE IT OR NOT If Tate Brien thought she was after his son's money, he didn't know Marnie Lee. She'd worked hard to get where she was, and she wasn't ready to let any man take first place in her life--not even the boss's son. She was captain of h...

  • Tall in the Saddle

    Man of the Month - 32
    Mills & Boon Desire - 660
    Silhouette Desire - 660

    MR. AUGUST Man: Flint Carson Description: Lean. Hard. Tough. As proud and magnificent as the wild cattle he raises on his Texas ranch. Lesson in love: Never trust a woman, especially the high-society type. Fatal undoing: Ravishing Step...



  • Marriage, Diamond Style

    Mills & Boon Desire - 679
    Silhouette Desire - 679

    WILD HEART Virile, fiery Matthew Diamond didn't believe in love! And he certainly didn't like cool, collected women like Brittany Fleming. What Matthew loved was a challenge, and the chance to thaw this ice princess was one he couldn't pass up--so...

  • A Day in April

    A YOUNG GIRL'S SHAME... Beth Melbourne was only seventeen, hovering on the brink of womanhood, when her life was shattered. Tainted and ashamed, she fled Shawnee, Louisiana, leaving behind the hope-filled innocence of youth. A WOMAN'S DR...

  • And Baby Makes Perfect

    Mills & Boon Desire - 727
    Silhouette Desire - 727

    A PERFECT PASSION Sexy tycoon Drew MacMillan lived life on the edge and was the favorite subject of society columns and wagging tongues. No one ever expected the rugged renegade to return to the East Texas town he'd once called home, but here he w...

  • Joni's Magic

    in Silhouette Christmas Stories 1992

    A man and his dog - that was the sum of Boothe Larson's self-imposed exile deep in the Arkansas woods. All visitors were turned away from the lonely cabin. But then a little girl worked magic on him, and so did her mother, Lacy Madison. It was Christ...

  • Mike's Baby

    Greatest Texas Love Stories of All Time (reissues) - 15
    Greatest Texas Love Stories of All Time (Set 2) (reissues) - 7
    Mills & Boon Desire - 781
    Silhouette Desire - 781

    BODY AND SOUL When a suspicious hit-and-run driver injured state witness Joanna Nash, the authorities insisted on round-the-clock protection. The doctors insisted that she recover from her injuries, so she hired all-too-personal trainer Mike McCoy...

  • Dancler's Woman

    Mills & Boon Desire - 822
    Silhouette Desire - 822

    MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH.. Fashion model Marlee Bishop needed part of her trust-fund money fast, but her stubborn guardian wasn't about to fork it over. What did this cattleman know about couture? Somehow she had to get her hands on the funds ...

  • Sweet Justice

    SOME BETRAYALS A WOMAN NEVER FORGIVES...OR FORGETS Kate Colson, seemingly too young to be a Texas judge, holds tremendous power to save the innocent and punish the guilty-even though her own need for personal justice smolders deep within her. Sepa...

  • Boot Scootin'

    in Silhouette Summer Sizzlers 1995

    She's a headstrong woman looking for more than a one-night stand. He's a gorgeous cowboy long on Texas charm and short on staying with one gal. But on a sultry summer night, these two feel only the heat.......

  • Hot Texas Nights

    A FAMILY... The Whitmore name in Austin, Texas, meant wealth, power, and ruthlessness. Run by patriarch Fletcher Whitmore, the family commanded respect--and fear. Then eldest son and senatorial candidate Phillip Whitmore was killed was shot and kill...

  • Priceless

    A CHILD... Architect Leah Frazier had taken a great risk once -- when she went to extreme measures to conceive her child. She adored her son, Coty, yet it would take another daring move to turn her life around. Her husband, long an invalid, was dyin...



  • Saddle Up

    Davis-Dixon - 1
    Man of the Month - 88
    Mills & Boon Desire - 991
    Silhouette Desire - 991

    MR. APRIL The Groom Had a Secret: Rugged rancher Jeremiah Davis joined the bachelor auction to find a willing wife.... The Bride Had a Fit: The last thing Bridget Martin remembered was buying a sexy stranger at a fundraising auction...so how di...

  • Southern Fires

    A Doctor Dr. Yancy Granger had given many women the child they longed for-by being America's best fertility specialist. To the world he was a Nobel Prize candidate; to Charlottesville, Virginia, he was a hero; to himself, he was a sinner tormente...

  • Tight-Fittin' Jeans

    Davis-Dixon - 2
    Man of the Month - 99
    Mills & Boon Desire - 1069
    Silhouette Desire - 1057

    MR. MARCH The stubborn cowboy: Garth Dixon had no hankerin' for a wife, but the blond vixen next door had him scheming for a chance at a no-string fling... The southern beauty: No way was Tiffany Russell giving in to her hot-tempered, secre...

  • Lightning Strikes

    36 Hours - 1
    36 Hours - 1
    36 Hours (Mills & Boon) - 1

    A town is plunged into darkness... The mayor is missing... Two doctors race the clock to save lives... As a blackout paralyzed Grand Springs, Colorado, Dr. Noah Howell was back on the job in Vanderbilt Memorial's ER, thrown together with Dr....

  • Lone Star Heat

    Juliana Reed is one of broadcast journalism's most promising talents. But just as her show is about to be syndicated, she's caught in a dangerous whirlwind of political corruption, blackmail and murder. And suddenly she has no choice but to rely on t...

  • Hard Candy

    He's crossed the line no homicide cop ever should. He's involved with a suspect. Emotionally and physically. And it's something he knows is wrong. But that's nothing. She's got a whole list -- a murdered husband, vicious threats, missing money...

