Jean C. Joachim

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2011
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Amanda & Emily Mystery

1 - The Secret of the Hidden Road (May-2011)

Bottom of the Ninth

1 - Dan Alexander, Pitcher (Sep-2016)
2 - Matt Jackson, Catcher (Dec-2016)
3 - Jake Lawrence, Third Base (Feb-2017)
4 - Nat Owen, First Base (Apr-2017)
5 - Bobby Hernandez, Second Base (Jul-2017)
6 - Skip Quincy, Shortstop (Feb-2018)
7 - Will Grant, Center Field (Mar-2018)

The Catskills Saga

1 - Abigail's Journey (Nov-2020)
2 - Sarah's Dilemma (May-2022)

Echoes of the Heart

1 - Heather & Mike: The One That Got Away (May-2018)
2 - Sandy & Rafe: Second Place Heart (Jun-2018)
3 - Liz & Nick: No Regrets (Jun-2018)
4 - Paige & Bill: One Fine Day (Oct-2018)

First & Ten

1 - Griff Montgomery, Quarterback (Feb-2015)
2 - Buddy Carruthers, Wide Receiver (May-2015)
3 - Pete Sebastian, Coach (Jun-2015)
4 - Devon Drake, Cornerback (Sep-2015)
5 - Sly "Bullhorn" Brodsky, Offensive Line (Nov-2015)
6 - Al "Trunk" Mahoney, Defensive Line (Dec-2015)
7 - Harley Brennan, Running Back (Mar-2016)
8 - Overtime: The Final Touchdown (Aug-2016)
9 - A Kings' Christmas (Dec-2016)

Hollywood Hearts

1 - If I Loved You (Apr-2013)
2 - Red Carpet Romance (Jun-2013)
3 - Memories of Love (Sep-2013)
4 - Movie Lovers (Jun-2013)
5 - Love's Last Chance (Dec-2013)
6 - Lovers & Liars (Nov-2013)
7 - His Leading Lady (Jan-2014)

Manhattan Dinner Club

1 - Rescue My Heart (Mar-2014)
2 - Seducing His Heart (Mar-2014)
3 - Shine Your Love On Me (May-2014)
4 - To Love or Not to Love (Oct-2014)

Moonlight

1 - Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights (Oct-2011)
2 - April's Kiss in the Moonlight (Oct-2011)
3 - Under the Midnight Moon (May-2013)

New York Nights

1 - The Marriage List (Nov-2011)
2 - The Love List (Feb-2012)
3 - The Dating List (Nov-2012)
4 - Champagne for Christmas (Dec-2011)

Now and Forever

1 - Now and Forever, Callie's Story (Sep-2011)
2 - The Book of Danny (Nov-2011)
3 - Blind Love (Jul-2012)
4 - The Renovated Heart (Dec-2012)
5 - Love's Journey (Dec-2013)

Pine Grove

1 - Unpredictable Love (Oct-2015)
2 - Break My Heart (Nov-2017)
3 - Renovating the Billionaire (Jan-2019)
4 - You Belong to Me (Mar-2019)
5 - Just One Kiss (Jul-2019)
6 - Rewrite the Stars (Apr-2020)
7 - Some Kind of Wonderful (Mar-2021)
8 - Too Late for Goodbye (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • The Secret of the Hidden Road

    An Amanda & Emily Mystery - 1

    When two teenage sisters move to the country for the summer, they don’t expect to be saving animals or solving mysteries. As soon as Amanda & Emily Carson arrive at The Birches, their summer community, they are pulled into a rescue for a pug swept...

  • Moonlight and Roses

    Can a meddling mom find a husband for her daughter? Carolyn Davis is a beautiful, young woman, and an accomplished artist. She doesn’t think she needs help finding a man. Linda Davis, her mother, has an urgent secret. She needs to know that her dau...

  • Now and Forever, Callie's Story

    Now and Forever - 1

    Callie Richards led the life of a typical teenager until tragedy turned her world upside down. Rootless and lonely, she bumps into Kyle Maine, a handsome young man, who befriends her. Their friendship grows into a love that thrives until Kyle makes a...

