Rebecca Brandewyne Books in Order
Explore Rebecca Brandewyne books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start with her historical, gothic, and suspense novels.
Last updated: July 12, 2026
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Publication Order
29 books
No Gentle Love
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1980
Morgana is hunted for her beauty, her fortune, and the power others think they can claim through her. In a turbulent world of coercion, danger, and obsession, even love arrives in a hard and troubling form.
Forever My Love
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1982
In late medieval Scotland, Mary Carmichael and Hunter MacBeth are caught between prophecy, clan hatred, and fierce attraction. What begins in danger grows into a sweeping love story haunted by violence, loyalty, and fate.
Love, Cherish Me
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1983
Storm is being sent to Texas for an unwanted marriage when outlaws seize her and gamble her away to the dangerous gunslinger El Lobo. What begins as captivity turns into a sweeping frontier romance full of peril, pride, and fierce desire.
And Gold Was Ours
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1984
Aurora's future is foretold in Spain, then fulfilled in Peru, where danger, exile, and a legend of hidden gold reshape her life. This companion to Love, Cherish Me mixes prophecy, jungle adventure, and a passionate, fate-driven romance.
Rose Of Rapture
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1984
Lady Isabella Ashley is forced by royal decree to marry Lord Warwick, a man tied to the wrong side of a bitter political divide. Set amid the Wars of the Roses, this romance mixes court danger with a reluctant, high-stakes marriage.
The Outlaw Hearts
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1986
When a train holdup throws Jenny Colter into the hands of outlaw Luke Morgan, old trauma and new danger collide. On the Missouri frontier, captivity slowly gives way to a hard-won trust neither of them expected.
Desire in Disguise
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1987
Set in Revolutionary France, this lighter historical follows aristocrats with theatrical roots as they outwit the Reign of Terror. Disguises, danger, and romance turn survival into a daring performance.
Passion Moon Rising
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1988
Princess Ileana and warrior prince Cain are drawn together by desire, destiny, and a world on the edge of war. Their love burns bright, but mistrust, betrayal, and clashing kingdoms threaten to tear them apart.
Upon a Moon-Dark Moor
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1988
At bleak Highclyffe Hall, motherless Maggie Chandler grows up under her father's bitterness and finds her deepest bond with the brooding outsider Draco. Set on the Cornish moors, this is a stormy coming-of-age romance shaped by family wounds and forbidden desire.
Across A Starlit Sea
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1989
Laura Prescott is promised to Jarrett Chandler, but it is his younger brother Nicholas who haunts her heart. Against the wild Cornish coast, duty, longing, and family history collide in a romance with lasting consequences.
Heartland
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1990
In post Civil War Kansas, Rachel Wilder steps in to care for her late friend's children, only to clash with their dangerous-looking uncle, Slade Maverick. Shared responsibility leads to love, but Slade's past is not done with him yet.
Beyond the Starlit Frost
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1991
Rhiannon, an orphaned huntress with a dangerous gift, joins the royal warrior Iskander on a quest to save Tintagel from dark forces. Magic, ancient relics, and a perilous love story drive this fantasy romance onward.
Rainbow's End
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1991
Josselyn O'Rourke leaves convent life behind to claim her father's Colorado gold mine, only to find sabotage, secrets, and a proposed marriage to rugged saloon owner Durango. Everyone around the mine has motives, and trust is in short supply.
Desperado
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1992
Texas, 1913. Araminta Winthrop is trapped in a marriage she never wanted until the notorious Rigo de Castillo crashes her wedding and carries her off. Their flight turns into a volatile romance charged with danger and desire.
Swan Road
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1994
In the ninth century, Viking outcast Wulfgar Bloodaxe seizes Princess Rhowenna during a raid and hides her identity to keep her alive. Amid ships, rival warlords, and brutal politics, captivity becomes something far more complicated.
The Jacaranda Tree
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1995
An Englishwoman travels to Australia in search of work and survives a shipwreck that changes everything. Rescued by a former convict, she later finds that society's judgment and a lurking killer are just as dangerous as the wilderness.
Dust Devil
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1996
Years after Renzo was forced to flee home under a murder accusation, he returns to the woman he left behind and the son he never knew. Old lies, buried passion, and new threats turn their reunion into a reckoning.
Hired Husband
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1996
Caroline Fortune proposes a pretend marriage to keep brilliant chemist Nicholas from deportation and protect the family business. The arrangement is meant to solve a problem, but real feelings make everything far messier.
Presumed Guilty
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1996
During one long, sweltering summer, buried secrets and old sins pull one woman into a tightening web of danger. This contemporary romance leans into suspense, where the past refuses to stay quiet.
Wildcat
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1996
Morgan McCain likes control, bachelorhood, and doing things his own way, until Cat Devlin inherits half his company. Their unwanted partnership quickly turns into a brisk, sparring contemporary romance.
Glory Seekers
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1997
A murder inside a wealthy Gulf Coast dynasty reunites cynical cop Jake Seringo with journalist Claire Connelly, the woman he never really got over. As scandal and suspicious deaths mount, so does the danger around them.