  • Slow Talkin' Texan

    Man of the Month - 119
    Mills & Boon Desire - 1201
    Silhouette Desire - 1177

    MR. NOVEMBER The Problem: Sexy single dad Porter Wyman was a Texan born and bred, but this tycoon's fortune was no help in his current predicament. If he didn't get some assistance with baby Matthew soon, he was going to run for the hills. Th...

  • One Summer Evening

    ONE SUMMER EVENING, A RECKLESS ACT OF LOVE CHANGED HER LIFE FOREVER... Now, nine year later, Cassie Wortham has returned to Louisiana, to the lush home of her parents, to the roots left behind in the wake of desperate acts. She's been living a nig...

  • Heart of Texas

    Man of the Month - 131
    Mills & Boon Desire - 1267
    Silhouette Desire - 1249

    "Cozying up to the enemy makes sense." --- Clark Garrison, urban cowboy and ruthless capitalist. Clark Garrison had his reasons for returning to River Oaks and wasn't about to let anyone stand in his way -- especially not Dr. Sara Wilson. Hell, she ...

  • Sultry

    Things are heating up... HOT AS A SUMMER NIGHT Since her mother's tragic suicide, Lindsay Newman has watched her wealthy Mississippi family spin out of control. Tired of being a pawn in men's games, Lindsay is determined to become a rebel in h...



  • A Pregnant Pause

    in The Christmas That Changed Everything
    36 Hours
    36 Hours - 17

    Days before Christmas, a storm sweeps a small Colorado town.... Shocking secrets are revealed. Couples are united. Families and futures are made. A wealthy rancher delivers the baby of the vulnerable beauty he has always loved, in a captivating story...

  • Her Perfect Man

    Man of the Month - 144
    Mills & Boon Desire - 1357
    Silhouette Desire - 1328

    One look at firebrand Katherine Mays, and Bryce Burnette's life went careening off its steady course. She was a party girl; he was a preacher. But their desire would not be dampened by labels. Underneath Katherine's sassy exterior lurked a depth of s...

  • Tempting Janey

    When Dillon Reed strolls into Janey Mayfield's candy shop, the past opens up like a forbidden door. The imposing ex-marine turned high school principal is a shocking reminder of an affair that shattered all their lives. After the scandal that des...

  • The Millionaire Comes Home

    Man of the Month - 154
    Mills & Boon Desire 2-in-1 - 28
    Silhouette Desire - 1387

    His sleek BMW looking like a champion black stallion, Denton rode arrogantly into the one-horse Texas town he'd once called home. Ripe with disdain, he planned to make a quick million -- then bolt. But the unexpected sight of Grace Simmons launched h...

  • Like Silk

    Despite his best intentions, the stranger on the road changed his life forever... The moment Collier Smith pulled to a stop on that rainy Tennessee mountain road and gently led the dazed, badly bruised woman into the warmth and safety of his car, ...

  • His Touch

    When a string of deadly warnings convinces Dallas mayor Jessica Kincaid that she needs a bodyguard, she hires Brant Harding. The former secret service agent takes the job for one very personal reason -- and it has nothing to do with this tempting wom...

  • Pulse Points

    Kasey Ellis's life is shattered after she witnesses the murder of her friend and business partner at their Tyler, Texas, advertising agency. Though Kasey can't identify the killer, she believes the killer saw her -- and that her life is now in danger...

  • Without You

    Gaining back trust is hard enough... Jackson Cole is shocked when he hears a troubled friend has been found murdered in a New Orleans hotel room -- and he's the prime suspect in her death. Jackson realizes he has to fight for his life, but the one...

  • In Hot Water

    Married with a young son, Maci Malone Ramsey has a stable and secure life...until her husband, a prominent physician, is arrested in connection with the death of one of his patients. The case against Dr. Seymour Ramsey appears cut-and-dried -- especi...

  • Evening Hours

    Her dream of becoming a fashion model shattered by a car accident, Kaylee Benton has a successful career running a top Texas modeling agency. But the scars run deep. She longs for two things she believes she can never have: a husband and a child. Whe...



  • Totally Texan

    Mills & Boon Desire 2-in-1 - 204
    Silhouette Desire - 1713

    UNTAMABLE TEXAN Successful Grant Wilcox was used to getting what he wanted. And what he wanted was Kelly Baker, the beautiful stranger passing through. It was just his luck that the gorgeous newcomer was also a whip-smart lawyer -- just the sort t...

  • To Claim His Own

    Mills & Boon Desire 2-in-1 - 227
    Silhouette Desire - 1740

    He was an expert at uncovering secrets, but Cal Webster had overlooked a huge one. His ex-wife had hidden her pregnancy from him. And worse, she had turned the baby over to his enemy. Cal was determined to get custody of his young son. But when h...

  • At The Texan's Pleasure

    Mills & Boon Desire 2-in-1 - 235
    Silhouette Desire - 1769

    RICH MAN'S SECRET BABY It had been five years since Molly Stewart Bailey fled east Texas, secretly pregnant with Worth Cavanaugh's child. Now he was the state's most powerful man and her mother's boss. Molly would do anything to protect her son, but...

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Mary Lynn Baxter has published 52 books.

Mary Lynn Baxter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, At The Texan's Pleasure, was published in December 2006.

The first book by Mary Lynn Baxter, All Our Tomorrows, was published in March 1982.

Yes. Mary Lynn Baxter has 2 series.
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