Janet Chapman Books in Order
See all Janet Chapman books in order, with reading guides for her Highlander, Midnight Bay, Spellbound Falls and contemporary Maine series, plus story summaries, series background, and where-to-start tips.
Last updated: December 22, 2025
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Publication Order
26 books
Call It Magic
by Janet Chapman
2020
Newly hired paramedic Katy MacBain arrives in Spellbound Falls after vanishing for three weeks and refuses to explain where she’s been. Interim fire chief Gunnar Wolfe senses real danger in her silence—and a powerful gift—forcing them both to confront secrets that are anything but ordinary.
From Kiss to Queen
by Janet Chapman
2016
Plainspoken woodswoman Jane Abbott dives into a freezing pond to save a crashing pilot, reviving him with a desperate kiss and leading him through gunfire to safety. Her stranger turns out to be Prince Markov Lakeland, who whisks her into royal intrigue and insists she might be the queen his country needs.
It's a Wonderful Wife
by Janet Chapman
2015
Tired of being the last single Sinclair brother, Jesse buys a small island off the Maine coast to build the perfect future home. The only woman who feels right is Cadi Glace—already engaged—until he finds her hiding in his camper and their careful plans collide.
The Highlander Next Door
by Janet Chapman
2014
Birch Callahan runs a women’s shelter and has sworn off relationships after watching her mother’s string of bad marriages. Her new neighbor, police officer and time-tossed Highlander Niall MacKeage, must reveal his own history if he wants Birch to risk her guarded heart.
The Heart of a Hero
by Janet Chapman
2013
Atlantis-born Nicholas has traded immortal power for a job as security director at two mountain resorts, where trouble keeps finding shy employee Julia Campbell. As accidents mount and secrets surface, Julia must decide whether to trust the mysterious man who keeps saving her.
For the Love of Magic
by Janet Chapman
2013
After forty years of marriage, mortal Rana Oceanus does the unthinkable and leaves her ancient, powerful husband, Titus, to prepare for a private battle only she understands. While Titus unleashes old spells and grand gestures to win her back, a long-kept secret threatens to upend their world.
Spellbound Falls
by Janet Chapman
2012
Olivia Baldwin runs a rustic family camp in Spellbound Falls and has no time for complicated guests, especially the unnervingly gifted Maximilian Oceanus. When Mac arrives with a newly discovered son and a trail of odd phenomena, everyday life and Atlantean magic collide in her quiet town.
Courting Carolina
by Janet Chapman
2012
Playboy trail builder Alec MacKeage rescues a woman fleeing kidnappers and offers her a hideout in the Maine woods. His guest, Jane Smith, is really Carolina Oceanus, a runaway princess whose growing feelings for Alec make anonymity—and obedience to her father—impossible.
Charmed by His Love
by Janet Chapman
2012
Road builder Duncan MacKeage just wants to finish the highway to a luxury resort, not babysit a prickly widow with four unruly kids. Peg Thompson’s fierce independence and belief that she’s cursed in love challenge him to prove his heart—and his magic—can keep her safe.
Mystical Warrior
by Janet Chapman
2011
After centuries as a red‑tailed hawk, Fiona Gregor is human again and determined to build an ordinary life in Midnight Bay. Her gruff landlord, Trace Huntsman, wants nothing to do with magic, but protecting Fiona soon becomes the one battle he can’t walk away from.
Highlander for the Holidays
by Janet Chapman
2011
Still recovering from a brutal attack, Jessie Pringle moves to Pine Creek to start over and keep people at arm’s length. Highlander Ian MacKeage and a mysterious walking stick with a hint of magic slowly coax her back into the world, offering a Christmas she never thought she’d risk.
Tempt Me If You Can
by Janet Chapman
2010
A letter revealing he has a teenage son sends polished executive Ben Sinclair deep into the Maine woods. There he meets Emma Sands, the wary aunt who raised Michael alone, and family secrets and small-town danger force all three to rethink what home and loyalty really mean.
Dragon Warrior
by Janet Chapman
2010
Nurse Maddy Kimble juggles patients, a young daughter, and needy relatives; the last thing she wants is an overbearing stranger pursuing her. Yet William Kilkenny, a centuries-old warrior once trapped in a dragon’s body, keeps crashing into her life with eerie events and fierce protectiveness.
Moonlight Warrior
by Janet Chapman
2009
Diner owner Eve Anderson is barely keeping her small coastal town and her ailing mother afloat when enigmatic Kenzie Gregor arrives and starts rescuing her at every turn. Once cursed to live as a panther, Kenzie must win Eve’s trust as otherworldly trouble closes in on Midnight Bay.
A Highlander Christmas
by Janet Chapman
2009
Burned out from her job as a NASA physicist, Camry MacKeage hides in coastal Maine, walking dogs and dodging her parents’ questions. Brilliant rival Luke Pascal arrives to coax her home for the holidays, and a visit to Pine Creek soon tangles career doubts with very magical chemistry.
The Man Must Marry
by Janet Chapman
2008
When quiet boatbuilder Willa Kent is sent to vote a shipping tycoon’s proxy, she’s stunned to learn she’ll inherit his empire—if she marries one of his grandsons. Eldest grandson Sam Sinclair proposes a temporary alliance that soon becomes far messier than business.
Secrets of the Highlander
by Janet Chapman
2008
Scientist Megan MacKeage flees home after being abandoned by fellow researcher Wayne Ferris, father of her child. Back in Pine Creek she finds the new police chief is Wayne under another name, Jack Stone, and his hidden agenda may cost them both the future they secretly want.
The Stranger in Her Bed
by Janet Chapman
2006
Heading to a remote sawmill his family is buying, Ethan Knight doesn’t expect to be fired on day one by its tough, capable foreman. Anna Segee is really the shy girl who once adored him, now a confident mill owner determined not to lose control of her life—or her heart.
The Seduction of His Wife
by Janet Chapman
2006
After being presumed dead overseas, logging baron Alex Knight comes home to Maine and discovers he’s been married by proxy to innkeeper Sarah Banks. What began as a legal arrangement for his children slowly turns into a battle of wills and unexpected desire.
The Dangerous Protector
by Janet Chapman
2005
Environmental lawyer Willow Foster returns to Puffin Harbor to investigate a tainted lobster catch—and to avoid Duncan Ross, the Scottish charmer she once treated as a fling. Duncan’s secrets and a growing coastal threat push them into a partnership neither can keep strictly professional.
Only With a Highlander
by Janet Chapman
2005
Artist Winter MacKeage, seventh daughter of a magical Highland clan, is asked to design a dream house for enigmatic businessman Matt Gregor. Drawn to his wild aura yet bound to a mystical destiny, she must choose between the future she was promised and the man she truly wants.
The Seductive Impostor
by Janet Chapman
2004
Rachel Foster wants the cliffside mansion she built with her father to stay shuttered forever, but new owner Keenan Oakes insists on reopening Sub Rosa. As strange incidents mount and buried scandals resurface, she must decide whether to trust the man claiming both the house and her heart.
Tempting the Highlander
by Janet Chapman
2004
On the run from an abusive ex, Catherine Daniels takes refuge in Pine Creek as housekeeper to Robbie MacBain, a single foster father with a perilous secret. While Robbie slips back to medieval Scotland on a mission, passion and old enemies threaten the fragile safety she’s found.
Wedding the Highlander
by Janet Chapman
2003
Fleeing a painful past, surgeon Libby Hart crashes near Pine Creek and is pulled from the water by Michael MacBain, a Highland warrior living in modern Maine. As danger and desire build, Libby must decide whether to trust a man from another time.
Loving the Highlander
by Janet Chapman
2003
Photographer Sadie Quill thinks she’s struck gold when she snaps a photo of a naked stranger beside a remote lake, only to be confronted by him. Morgan MacKeage is a time-lost Highlander whose secrets clash with Sadie’s hunt for a legendary treasure.
Charming the Highlander
by Janet Chapman
2003
After a plane crash leaves scientist Grace Sutter stranded on a frozen Maine mountaintop, her only ally is Greylen MacKeage, a medieval Highland warrior hurled through time. Survival sparks an impossible attraction that challenges everything Grace believes.
Where should I start?
If you’re new to her Highlander time-travel romances: Charming the Highlander → Loving the Highlander → Wedding the Highlander → Tempting the Highlander.
If you want a quick taste of coastal Maine romantic suspense: The Seductive Impostor → The Dangerous Protector.
If you enjoy contemporary family and business drama: The Man Must Marry → Tempt Me If You Can → It's a Wonderful Wife.
If you’re here for small-town magic and Atlantis-tinged fantasy: Spellbound Falls → Charmed by His Love → Courting Carolina → The Heart of a Hero.
If you prefer moodier paranormal romances with cursed warriors: Moonlight Warrior → Dragon Warrior → Mystical Warrior.
Author bio
Janet Chapman wrote the kind of romances that feel like stepping into a small town where everyone knows your name and at least one of the neighbors might secretly be a twelfth-century Highlander.
Born and raised in northern Maine, she grew up surrounded by woods, lakes, and long winters that left plenty of time for reading. She has described herself as a lifelong reader first, devouring everything from cereal boxes to library novels. Those quiet hours with books and the rugged landscape outside her door seeped into her imagination long before she ever thought about writing a story of her own.
Writing didn’t really call to her until she was close to forty. Wanting to read a story that existed only in her head, she sat down in a small room and wrote her first romance simply so she could enjoy it as a reader. That experiment turned into several “closet books,” manuscripts she tucked away while juggling life as a stay-at-home mom in rural Maine.
Eventually she decided that if she was going to disappear into imaginary worlds for hours at a time, she ought to see whether anyone else wanted to read them. That decision led her far outside her comfort zone to writers’ conferences and craft workshops, and finally to the sale of Charming the Highlander in 2003. The book launched a career that would take her from unpublished dreamer to New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
Her Highlander novels are often readers’ first doorway into her work. Beginning with Charming the Highlander, Loving the Highlander, and Wedding the Highlander, she follows twelfth-century warriors from the MacKeage and MacBain clans who are hurled through time into modern-day Maine. The stories mix plane crashes and prophecies, mountain storms and family dinners, letting magic brush up against everyday life instead of overshadowing it.
From there she expanded the world with the Midnight Bay trilogy and the Spellbound Falls series, bringing in cursed warriors, Atlantean wizards, and a lakeside town where locks open themselves and the sea may or may not have a bottom. Books like Moonlight Warrior, Dragon Warrior, Spellbound Falls, and For the Love of Magic lean into the paranormal while still grounding every adventure in work, family, and the messiness of real relationships.
Chapman also wrote several contemporary series with no overt magic, just the kind people carry around in their stubborn hearts. In Puffin Harbor, on the Maine coast, she gave the Foster sisters romantic-suspense stories in The Seductive Impostor and The Dangerous Protector. The Logger books follow the Knight family and their mountain logging empire, beginning with The Seduction of His Wife and The Stranger in Her Bed. The Sinclair Brothers novels—starting with The Man Must Marry and ending with It's a Wonderful Wife—blend boardroom stakes, yachts, and Maine islands with slow-burn, often funny love stories.
Away from the page, she lived in a log home on a central Maine lake with her husband, raising two sons and sharing the shoreline with loons, moose, and curious neighbors. She loved camping, fishing, hunting, and snowmobiling, often traveling the state in a camper and collecting the small details—weather, roadside diners, talkative locals—that make her fictional towns feel lived-in.
Janet Chapman died in 2017 after a long illness, but her characters have kept right on talking to readers. A final Spellbound Falls novel, Call It Magic, appeared posthumously, returning fans to the town where love is as ordinary, and as astonishing, as the sunrise over a Maine lake. For many readers, her books remain a reminder that everyday life is already threaded with magic if you know where to look.
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