  • April's Kiss in the Moonlight

    Moonlight - 2

    Fresh from graduate school, April McKenna, beautiful and brilliant vows to strike out on a new path rather than return to San Francisco to take a job with her father’s firm. She meets Rusty and sets off for an escapade that ends in tragedy. Injured...

  • Sunny Days, Moonlit Nights

    Moonlight - 1

    Do you have someone in your past you would like to reconnect with? Caroline Davis White wasn't looking for Mickey, now Mike Foster, her childhood crush, she was fleeing her philandering husband, seeking peace and quiet, time to reflect on changing he...

  • The Book of Danny

    Now and Forever - 2

  • The Marriage List

    New York Nights - 1

    Can happily-ever-after start with a list? After ten years of working, saving and investing, Grey Andrews finally achieved a level of wealth that allows him to do what he wants with his life. He needs a woman to share it with, but not any woman, the p...

  • Champagne for Christmas

    New York Nights - 4

    Can a craving for mint chip ice cream and a passion for the theater keep a summer romance hot through the freezing cold of winter? Clint is a high school English teacher and a budding playwright. Nina, a former actress, is now a beautiful and wealthy...

  • The Love List

    New York Nights - 2

    Can the swinging bachelor change his ways and become a devoted, selfless and faithful man overnight? Grey's marriage list brought them together. But when Carrie starts her own list, can Grey incorporate her ideas about love into his life? Family issu...



  • Blind Love

    Now and Forever - 3

    Can a handsome, charming, womanizing professor win the heart of a blind ballerina? Love comes to the university as Peter Caldwell, dashing Art History professor and accomplished pianist meets Lara Stewart, ballerina. Peter can’t seduce with her wit...

  • The Dating List

    New York Nights - 3

    Is Leah the woman of his dreams or a heartbreaker in disguise? Colin Andrews is blown away by her beauty, creativity and sophistication. However Leah has other plans that don’t include shepherding a younger man through an intense love affair. Taken...

  • The Renovated Heart

    Now and Forever - 4

    Can a broken heart be renovated like an old house? Kit’s life came to a halt when her husband slapped her with a divorce. Finding herself without a job or a place to live, she’s forced to take Tunney Nichols up on his offer of cheap rent for his ...

  • If I Loved You

    Hollywood Hearts - 1

    Does love always mean total truth? Successfully shunning the limelight was one way for Megan Davis to keep her family secret. The press intruded on her life when her twin brother, Mark, became the star quarterback for the Delaware Demons. A smart, su...

  • Under the Midnight Moon

    Moonlight - 3

    Can attending a wedding and a funeral on the same day change your life? Mindy Winslow’s life was altered forever when she met gorgeous lawyer, Drew Armstrong, and found out about her inheritance from her mentor, Lou. Embraced by the townsfolk at th...

  • Movie Lovers

    Hollywood Hearts - 4

  • Red Carpet Romance

    Hollywood Hearts - 2

    Why is gorgeous, rich movie star, Quinn Roberts, sharing his space with a baby he calls “Junior”, if it isn’t his own? Susanna Barnes, his beautiful live-in nanny, can’t figure him out and Quinn refuses to comment. Though wildly attracted to ...

  • Memories of Love

    Hollywood Hearts - 3

    Cara, starring in her first movie, discovers she’s pregnant. When calling Grant, her lover, to tell him, she’s blown away by his quickie marriage to Evelyn. Separated by three thousand miles, Cara must struggle on alone. Incapacitated by illness,...

  • Lovers & Liars

    Hollywood Hearts - 6

  • Love's Journey

    Now and Forever - 5

    Risking it all in their journey for love, Mac and Callie face unexpected obstacles. Making sacrifices, plus a huge measure of trust stretch their devotion to the breaking point. Callie searches for Jason’s biological dad. Uncertain as to what she...



  • Love's Last Chance

    Hollywood Hearts - 5

    Dorrie Rodgers left three men behind in New York when she moved to L.A. to dance the lead in a movie. Engagement to a powerful producer made her life complete. But an accident ended both her career and her engagement. After three years of struggling ...

  • His Leading Lady

    Hollywood Hearts - 7

    Penny Thatcher turned a successful modeling career into acting. Fleeing from a past she’d like to forget, she hides out in Las Vegas, acting in a recurring role on a television police drama. On a trip to Los Angeles, she bumps into handsome hunk, M...