High Stakes
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1998
This late contemporary romance raises the temperature with risk, power, and attraction that feels impossible to ignore. When hard choices start carrying real consequences, love becomes the biggest gamble of all.
The Lioness Tamer
by Rebecca Brandewyne
1998
Tycoon Jordan Westcott does not expect Mistral St. Michel, proud, guarded, and fiercely protective of what she loves, to challenge him at every turn. Their clash of wills fuels a short, high-heat battle of hearts.
Destiny's Daughter
by Rebecca Brandewyne
2001
When Bryony St. Blaze receives her dead father's research, she becomes convinced he was murdered by a secret order searching for a missing magical book. In Britain, a historian may be her best hope, and her greatest temptation.
The Love Knot
by Rebecca Brandewyne
2003
After a darkly compelling highwayman attacks her carriage, governess Verity Collier suspects her new employer may be the same man. At a Cornish manor full of secrets, romance, espionage, and danger tighten into one knot.
The Ninefold Key
by Rebecca Brandewyne
2004
Ariana Levesque has long been haunted by a strange dream, while Malcolm Blackfriars uncovers a murder, a family curse, and a past full of buried secrets. Their fated meeting sends them chasing a key that could save or destroy them.
The Crystal Rose
by Rebecca Brandewyne
2006
In 1851 London, Rose Windermere receives a sealed letter that pulls her back toward a childhood tragedy in India. With danger closing in and Raj Khanna on her trail, she must unravel a conspiracy before it costs her everything.
To Die For
by Rebecca Brandewyne
2008
Paul and Lily Clothier mean to attend one last society party as a married couple before parting for good. Then a parlor game ends in murder, Paul becomes the prime suspect, and the estranged pair must work together again.
From the Mists of Wolf Creek
by Rebecca Brandewyne
2009
After her mother's death, Hallie Muldoon returns to Meadowsweet Farm determined to uncover the secrets that drove her away. A mysterious protector steps from the mist, but the evil waiting there has not forgotten her.
Where should I start?
If you want sweeping western romance: Love, Cherish Me → And Gold Was Ours → The Outlaw Hearts
If you like dark Gothic family drama: Upon a Moon-Dark Moor → Across A Starlit Sea → The Love Knot
If you want fantasy romance: Passion Moon Rising → Beyond the Starlit Frost → The Ninefold Key
If you prefer historical epics with vivid settings: Heartland → Rainbow's End → Swan Road
If you want later romantic suspense: Glory Seekers → Destiny's Daughter → The Crystal Rose
Author bio
Rebecca Brandewyne was born Mary Rebecca Wadsworth on March 4, 1955, in Knoxville, Tennessee. She spent her earliest years in Knoxville and Chattanooga before her family moved to Kansas, where she grew up. Summers in Alabama with her grandparents also became part of that early map, and you can feel that wide sense of place in the way her novels move so confidently between regions, landscapes, and moods.
She once described herself as a country girl with a little big-city spice.
Before fiction became her full-time work, Brandewyne built a serious academic and communications background. She graduated cum laude with departmental honors from Wichita State University, earning a bachelor's degree in journalism, along with minors in history and music, and then a master's degree in communications. She was a two-time Victor Murdock Scholarship recipient, studied under several notable teachers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, and later taught interpersonal communication at the university level.
Her path into publishing started early. Brandewyne began writing her first novel, No Gentle Love, when she was twenty-one, finished it about a year later, and sold it not long after her twenty-third birthday. At the time, that sale made her the youngest romance author in America, a distinction that stayed with her for a decade.
That early break turned into a long run. Brandewyne went on to write more than thirty consecutive bestselling titles, and she did not stay in one corner of romance for long. Readers know her for sweeping historicals like Love, Cherish Me and Forever My Love, dark and stormy Gothic romances like Upon a Moon-Dark Moor, western-flavored stories like Heartland, and fantasy romance in the Chronicles of Tintagel books, beginning with Passion Moon Rising. Later novels such as Glory Seekers, Destiny's Daughter, and The Crystal Rose show how comfortably she could move into romantic suspense and mystery.
Her bibliography does not stay in one lane for long.
What ties those books together is scale. Brandewyne liked large emotions, proud heroines, dangerous men, family secrets, and settings that feel vivid enough to walk through, from Scotland and Cornwall to Texas, Kansas, Australia, and India. Even when the plots get wild, and they often do, the appeal is easy to spot: intense feeling, high drama, and a real love of backdrop, weather, and atmosphere.
Her career was also notably wide in reach. Her books were translated into many languages and published in more than sixty countries, and she collected a long list of romance awards along the way. Among them were honors for Love, Cherish Me, The Outlaw Hearts, Upon a Moon-Dark Moor, Across a Starlit Sea, and later The Ninefold Key. She was also inducted into the Romantic Times Hall of Fame.
On the personal side, Brandewyne married young, had a son, Shane, and later wrote as someone who moved between her hometown and the publishing world in New York. That mix feels fitting. Her novels often carry both things at once, deep roots and big theatrical sweep, which is a large part of why readers still go looking for them.
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