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Pamela Browning
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Pamela Ketter was born on 25 April 1942 in Evanston, Illinois, USA, daughter of Helen (Jaeger), a designer, and John Ketter, a musician and investor. Married, Pam has two grown children, a son, Neill, and a daughter, Bethany. She makes her home in North Carolina. Before she began writing romances, she worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist, and she has also worked in public relations, as well as in the admissions department of a small college. In her spare time, she volunteers as a docent at the local art museum and studies yoga.
She is the award-winning author of books for adults and children. She has been published by Silhouette, Harlequin, Mills & Boon, and Berkley as well as by various international publishers, including Mondadori in Italy and Cora Verlag in Germany. Her books are sold in 90 countries and have been translated into 21 languages. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Highlights for Children, Child Life, The Writer, and other national publications. Many of her books have been listed on the B. Dalton and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and they consistently win high ratings from reviewers. Her book The Mommy Wish won a 2005 Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine, and she has won the Georgia Romance Writers' Maggie as well as many first-place awards for her adult and juvenile novels in the annual National Federation of Press Women contest.
Full Series List in Order
Heartland
1 - Simple Gifts (Mar-1988)2 - Fly Away (Apr-1988)
3 - Harvest Home (May-1988)
Rancho Encantado
1 - Cowboy Enchantment (Aug-2003)2 - Baby Enchantment (Nov-2003)
Related Books
1 - Through Eyes of Love (Oct-1985)2 - Forever Is a Long Time (May-1986)
Related Books - 2
1 - A Real-Thing Fling (May-2003)2 - Life Is a Beach (May-2003)
Multi-Author Series List
"Tis the Season
3 - Merry Christmas, Baby (Dec-1993)Fatherhood
6 - The Mommy Wish (Jun-2005)9 - Breakfast With Santa (Nov-2005)
Heartbeat
Lover's Leap (May-1996)In the Family
Heard It Through the Grapevine (Oct-2004)New Arrivals
4 - Angel's Baby (Sep-1995)Studs
The World's Last Bachelor (Jan-1995)The Wedding Party
RSVP Baby (Aug-1999)With Child...
That's Our Baby! (Mar-2000)Book List in Order: 43 titles
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Touch of Gold
- Dec-1984
- / Contemporary Romance
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Chad Smith was no ordinary handyman Paige scented a mystery as soon as she arrived on St. Alban's, her aunts' windswept private island off the coast of Georgia. What handyman read the Wall Street Journal and collected sailing trophies? What han...
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Cherished Beginnings
- May-1985
- / Contemporary Romance
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Their views on childbirth were as different as day and night Maura McNeill needed a gynecologist, but not for the usual reasons. As a practicing midwife, she needed a doctor willing to sponsor her to a hospital and to be her backup in case of an e...
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Handyman Special
- Aug-1985
- / Contemporary Romance
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She changed houses into homes and loneliness into love Sage McKenna had a unique reputation in her little South Carolina town. People called upon her when their houses needed remodeling or repairs, because she could do the jobs better than anyone....
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Through Eyes of Love
- Oct-1985
- / Contemporary Romance
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For Cassie Muldoon, life itself was an act of courage John Howard's search for Cassie led him to Flat Top Mountain in North Carolina--to a small cabin inhabited by a woman as shy and lovely as a doe. People traveled miles for Cassie's soothing tea...
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Interior Designs
- Dec-1985
- / Contemporary Romance
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Was love worth the risk? With the opening of her exclusive interior-design boutique Cathryn Mulqueen thought she'd attained all her goals -- she was chic, successful, a local celebrity whose photograph appeared regularly in the West Palm Beach...
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Ever Since Eve
- Feb-1986
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For Eve, there could be no second thoughts, no regrets Blacklisted by the mill owners in Wrayville, North Carolina, Eve Triopolous had exhausted all conventional options. What Derek and Kelly Lang offered was not precisely a job but more of a serv...
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Forever Is a Long Time
- May-1986
- / Contemporary Romance
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It was a long way from Scot's Cove to Hollywood But in two years, Sharon Ott had learned enough about the world to know what Brad Fielding wanted. He was the new vice-president of a highly successful record company, and she was the label's hottest...
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To Touch the Stars
- Oct-1986
- / Contemporary Romance
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In Peaceable Kingdom, Georgia, people were walking on air Julie Andrassy watched in distress as her relatives succumbed to the family madness, taking to the sky, as their feet remembered how to master the thin wire. Most triumphant was Stephen Mar...
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The Flutterby Princess
- Jan-1987
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Women aren't supposed to be rolling stones..." Will Anthony complained of Nuala Kemp's nomadic life-style. She traveled from town to town, delighting children with her story telling at fairs and libraries. But one stormy night in ...
