Texas Gun Smoke

TEXAS GUN SMOKE, the second book in the Colts Run Cross Series. This is sexy rancher Bart Collingsworth's story. The sensual attraction sizzles from the first moment he meets the mysterious and beautiful Jaclyn McGregor, but if he lets down his guard for a minute, he could lose his heart-and they both might lose their lives.

24 Karat Ammunition

24 KARAT AMMUNITION is the first book in the Four Brothers of Colts Run Cross Series. The Collingsworths of Texas are guaranteed to warm your heart while bringing suspense and romance to every page. If you love sexy cowboys, this series is for you!

Maverick Christmas

Josh McCain steps straight from the pages of Gentleman's Club and into the role of hero in Maverick Christmas. Chrissie Atwater is wanted for murder and on the run-but is the young mother of two adorable daughters guilty or is she is the one person who can deliver the sexy Montana sheriff and his two boisterous sons a Christmas miracle they will never forget? MAVERICK CHRISTMAS brings home the love for Christmas.

Security Measures
Harlequin Intrigue, September 2005

A provocative and satisfying story of a woman willing to pay with her heart - and maybe her life - to save her daughter from the mob's revenge.

"Beautiful, widowed, a single mother"

Beautiful, widowed, a single mother - Janice Stevens had been given a new identity, if not a new lease on life, when she testified against a mob killer. For fifteen years she'd lived anonymously, raising her daughter -- until Vincent Magilinti showed up on her doorstep claiming what was his: his child and her heart. But will both turn up dead-on-arrival when vengeance is finally exacted.

"Joanna Wayne creates sensual but chilling stories that will keep you in suspense until the very last page."
Karen Young,, USA TODAY bestselling author

The Amulet
Harlequin Intrigue, December 2005

BJ Daniels, Amanda Stevens, and Joanna Wayne, who teamed up on Texas Confidential and Moriah's Landing, are at it again with the chilling, paranormal Fernhaven Series for Harlequin Intrigue.

The luxurious Fernaven Hotel...

A retreat for the rich and famous tucked away in an isolated area of the Cascades, burned to the ground seventy years ago in a tragedy on par with the Titanic. But when the hotel is rebuilt in the same spot and almost identical to the original, it's discovered that all the guests have not departed.

The Amulet is the concluding book in the series. Eerie and frightening, the book takes us to the realm where the undead and the living cross paths and only the strong survive. But it is also a story of love that transcends death and of special bonds like those between police partners who depend on each other for their very lives every day of the year. And of the bonds of duty and family. It's a story to send chills up the spine but with a conclusion that will warm the heart.

Spend Christmas at the Fernhaven! It will be a vacation you won't forget.

The Gentleman's Club
Signature Select, June 2005

Even a "gentleman" can't get away with murder...

When Tess Shepperd, a dancer from The Fruits of Passion Gentlemen's Club, is found murdered in the New Orleans French Quarter, attorney Rachel Powers becomes obsessed with finding the killer. Just twenty-four hours earlier, a bruised and desperate Tess had turned to Rachel for help, insisting Logan McCain - heir to the McCain family fortune - had fathered her twin sons and was trying to take them from her. That makes Logan Rachel's prime suspect - in spite of a a heated attraction that flares between them.

But Logan has his own theories, and he convinces Rachel to probe deep inside The Fruits of Passion. What she finds shocks her...and has her fearing for her life. Had Tess, too, discovered what really goes on in the club's most private rooms? That some of the Big Easy's richest, most respected "gentlemen" will pay any price and go to any lengths to satisfy their darkest sexual desires. Even murder.

"Wayne spins a page-turning thriller with suspense that runs high from beginning to end and some wonderful and unexpected twists."
- 4 1/2 stars. Romantic Times

A FATHER’S DUTY
Harlequin Intrigue, September 2004
The third and final novel in the New Orleans Confidential Series

The last thing this hard-boiled Confidential operative wanted was to become entangled with junior prosecutor Georgette Delacroix, but he'd reached a dead end in his frantic search for his kidnapped daughter. So the clairvoyant Cajun beauty was Tanner Harrison's only recourse. When Georgette's disturbing visions of his daughter intensified, Tanner stumbled upon the key to finally shutting down the slimy crime network his top-secret agency had been pursuing for months. As Crescent City's paralyzing heat wave unleashed Tanner and Georgette's smoldering attraction, they breathlessly raced against time to triumph over evil!

Alligator Moon
Harlequin Books, June 2004

Deadly secrets....forbidden desires...

Lying in the shadows of the moonlight . . .

John Robicheaux lived the simple life in Cajun country — that was until his brother turned up dead in the bayou. He's be damned before he'd let that crime go unpunished. And John's suspicions about the sudden death were pointing to a medical clinic and a powerful plastic surgeon who stood accused of "losing" a high-profile client on the operating table.

Local magazine reporter Cassie Havelin had been in Beau Pierre to look into the story. But when her investigation became entangled with her mother's disappearance, Cassie was thrown straight into the strong arms of John Robicheaux. Together they had to shadow a sinister killer slithering in the murky waters . . .unless they were consumed by the darkness first.

POINT BLANK PROTECTOR Danger and Sensuality both hit the high point when Zach Collingsworth meets the sexy, independent new neighbor. Don't miss the third book in the bestselling Brothers of Colts Run Cross Series. Coming in February 2008.