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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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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 MeAnd Gold Was OursThe Outlaw Hearts
If you like dark Gothic family drama: Upon a Moon-Dark MoorAcross A Starlit SeaThe Love Knot
If you want fantasy romance: Passion Moon RisingBeyond the Starlit FrostThe Ninefold Key
If you prefer historical epics with vivid settings: HeartlandRainbow's EndSwan Road
If you want later romantic suspense: Glory SeekersDestiny's DaughterThe 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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