  • Rescue My Heart

    Manhattan Dinner Club - 1

  • Seducing His Heart

    Manhattan Dinner Club - 2

    Inside a fashionable apartment house on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, sparks fly when tenant, Bess Cooper, as delectable as the desserts she whips up on her TV baking show, bumps into her gorgeous new neighbor Whit Bass. A well-known broadcast journ...

  • Shine Your Love On Me

    Manhattan Dinner Club - 3

    When a hot career and a hot romance collide in this sensuous story, Brooke Felsen’s life goes up in flames and her visions of corporate glory turn to ashes….She’s worked her gorgeous ass off in a Madison Avenue advertising agency 24/7, winning ...

  • To Love or Not to Love

    Manhattan Dinner Club - 4

    Miranda Bradford had given up on men. Weighed down by family “baggage”: a sick mother and a sister in design school, Miranda had become the responsible one. An aspiring playwright, she walked dogs to put food on the table. Not available for “ov...

  • Griff Montgomery, Quarterback

    First & Ten - 1

  • Sweet Love Remembered

    A story of forgiveness, hope, and the power of love. Blown apart by a heart-rending tragedy, Matt and Perri Jessup went their separate ways; he to Afghanistan and she to New York City. With loss and heartbreak coming between them, was there any reaso...

  • Buddy Carruthers, Wide Receiver

    First & Ten - 2

    Known for his record-breaking stats and womanizing ways, wide receiver, Buddy Carruthers, would give it all up for one chance to win the only woman he ever wanted, Emmy Meacham. Hard-won games, and traveling half the season kept Buddy from pursuing h...

  • Pete Sebastian, Coach

    First & Ten - 3

    Pete Sebastian, Coach Bass to his team, thought he had his life under control until smart, alluring Jo Parker sashayed into a front office job with the Connecticut Kings. He locks horns with the beautiful female when she implements new ideas to clean...



  • Devon Drake, Cornerback

    First & Ten - 4

    Devon Drake, star cornerback, has it all: hot super model girlfriend and pro football career, or does he? A childhood friend wanders back into his life, upsetting his ideal existence. Is it finally time to tell her the truth about what happened fifte...

  • Unpredictable Love

    Pine Grove - 1

    When SSGT Trent Stevens receives a letter and hot picture from Jory Walker, he thinks his dreams have come true. Deployed in Afghanistan, the lonely soldier writes back right away and waits impatiently for a reply.  Uh oh. Amber signed her siste...

  • Sly "Bullhorn" Brodsky, Offensive Line

    First & Ten - 5

    Sly “Bullhorn” Brodsky wished winning the heart of Samantha Drake was as easy as protecting his quarterback. A top offensive lineman in the NFL, Bull tried to live down his rep as a womanizer. Locker room chatter had elevated him to the level of ...

  • Tuffer's Christmas Wish

    When he turned eighteen, Tuffer Demson had given up on getting his one special Christmas wish. At twenty-three, the tough pro football defensive lineman turned his energies toward helping the Connecticut Kings win the Super Bowl and courting the coac...

  • Al "Trunk" Mahoney, Defensive Line

    First & Ten - 6

    When his wife walked out on him, Al “Trunk” Mahoney’s plans for the family he’d never had went up in smoke. A top-ranked defenseman in the NFL, Trunk’s success on the gridiron didn’t translate to the rest of his life. Hooking up with wome...

  • Harley Brennan, Running Back

    First & Ten - 7

    Harley Brennan and Shyla Hollings agreed to part company to follow their careers. It was a mutual decision. The star running back had no problem getting dates, but never the right dates. After one year spent trying to replace the only woman he’d ev...

  • Overtime: The Final Touchdown

    First & Ten - 8

    What happens after the last concussion? How long does an engagement last without turning into marriage? Is an unplanned pregnancy a dream come true or a nightmare? Real life takes over for the Connecticut Kings when the football season ends. Catch th...

  • Dan Alexander, Pitcher

    Bottom of the Ninth - 1

    Fed up with cheating women, Dan Alexander, star pitcher for the New York Nighthawks, grew restless. Searching for something more than a bar babe, he zeroed in on a girl in the stands. He never expected to see a beautiful chick pushing frankfurters. B...

