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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1980
  • Latest Book:
    February 2004
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Full Series List in Order

The American Quilt

1 - The Pattern (Jun-1996)
2 - The Pledge (Jul-1996)
3 - The Promise (Aug-1996)

Brides of Montclair

1 - Valiant Bride (1985)
2 - Ransomed Bride (Jul-1986)
3 - Fortune's Bride (Feb-1987)
4 - Folly's Bride (Mar-1990)
5 - Yankee Bride (1984)
5 - Rebel Bride (Jun-1985)
6 - Gallant Bride (Mar-1988)
7 - Shadow Bride (Aug-1991)
8 - Destiny's Bride (Jan-1988)
9 - Jubilee Bride (Aug-1992)
10 - Mirror Bride (Jun-1993)
11 - Hero's Bride (Dec-1993)
12 - Senator's Bride (Apr-1994)
13 - Montclair Homecoming (Oct-1994)
14 - Daring Bride (Jul-1997)
15 - Courageous Bride (Apr-1998)

Edgecliffe Manor Mysteries

1 - Web of Deception (Mar-1996)
2 - Shadow of Fear (Sep-1996)
3 - A Perilous Bargain (May-1997)
4 - Thread of Suspicion (Oct-1998)
5 - A Sinister Silence (Jun-2001)

Orphan Train West

1 - The Heart's Lonely Secret (Oct-1994)
2 - Homeward the Seeking Heart (Oct-1990)
3 - Quest for Lasting Love (Sep-1990)
4 - Dreams of a Longing Heart (Oct-1990)

Orphan Train West (Young Adult)

1 - Laurel (Jan-2000)
2 - Ivy and Allison (Jan-2000)
3 - Kit (Jan-2000)
4 - Toddy (Jan-2000)
5 - April and May (Aug-2000)

Westward Dreams

1 - Runaway Heart (Oct-1994)
2 - Promise of the Valley (May-1995)
3 - Where Tomorrow Waits (Jun-1995)
4 - A Distant Dawn (Oct-1995)
5 - Undaunted Spirit (Aug-1999)

Book List in Order: 54 titles



  • Anne had to keep reminding herself that she was an American student at the University of Madrid. True, she was a replica of the Nordic beauty that Miguel de Ortega had married. But how had she let the handsome, compelling stranger convince her to pla...



  • Shocked by her broken engagement, Cameron Forrest blindly accepted Justin Bradford's offer to come to Gull's Glen and paint the portrait of the famous author's beautiful young bride. In the peace and privacy of the magnificent Big Sur ...



  • After her father lost his job, Lori Bennett's life changed drastically. No more spending sprees and attending Hillcrest Academy, an exclusive school, was impossible. -- Thrust into the world of public school at Murray High, Lori was bitter and ...



    • / Historical Romance
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    Rose Meredith Montrose Out of the North she came -- beautiful, cultured, well-educated -- to become the bride of Malcolm Montrose, a wealthy southern planter. It was another world Rose Meredith found at Montclair, the magnificent Montrose plan...



  • "Robbie was jolted upright, horrified. . . ." Robbie Mallory thought, Ty is on that plane, as the full meaning of the television news bulletin hit her. He was the pilot being held at gunpoint by a hijacker. Precious moments they had shared together ...



    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Romantic Jessamyn Baird had to pinch herself to realize she wasn't dreaming. She really was in Great Britain on a trip she had wanted to take all of her life. But it wouldn't last forever. Soon she would have to make some hard choices about her futur...



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    Happiness and fulfillment, heartbreak and tragedy, faith and triumph--the unfolding panorama of "The Brides of Montclair." MONTCLAIR--The magnificent ancestral home of the Montrose family, built on an original King's Grant along the James River. B...



  • If I can't have Malcolm, I will be mistress of Montclair!... A woman of passion and pride, Garnet Cameron is thwarted in her plan to marry Malcolm Montrose, the man of her childhood dreams, when he claims a Northern bride. In a reckless rebound Garne...



  • She tried to act as if nothing had happened... But Ardith Winslow felt her whole world collapsing as the full meaning of the announcement hit her. Gavin Parrish will be performing here, she thought, on the smal college campus where she had finall...






  • "I must believe that, she reminded herself. It is all I have." Lorabeth Whitaker has fled an unacceptable marriage arranged by her mother in England, only to fall in love with a handsome young Virginia planter, Cameron Montrose, whose marriage to ...



  • Avril was just a child when tragedy struck and took her parent's lives. If not for the kindness of her father's friend Graham Montrose, the frightened heiress would have been all alone in the world. Thankfully this quiet handsome stranger welcomed Av...