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Ice Crystals
- Apr-1987
- / Contemporary Romance
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What does it take to make someone happy? For Monica Tye it took fast-paced days that began before dawn and ended at midnight. For her daughter, Stacie, who was on her way to becoming Aspen's latest championship skater, it took a dizzying sched...
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Kisses in the Rain
- Dec-1987
- / Contemporary Romance
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Martha Rose was a creature of impulse On impulse, Martha relocated to Ketchikan, Alaska, and opened a Bagel Barn. On impulse, she hired a teenager as her assistant. Buoyed by the success of these spur-of-the-moment decisions, Martha impulsively as...
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Simple Gifts
- Mar-1988
- / Contemporary Romance
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Curtisville, Kansas, is one town in the Heartland It is farming, family and faith. It is the dreams of those rugged settlers who wanted a better life for themselves and for their children. It is a place where night comes slowly and quietly, where ...
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Harvest Home
- May-1988
- / Contemporary Romance
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Mark Sherrod is coming home to the Heartland A startling series of coincidences persuades Mark that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Tim Vogel. Hoping that he's finally found the brother he's never known, the family he's never had, Mark travels ...
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Feathers in the Wind
- Mar-1989
- / Contemporary Romance
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Once her face had been her fortune... But Caro Nicholson could not rely on her beauty anymore. A brutal attack in Central Park had put an end to her lucrative modeling career, and now, frightened, she only wanted to get away from the cruel city. S...
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Until Spring
- Jun-1989
- / Contemporary Romance
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She didn't know her real name... And the streets were her home. But Jane Rhodes knew that she deserved a roof over her head, a job, a better way of life. She'd struck out from the blustery streets of Chicago, hoping to reach sunny Californ...
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Humble Pie
- Aug-1990
- / Contemporary Romance
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SOMETHING BIG WAS AFOOT The news came rocketing out of the Cascade Mountains: Bigfoot lives. Anthropologist Anne Springer immediately raced to Shula, Washington -- where she was forced to share a wilderness guide with a researcher's nightmare....
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A Man Worth Loving
- Mar-1991
- / Contemporary Romance
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A MYSTERY WRAPPED IN A MEMORY Biographer Swann Triplett didn't know her latest subject. But her one encounter with Child Michael had the sweet wonder of a child's bedtime story. Swann had been five years old, the neglected daughter of w...
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For Auld Lang Syne
- Dec-1991
- / Contemporary Romance
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THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS Leigh Cathcart became a believer when her college sweetheart's marriage proposal arrived with her Christmas mail delivered by a Santa Claus look-alike -- about two decades after it had been sent. Celebrating Christmas...
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Sunshine and Shadows
- May-1992
- / Contemporary Romance
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THE TROUBLE WITH SAINTS The moment Lisa Sherrill began to work at Yahola, Florida's Faith Mission, she heard all about Jay Quillian. To hear people talk, you'd think he was perfect, a miracle worker. The mission nuns would have pinned a...
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Morgan's Child
- Aug-1992
- / Contemporary Romance
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AND BABY MADE THREE When Kate Sinclair impulsively agreed to become a surrogate mother for a divorced socialite, she hadn't counted on the other woman reneging on the contract midway through the pregnancy -- and telling Kate she'd changed ...
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Merry Christmas, Baby
- Dec-1993
- / Paranormal Romance
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BAH HUMBUG! To Jake Travis, Christmas was just another day. The rough-and rugged carpenter knew little about jolly old elves in sleighs pulled by reindeer, even less about the care of newborn babies left alone in mangers, and nothing at all about...
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The World's Last Bachelor
- Jan-1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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NAME: Deke Washburn AGE: 32 STATUS: S.T.U.D. #4 OCCUPATION: Self-made Millionaire To his friends, Deke Washburn was the world's last bachelor-to single women, an impossible catch. But the playboy millionaire had just met his match .... Beaut...
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Angel's Baby
- Sep-1995
- / Contemporary Romance
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'Let's make a baby together.' Angel McCabe's biological clock was ringing - loud. But there was no one else on the otherwise uninhabited Florida island to hear it. With no husband in sight, she had no choice but to run a personal ad. Once wedded ...
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Lover's Leap
- May-1996
- / Contemporary Romance
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I'M GOING TO HAVE A BABY... Maybe it was the hormones of early pregnancy doing a number on her, but one minute Maggie Macintyre was paddling her canoe downriver and the next a half-naked man seemed to fall from the sky, toppling her into the chur...
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That's Our Baby!
- Mar-2000
- / Contemporary Romance
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Man woman and child Sam Harbeck needed his best friend's widow to give him back what was his -- the rights to the deposit he'd made to a sperm bank. He'd come to Alaska to get her signature on the release. But he was too late: Kelly Anderson was a...