  • A Kings' Christmas

    First & Ten - 9

    Stress over making the playoffs at holiday time can’t compete with the tensions in the homes of the star players on the Connecticut Kings. From Trunk Mahoney’s shattered dream of a Currier & Ives Christmas to the secret Lauren is keeping from Gri...

  • Matt Jackson, Catcher

    Bottom of the Ninth - 2

    Matt Jackson, clutch hitter, fielder extraordinaire, and team captain, is dynamite on the baseball field, but a loser with women. Or is he? He makes a show of coming on to chicks in bars, but always strikes out. Convinced being dateless is safer, Mat...



  • Jake Lawrence, Third Base

    Bottom of the Ninth - 3

    An off-season adventure, driving his expensive, new car from L.A. to New York, got Jake Lawrence’s motor running. Free from his snooty, Park Avenue girlfriend, the third baseman hit the highway, ready for anything. Or so he thought. Kate MacKenzie,...

  • Nat Owen, First Base

    Bottom of the Ninth - 4

    What would you do if the hottest new female country music singer, asked you to come up to her place? Nat Owen, formerly nobody from nowhere, now World Series MVP, followed his instincts. The star first baseman fell under the spell of the singer the m...

  • Bobby Hernandez, Second Base

    Bottom of the Ninth - 5

    Star Nighthawk second baseman, Bobby Hernandez, shunned groupies looking to share his bed and his bank account. Seeking a woman who would help him recapture the Dominican culture he’d lost was like finding a four-leaf clover…until he met smart, s...

  • The House-Sitter's Christmas

    At Christmas, Laura Fleming lived her fantasy adventure. Paid to house-sit for the fabulously wealthy financier, C.W. Banley, while he traveled, she eagerly headed for New York City. As mistress of his elegant townhouse, she baked cookies and dressed...

  • Break My Heart

    Pine Grove - 2

    Men envied Breaker Winslow and women wanted to sleep with him. As a top cover model with a budding acting career, he embodied every man’s dream. Living in a townhouse in Manhattan, Rick Breaker Winslow had everything he ever wanted. When fire rippe...

  • Skip Quincy, Shortstop

    Bottom of the Ninth - 6

    One minute ten-year-old Skip Quincy was riding in the backseat of his parents’ car, the next, he woke up in Little Angels orphanage. Within six months, he was adopted. He was welcomed by Mrs. Quincy, the woman he learned to call “mom”, but Mr. ...

  • Will Grant, Center Field

    Bottom of the Ninth - 7

    After years of playing in the minors, Will Grant is called up to the majors as the new starting centerfielder for the N.Y. Nighthawks. He worked hard to achieve his dream. Moving on from his occasional girlfriend, Will's not looking for a...

  • Heather & Mike: The One That Got Away

    Echoes of the Heart - 1

    Mike Sullivan’s dating Amy, the perfect woman. Everyone says she is, even his best friend, Bill. She urges him to move in with her, and he agrees. To Mike, living together means getting engaged. He’s picked out the ring and is ready to pop the qu...

  • Liz & Nick: No Regrets

    Echoes of the Heart - 3

    Called “the Odd Couple” in high school, brainy Liz and athletic Nick hit it off. From tutor and pupil to lovers, they formed a tight bond "until college. Heading off in different directions, they agreed to cut their ties with no regrets. That w...

  • Sandy & Rafe: Second Place Heart

    Echoes of the Heart - 2

    Torn between two men proposing marriage, Sandy accepted Lyle, and moves in with him. After months of watching their love slip away, she thinks things couldn’t get worse. Wrong. Sliding from heartbreak to humiliation on national television, Sandy be...



  • Echoes of the Heart Anthology

    Missed opportunities? The wrong place at the wrong time? What makes a man or a woman turn away from the one who could be their partner for a lifetime? There are as many reasons as people on Earth. A man who made a mistake, a woman who picked the wro...

  • Paige & Bill: One Fine Day

    Echoes of the Heart - 4

    Can a guy fall for a girl for a lifetime when he’s only sixteen? Bill Landeau never forgot Paige Overton. Even as a summer camp crush, she’d become the gold standard. He’d never met a woman who could compete with Paige. Twelve years later, chan...

  • The Final Slapshot

    Harry “Deke” Edwardss is a Hartford Husky defenseman known to be tricky, fast, and unbreakable. An amazing defensive lunge in a playoff game ends in a life-threatening injury. But Harry’d bounce back. He always did, didn’t he? Kitty, his wife...

  • Santa's Surprise

    When Connecticut Kings star football player, Keith Wilson, asks his actress sister, Molly, to sub for him at the annual Christmas party for kids, she refuses. Although he manipulates her into agreeing, she turns the tables by extracting a reluctant p...

  • Renovating the Billionaire

    Pine Grove - 3

    Get rid of the house and sell the land. Bulldozing the broken-down mansion billionaire Stryker Alexander West inherited solves an annoying problem. Busy launching a new venture, he doesn’t have time to waste on sentiment. Taking down the historic b...

  • You Belong to Me

    Pine Grove - 4

    Cal promised to wait for her. It was only for one year while Giselle pursued her dream job in Paris. Devastated when he marries someone else, she remains in Europe. When her failing eyesight forces her to abandon her work, she returns to Pine Grov...

  • Just One Kiss

    Pine Grove - 5

    Advised by his son’s school to up his game as a single parent, arrogant ex-baseball star, Rusty Reisse, takes a hiatus from his broadcasting career to spend the summer with his son.

    Rusty hopes to bond with Tommy in rural Pine Grove. H...

  • Hanukkah Hearts

    Relocated to New York City from the Midwest, Becky Cohen follows her dream by snagging a choice entry level job at Homes and Ralph Publishing. Hanukkah is not a recognized holiday there, so Becky must remain in New York.Squished into a tiny two-bedro...

  • Christmas Duet

    Sheriff Don Armstrong can't believe what he sees when he shines his flashlight on someone breaking and entering –a beautiful woman. What's a woman wearing expensive suede boots doing climbing in a window? And why is such a fancy perp in Pine Gr...

  • Rewrite the Stars

    Pine Grove - 6

    Fleeing from the altar three times brands Flint McKay as a serial proposer. He swears each proposal is genuine and real. Yet, when it comes time to tie the knot, his heart isn't in it. What drives him away from marriage? He has no clue. No, the answe...

  • Unforgettable

    ALL UNFORGETTABLE   Trained to identify disease --vanquish it, cure it, Cary Metcalf, a small-town doctor, travels to New York City to volunteer at Empire Hospital during the pandemic. Not knowing what to expect, he's horrified by room...

  • Abigail's Journey

    The Catskills Saga - 1

    Abigail Chesney has it all; a husband more loving than she could have dreamt, three healthy children, and a house on thriving farmland. She's happy in her little world until it crashes down around her. Losing almost everything tests Abby in ways she...

  • The Christmas Party

    What do you get for Christmas for your best friend who has everything? A date with her forever-crush, right? Aaron and Patrice have been best friends since high school. This year, instead of a bottle of perfume or a new scarf, he has the supreme surp...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Pine Grove - 7

       Life sucks for Jeff Barrett. His girlfriend hates his hometown, and his mother hates his girlfriend. His alcoholic father dies and leaves his ramshackle bar to Jeff. He can't even tear down the dilapidated building because it's landmarke...

  • Sarah's Dilemma

    The Catskills Saga - 2

    It's 1788, in Fitch's Eddy. Sarah Chesney, almost eighteen, decides she's ready for marriage, but is she? She picks Josiah, a strong, decent young man from her own class, but keeps the choice to herself.Just as she sets her cap for him, haughty, rich...

  • Maggie's Story

    Thrust out of her home in England at 19, Maggie travels across the pond to New York City where she takes a job as a hotel chambermaid. Her luck changes when she's hired as maid and nanny to a wealthy couple.John, the proper English chauffeur and vale...

  • Too Late for Goodbye

    Pine Grove - 8

    Marty McKay gives up on finding Miss Right in his small town. Dragged to the Pine Grove square dance by his brother, Marty meets gorgeous Jenny Whitman.A young widow with two kids isn't exactly on Marty's Christmas list, even if she is hot. And her b...

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Jean C. Joachim has published 66 books.

Jean C. Joachim does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Too Late for Goodbye, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Jean C. Joachim, The Secret of the Hidden Road, was published in May 2011.

Yes. Jean C. Joachim has 11 series.
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