  • "Even while Randall was speaking, it was Pietro I saw, the tenderness in his dark eyes looking at me, the caress in his soft voice. In Randall's voice there was not a shred of emotion; nor was there any in his expression. How should I respond? Wha...



  • Would she ever be accepted as a wife....as a Montrose...as a woman? It is a long journey from Blythe Dorman's ranch home in Lucas Valley, California, to the ancestral Virginia mansion of her new husband, Malcolm Montrose. There are mountains of de...



  • Sara! You must come out! You're wanted downstairs right away, Lucie hissed through the keyhole on the locked bedroom door. Stepmama is furious and Father has sent word that he's coming home early from the Exchange. She says he's in a rage over what y...



  • Dainty, beautiful Laurel is placed at Greystone when her loving, gravely ill mother enters a sanitarium. Laurel is adopted from the Orphan Train by Dr. and Mrs. Woodward, who still grieve for their daughter they lost only two years before. She brings...



  • It is the spring of 1890.Three eight-year-old girls leave overcrowded, bleak Greystone orphanage near Boston and set out together on the "Orphan Train" heading West to adoptive homes. Along the way, the little girls - shy, delicate Laurel, vivacious,...



  • Left at Greystone by her actress mother, exuberant Toddy joins the household of Octavia Vale, a wealthy, reserved widow who seeks a companion for her invalid granddaughter, Helene. Before long, Toddy wins their hearts and transforms their gloomy hous...



  • Who would want Juliette dead...and why? For Juliette, the Octagon House was a place of painful and bitter memories... Memories of the tragic accident that claimed her mother's life... Memories of the heartbreaking abandonment by her precious l...



  • For Rod it was a moment out of a thousand dreams. Yet the reality was more than he could have imagined. "Blythe!" He said her name and in his voice was all the hope he'd thought was lost. The woman he saw was even lovelier than the girl he remembered...






  • A BLESSING IN DISGUISE--OR A NIGHTMARE COME TRUE? For years, Blessing McCall was haunted by her dreams ... A chilling dream of childhood, a single dreadful night, buried deep in her own memory. Beyond that night lurked a forgotten past ... And ...



  • The lake held special memories of her times with Jeff. Here they had spent hours talking, feeding the swans, and skipping pebbles across the smooth surface, creating circles within circles. One afternoon in particular Faith remembered. Jeff had kisse...



  • When Stacey Thornton learns that a maiden aunt bequeathed to her a mansion and land on the scenic coast of northern California, she leaves her home and job in a San Francisco art gallery to check out her unexpected inheritance. Upon her arrival in Wo...



  • "Why, Cara, why did you do it?" "Maybe no one wants to see me as I really am. Maybe in this family it isn't all right to be different. And I am different, Kitty, whether anyone wants to admit it or not." "But, Cara,--it just seems like tonight you se...



  • 'You see I must go, don't you, Kitty?' Kip asked. Everything in her cried out, No, I don't understand. What about her dreams, her desires, the life they had planned together? Then she remembered the epitaph on the head-stone in the old hillside cem...



  • "Have you any plans for the rest of the day?" he asked. "Plans?" she echoed. "Whatever they were, cancel them." He grinned. Crystal nodded, dazed, knowing somehow that if he had proposed a trip to Mars she would have been helpless to refuse. She had ...



  • On board the Orphan Train, Ivy befriends Allison, whose angelic features and charming attire will almost certainly win her a new home. Ivy worries that she herself will be looked over by prospective parents. Not willing to be left behind, the lonely,...



  • When Joy Montrose received her commission to paint a mural depicting the healing miracles of Jesus at Good Samaritan Hospital, she never anticipated forming a close friendship with Evan Marshall. But the bond between the talented young artist and the...



  • 'End of the line!' The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to the be the end of the line for her? she had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement...



  • When Southern-born Adelaide Pride follows her Yankee employer to California, she faces a private civil war and re-examines her values of love and honor. Twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Pride stepped out of the horse-drawn buggy to gaze one last time at ...






  • Penny Sayres' red hair, freckle-splashed skin, and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed -- because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! S...



  • When headstrong Sunny sets off to join the wagon train to California, she finds more adventure than she had planned. Following the death of their parents, twenty-four-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comforts and saf...



  • When Rachel Penniston takes a post as governess in an isolated mansion on the Cornish Coast, she is swept up in the intrigue of her surroundings and in her unexpected attraction to a handsome stranger. The atmosphere of Talisman abruptly changes, how...



  • Johanna Shelby could never have anticipated where that "fateful encounter" would lead her. She could not have known then how love for the young, rough-hewn, mountain doctor would cause her to turn her back on her privileged lifestyle, threaten to est...