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Baby Christmas
- Dec-2000
- / Contemporary Romance
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The year the Stork played Santa -- and Cupid -- for Christmas! Alone on Christmas Eve, Rachel Hirsch was astounded to find a cooing newborn outside her apartment door. With social services closed for the holiday, she had to take the baby home with h...
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Cowboy With a Secret
- May-2001
- / Contemporary Romance
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POSITION WANTED Hinest, hardworking man seeks job on ranch. Good with cattle and horses and babies. Bethany Burke was fascinated by her new ranch hand -- a man she'd ordered from a catalog! Strong, quiet Colt McClure had a way with animals and a ...
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Pregnant and Incognito
- Jan-2002
- / Contemporary Romance
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Celebrity Mother-To-Be Vanishes! When daytime-TV darling Dana Cantrell disappeared from the spotlight to complete her pregnancy in peace, she never dreamed she'd want to catch a man's eye. But she hadn't counted on her sexy and intrigu...
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Rancher's Double Dilemma
- May-2002
- / Contemporary Romance
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Nanny Wanted Garth Colquitt had placed the nanny wanted ad, but he never expected to want the woman who answered it. Garth had a baby to raise, a ranch to run, and a hard-and-fast hands-off-the-nanny rule. But single mom Lacey Shaw's homemaking wa...
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Life Is a Beach
- May-2003
- / Contemporary Romance
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Hunky rancher Slade Braddock is tired of roping the wrong female, so he signs on as a client at Rent-a-Yenta matchmakers of South Beach, Miami. He's willing to leave it to the professionals to find him a mate! Karma O'Connor is desperate to make a su...
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A Real-Thing Fling
- May-2003
- / Contemporary Romance
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Karma's sister is in town mixing business with pleasure. Azure O'Connor is to consult with a local high-flying businessman. Little does she realize that the businessman is Leonardo Santori, aka Lee Sanders, the beach bum she met at Karma's wedding an...
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Cowboy Enchantment
- Aug-2003
- / Contemporary Romance
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Cowboys...And Cradles? All work and no play had made Erica Strong's life dull. So when her sister forced her to take some much-needed time off to visit the Rancho Encantado spa, the successful banker longed for a little relaxation and a fling ...
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Baby Enchantment
- Nov-2003
- / Contemporary Romance
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How do you expose someone else's secrets...and protect your own? Journalist Brooke Hollister has her next expose targeted -- Rancho Encantado, a luxurious ranch in the California desert that she's sure is a fraud. Ambitious Brooke goes there under...
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Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Oct-2004
- / Contemporary Romance
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Can She Overcome the Fear Factor? Gina Angelini never wants to see Josh Corbett again, and everyone knows why. Two years ago he romanced her in front of millions of TV viewers -- then surprised the world by picking another contestant to share his li...
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The Mommy Wish
- Jun-2005
- / Contemporary Romance
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Message in a Bottle To Somebody: I think they like each other. Molly and my dad, I mean. He hasn't been Mr. Grumpy in a long time and he's only watched jeppardy once. I will let you no what happens... Your friend, Phoebe Anne Norvald Molly McBryde...
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Breakfast With Santa
- Nov-2005
- / Contemporary Romance
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St. Nick Says He Can't Deliver. But the Ex-Marine in the Santa Suit Just Might! Money is tight for single mom Beth McCormick, so she compensates for what she can't give five-year-old Mitchell materially in other -- but maybe not so wise -- ways. L...
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The Treasure Man
- Apr-2006
- / Contemporary Romance
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Finders, Keepers? When Chloe Timberlake agrees to look after the Frangipani Inn, her cousin's bed-and-breakfast, she expects to find the fabulous Florida inn of her youth -- not a derelict mansion that could collapse around her if she so much as sla...
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Down Home Carolina Christmas
- Nov-2007
- / Contemporary Romance
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As Different As Oil And Water! Allowing a movie crew to take over her gas station in Yewville was a bad idea, and it never would have happened if Carrie Smith's home hadn't desperately needed a new roof. Then, along with the stretch limos, came Lu...
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Down Home Dixie
- Apr-2008
- / Contemporary Romance
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No Self-Respecting Southern Belle Would Consider It! Fresh from reenacting a Civil War battle, Kyle Sherman, dressed in his Union uniform, is lost in Yewville, South Carolina. Dixie Lee Smith knows such a man should be treated as the enemy -- shun...
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Touch the Stars
- Jun-2013
- / Contemporary Romance
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High-wire walker Stephen Martinovic dreams of reuniting the Amazing Andrassys. But is he a fool for wanting to touch the stars with the beautiful Julie Andrassy?<br><br>Julie vowed to never walk the wire again. She alone knows what really...
Award-Winning Books by Pamela Browning
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin American