Janet Dailey. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2463-7
Jaded Denver cop Paula Lewis tries to get into the holiday spirit by joining a group of volunteers at a local mansion that is being extravagantly decorated as a Christmas showpiece. Through an unnecessary traffic stop she encounters hunky cowboy...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little Brown and Company $19.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-316-17142-7
Prolific, bestselling romance writer Dailey ( Rivals ; Heiress ; etc.) casts her spell this time in the splendid decay and corruption of New Orleans, where beautiful Remy Jardin returns after being mysteriously knocked on the head at Carnival in...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-316-17165-6
Having made her mark in the contemporary romance genre, Dailey (Tangled Vines) returns to historical fiction with a bleak tale of the Cherokee Nation in which the history packs more punch than the narrative. In the early 1830s, the State of Georgia...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-316-17205-9
Despite its predictable love story, this Civil War saga provides a fascinating look at Cherokee Indians as plantation owners and slaveholders, and at the conflicts that arose within the Cherokee Nation as a result of the war. This sequel to The...
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Janet Dailey, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-017698-3
Bestselling romance writer Dailey (Notorious) has ventured into the field of suspense, and the result is an uneasy marriage that honors neither genre. Beautiful security expert Delaney Westcott drinks Scotch and travels in a pinstriped jumpsuit, but
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Janet Dailey, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0441-7
Debuting in 1981, the eight western romances chronicling the saga of Montana's Calder family are the superstars among Dailey's more than 100 books. This ninth novel follows young ex-lawman Quint Echohawk (a grandson of the series' original...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $25 (358p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5576-1
Bestseller Dailey (Santa in a Stetson) launches a new series with this well-paced but unremarkable love story between an injured cop and the intriguing artist who inspires him. Roped into unofficially reopening a cold missing persons case by a...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5577-8
Bestseller Dailey’s second Bannon Brothers contemporary western (after Trust) attempts suspense but never reaches a satisfying conclusion. Middle brother Linc Bannon sees news footage of a horrible car accident and recognizes the license plate of...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2462-0
The charm begins and ends with the title of this weak holiday romance. The concept is winsome enough: Sam Bennett, a handsome and gallant cowboy—complete with Stetson he only reluctantly removes—comes to New York in December to help a college friend
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Janet Dailey, Author Little Brown and Company $18.95 (395p) ISBN 978-0-316-17140-3
Instead of shrinking from cliches, Dailey rushes to embrace them with a fervor that brings passion and fun to the tale she spins, making the latest novel by the author of the bestselling Calder series a sure-fire winner for her fans. Flame Morgan,...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61773-310-9
Lovely Annie Bennett, younger sister of previous Dailey heroes Zach and Sam, reluctantly returns to her parents’ Colorado ranch to recover after a skiing accident in Aspen. When Marshall Stone, an inevitably handsome and mysterious stranger, appears
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Janet Dailey. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3509-1
Dailey's standalone contemporary western never quite hits its stride. Kylie takes her children home to the small town of Branding Iron, Tex. She hopes to repair her life, but feels helpless without a man around. When a series of poor decisions...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $26 (268p) ISBN 978-0-7582-9401-2
The always-reliable Dailey’s latest contemporary Western romance takes place in the outskirts of Blanco Springs, Tex., in the third of Tylers of Texas series (following 2015’s Texas Tough). For decent, upright people, the Tylers seem to garner more...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4006-4
Dailey’s latest Christmas-themed novel features a classic roadside meet cute. When Jess Ramsey’s car falters in Branding Iron, Tex., near the last known home of her birth mother, Francine McFadden, she is fortunate that help arrives in the form of...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (312p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4010-1
In romance legend Dailey’s touching first Americana novel (set in present-day Arizona’s Sonoran Desert), wayward veteran Jake O’Reilly finally returns home after spending three years running from his wartime PTSD and his grief over the death of his...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (477p) ISBN 978-0-316-17092-5
In her 13th novel, Dailey (Santiago Blue polishes her popular style to a high sheen. Born into a wealthy Texas family, Abby Lawson grows up on the beautiful, sprawling ranch where her father Dean breeds Arabian horses; in California, her...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Kensington $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0066-2
Trodding the familiar terrain of the western romance with practiced skill, veteran novelist Dailey returns again to the Calder clan and its Triple C Montana ranch. Ty Calder has recovered from the kidnap/shooting that ended Calder Pride, and he and...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Zebra $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7225-6
Since romance novels aimed at the December holidays must ultimately resolve in a warm 'n' fuzzy, family-friendly manner, the question here is not whether relationships will work out, but rather whether all the lonely people will pair up...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Kensington $24 (296p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0067-9
Dailey, veteran author of more than 100 romance novels, seven of which belong to the Calder family saga (Green Calder Grass, etc.), adds another immensely readable installment to this two-decades-old series. At the novel's outset, patriarch...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Zebra $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7611-7
The theme of this book's two seasonal tales—unexpected true love as the ultimate Christmas gift—is timeless, but the stories themselves are dated. Advertised as "completely revised," the stories, which were originally...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Kensington $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0440-0
In her eighth dip into the Calder story pool, prolific romance writer Dailey focuses on Laura Calder, the 21-year-old granddaughter of crusty Montana millionaire Chase Calder. The young woman is fresh out of college and making the obligatory rich-kid
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Janet Dailey, Author . Zebra $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7749-7
In Lord of the High Lonesome
, the first entry in this two-tale holiday offering, Kit Bonner, feisty North Dakota ranch manager, is antagonized at first sight by the spread's powerfully masculine and arrogant absentee owner, who immediately one-u
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Janet Dailey, Author . Zebra $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7919-4
Tissue-thin characterization, minimal backstories and a lack of sexual chemistry mar bestseller Dailey's latest, which consists of two rewritten romances, Bride of the Delta Queen
(1978) and Northern Magic
(1982). In Bride
, Selena Merrick is...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Kensington $24 (375p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0442-4
Fans of bestseller Dailey's romantic westerns will relish this ninth entry (after Lone Calder Star
) in her series about the Montana ranching dynasty of the title. When Trey Calder, fifth generation scion and handsome heir to Triple C Ranch,...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Kensington $22 (313p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1984-8
Known for her popular Calder saga set in Montana (Calder Storm
, etc.), Dailey turns her attention to the Ten Bar Ranch, near Glory, Wyo. (pop. 51), run by a young, laid-back widower, Luke McCallister. Still grieving over losing his family four...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Zebra $6.99 (323p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0664-0
Bestseller Dailey (Searching for Santa
) pens a throwback western romance for her annual holiday offering. During a photo shoot on a Texas ranch, fashion model Diana Palmer is so entranced by sexy cowboy Lije Masters that within days she decides to...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $19.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-316-17146-5
Lethargic and entirely predictable, this latest romance from the author of Masquerade finds aspiring actress Kit Masters returning to her ranch, Silverwood, and to her hometown of Aspen, Colo., to film a movie that should not only make her a...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $21.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-316-17156-4
Dailey's latest novel (after Aspen Gold ), which all but begs to be made into a TV miniseries, features elegant nonegarian Katherine Rutledge, who runs her family's Napa Valley winery. Katherine is beset by problems caused by her estranged son, who...
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Janet Dailey, Author Little Brown and Company $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-17153-3
Lyrical paeans to Colorado's beauty elevate this lethargic and predictable tale of actress Kit Masters, whose return to her hometown, Aspen, Colo., allows her to film a movie and court an old flame. (May)
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Janet Dailey, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017697-6
Some formulas never go out of style, and the prolific Dailey (Legacies, 1995) always mixes the ingredients well. As she has done some 90 times previously, first in Harlequin romances and later in hardcover (here for the first time for HarperCollins),
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Janet Dailey, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-06-017699-0
Fifteen years after Calder Born, Calder Bred, the last novel in her popular family saga, and two years after her well-publicized legal battle with Nora Roberts, who successfully sued her for plagiarism (Dailey's stressful domestic situation was...
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Janet Dailey, Author . Zebra $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7224-9
Jocelyn Wakefield, the president's gorgeous unmarried daughter, receives more press attention than Jackie in her heyday. Longing for a single day without scrutiny, she enlists her grandmother's aid, dons a disguise and escapes into...
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Janet Dailey, Cathy Lamb, Mary Carter, and Elizabeth Bass. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4201-2419-4
This unrewarding collection of “lost love” contemporary romance novellas manages to depress more than excite. Lamb’s “The Apple Orchard,” about a traumatized woman coming to terms with her past so she can reunite with an old flame, has a compelling...
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Lori Wilde, Janet Dailey, Cat Johnson, and Kate Pearce. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4262-4
Set against the backdrop of Ellie and Brady’s cowboy wedding, this contemporary romance anthology is chock-full of clichés, starting with four couples who meet at the wedding. There are some nice twists, such as Air Force pilot Shane serving as...
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Lori Wilde et al. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (325p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4677-6
When small-town society bride Savannah Loving jumps on her uncle Tom’s Ducati to bolt from her wedding at the bucolic Bluebird Inn, it sets the stage for Wilde’s “The Wedding That Wasn’t,” the first of the four linked romance stories collected here.
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (296p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4561-8
Dailey (My Kind of Christmas) delivers a heartwarming Christmas tale ideal for fans of sweet contemporaries. Veterinarian J.T. “Rush” Rushford moves to Branding Iron, Tex., from Phoenix, Ariz., after his ex-wife reveals that she’s having an affair—an
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $16.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4967-4773-0
The latest ghostwritten outing under the name of the late bestseller Dailey (1944–2013) is a cookie-cutter small-town contemporary. Recently divorced Ruth McCoy moves home to Branding Iron, Tex., and gives up on finding love, with good reason: “Her...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5361-3
Dailey’s emotionally rich seventh New Americana romance (after Hope Creek) sees Kelly Jenkins, 34, arriving in small town Blue Moon Haven, Ala., to assume managership of the local drive-in movie theater with two small children in tow. Kelly’s been...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2746-6
In Dailey’s intense third Calder Brand romance (after Calder Grit), love ignites between a WWI veteran and a frontier town doctor. U.S. Army Maj. Logan Hunter accepts distant cousin Webb Calder’s offer to start anew in 1919 Blue Moon, Mont., after...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5108-4
Dailey’s fifth Christmas Tree Ranch novel (after Santa’s Sweetheart) offers a satisfying combination of intrigue and romance. Journalist and divorced single father Cooper Chapman moves to Branding Iron, Tex., eager to reconnect with his sister,...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2737-4
Dailey’s third Champions romance (after Whiplash) sizzles with suspense and sexual tension as the relationship between reluctant business partners goes from professional to personal. Tess Champion has no choice but to allow rancher Brock Tolman to...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5107-7
Things get complicated when a student decides to play cupid for her commitment-phobic teacher in Dailey’s humdrum fourth Christmas Tree Ranch romance (after Holding Out for Christmas). First-grade teacher Grace Chapman has just turned runaway bride...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2744-2
Dailey (1944–2013) posthumously launches a spin-off to her Calder series with this fast-paced return to the 19th-century American West. Sixteen-year-old Joe Dollarhide is working on a cattle drive for Chase Benteen Calder when he meets beautiful...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $8.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5106-0
The cute second romance in Dailey’s Christmas Tree Ranch series (after My Kind of Christmas) follows a formulaic plot but manages to liven things up a bit with Christmas spirit and fascinating supporting characters. Nashville kindergarten teacher...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $26 (266p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0959-2
This old-school but lively romance from Dailey is a fitting conclusion to her Tylers of Texas series (following Texas Free). Nineteen-year-old Erin Tyler has just lost her mother to cancer and a close friend to a freak accident. She’s also on the...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $7.99 mass market (276p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4491-8
Dailey’s middling contemporary set in Branson, Mo., invites a third person into Allison and Burke Caldwell’s marriage: his deceased wife, Kate. Six years into Allison and Burke’s marriage, Allison is still treated as a trophy wife by Burke’s friends
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (282p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4560-1
There is nothing romantic about this gloomy holiday tale. When former cop Travis Morgan returns to Branding Iron, Tex., after serving three years in prison, the only thing he expects to get is solitude on his run-down family ranch. Mayor Maggie...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $26 (261p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0958-5
Dailey continues the saga of the Tyler family and Rimrock Ranch with this addictive sixth installment (after Texas Fierce). At 14, Rose Landro had to flee to Mexico after killing the man who killed her grandfather. Twelve years later, she’s forced...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (291p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4490-1
The thrill outshines the romance in Dailey’s newest Americana novel. After quitting her elementary school teaching job and moving to Alaska, Emily Hunter quickly learns that her intended husband, Boone Swenson, is a scary con man. When pilot and...
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Janet Dailey. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-1-4201-4008-8
When pregnant divorcée Ellie Marsden, the heroine in Dailey’s third Cowboy Christmas contemporary, returns to Branding Iron, Tex., her plan is to give birth surrounded by family and then hightail it to another big city as soon as she and her child...
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Janet Dailey. Kensington, $26 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4967-0957-8
Dailey’s easy prose pairs perfectly with the low-key Texas town revisited in her fourth Tylers of Texas contemporary (after Texas Tall). With aspirations of being a rodeo star, 20-year-old Virgil “Bull” Tyler is breaking his neck riding the meanest...
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