  • For the sake of peace in the family, Jo-Beth kept her feelings to herself. But she and Wes were pledged to each other, and nothing could change that. Not even war. With the death of her father, Jo-Beth and her family, moved in with relatives. There, ...



  • She was of American blood, born in the islands. He was a native islander. Their love bridged two worlds that would one day threaten to tear them apart. As a child, Jana Rutherford played barefoot on the sparkling Hawaiian beaches with her friend, ...



  • When Challys Winthrop promises her dying mother to take care of her little brother, Ty, she knows it means keeping him away from her demented stepfather. But in order to do so, she is forced to go against her guileless nature and devise an elaborate ...



  • This tale of love and intrigue is set in the misty cliffs of Ireland where Oriel finds herself in remote castle where she discerns that she has a mysterious enemy-- as well as growing romantic feelings which leave her troubled in spirit. Oriel Ban...



  • Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write. Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, he...



  • WHERE THE HEART IS Stranded and dreading the holiday season, Coryn Dodge just wanted to get home to the comfort of a family visit. But when her eyes caught the dark gaze of a handsome stranger, somehow she knew this man had also loved...and lost. ...






  • Niki's heart was thrumming as the taxi stopped with a jerk in front of the gray, stone building behind tall, black iron gates. On a metal plaque was engraved Les Soeurs de Merci. Niki thrust several franc notes staring through the rungs of the gate. ...



  • When Nell Winston is offered a position as a companion to Allegra Selkirk, a young woman who has been paralyzed in a carriage accident, she considers this unexpected opportunity a welcome change from her job as dining room hostess at a seaside resort...



  • VALERIE COULDN'T AFFORD TO TRUST ANYONE WITH HER SECRETS And though it was hard to resist a man as kind and caring as her new neighbor, Garth, appeared to be, the man was still a stranger, no matter how handsome and friendly. Yet as the summer ...



  • Free-spirited journalist Independence McClaren follows her heart to a Colorado silver-town -- and a test of her fierce commitment to the truth. Mindy’s birth name is Independence McClaren -- a fitting match for her tenacity and determination. Leavi...



  • Abridged from The Heart's Lonely Secret It is spring 1883. Eight-year-old Ivy Austin dreams about leaving the overcrowded, bleak Greystone Orphanage near Boston, but when her life takes a strange turn, she ends up heading West on the Orphan Train ...



  • Abandoned by her widowed father, Kit rides the Orphan Train west where a farm family takes her in to help with chores, never expecting that one day she would overcome all the obstacles before her and become a successful writer....



  • Shy, sensitive Laurel is placed at Greystone when her seriously ill mother enters a sanitarium. After her mother’s death, Laurel joins the Orphan Train and is adopted by the town doctor, Lee Woodward, and his wife, who are still grieving for the da...



  • After her mother leaves six-year-old Toddy at the county children's home, she is chosen by a minister's wife to go West on the Orphan Train and is taken in by a wealthy widow as a companion for her sickly granddaughter....



  • For Midwestern girl Elyn Ross, moving to San Francisco to become a commercial artist was a dream come true. Until she lost her way amidst the dazzling glitter of her new boyfriend's privileged world and turned her back on everything she'd been brough...



  • It is winter 1895. Three-year-old May and her four-year-old sister, April, have reluctantly been given up by their young mother for adoption and are sent from Boston on the Orphan Train to Emeryville, Arkansas. Although their mother had requested tha...






  • Set in turn-of-the-century England, Jane Peart's enthralling Edgecliffe Manor Mysteries series interweaves compelling intrigue, page-turning suspense, appealing characters, and rich yet subtle underlying spiritual themes. From the first book, Web of ...



  • Darcy Welburne has seen enough of politics from the long line of judges in her family. So when Grady, her fiance, tells her he is running for sheriff, she sets off to find the new freedom promised by the American West. She escapes to Juniper Junction...



  • They were as different as three cousins could be. Slender Lesley was always trying to please others; pretty Bret's life was spinning out of control; sweet Anne always fell for Mr. Wrong. Yet they had one thing in common. The grandmother they'd ado...



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    The Unhappy House had been built before the days of soaring construction costs, and even for its time, had been a showcase. It did not make sense for such a place to stand empty for so many years, to be sold for the proverbial song and back taxes. N...



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    Fern Adair must sacrifice tomorrow to save herself from the vengeance of a dead love! A Taste of Death When Reed Adair died, a foolish waste of a foolish life, he left his wife and children penniless and facing a future suddenly bleak and ter...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jane Peart has published 54 books.

Jane Peart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sandcastles, was published in February 2004.

The first book by Jane Peart, Spanish Masquerade, was published in May 1980.

Yes. Jane Peart has 6 series.