Lynn Erickson

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1980
  • Latest Book:
    December 2004
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About the Author

Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen were born in in Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A. on January 22 and September 12. In the late 60s, both newly returned frombumming around the world, they met in Aspen in the Red Onion, an Old Westsaloon. They were both new brides, wet behind the ears. It was several yearslater that they dreamed up Lynn Erickson, the pseudonym a combination oftheir husbands' names. They had read every romance put out in the early 70sand started saying, "We can do better than this." Well, they couldn't, butwhat the heck? The wrote two fat novels before we chanced onto an agent andmade a sale. His first words to them: "The manuscript is flawed, but..."

They published their first novel as Lynn Erickson in 1980. Their early bookswere historical romances, full of blood and guts and murder, then theyturned to contemporary women's suspense. "We've set almost all of our booksin Colorado, especially in Aspen, a town where the truth is usually strangerthan fiction. Aspen is a character in our books, not just a setting. We loveto drop inside jokes about the quirks and fancies of our hometown. Thescenery truly is glorious, the mountains magnificent, the skiing and hikingand fishing and horseback riding legendary. We cover the arts, too - theworld-renowned music festival, the shops full of museum-quality paintingsand sculptures. Southwestern art is big, of course: paintings and potteryand Navajo rugs."

Multi-Author Series List

9 Months Later

6 - The Baby Contract (May-1996)

Class of '78

Laurel & the Lawman (Oct-1994)

Count on a Cop

3 - Child of Mine (Apr-1998)

Dreamscape

The Last Buccaneer (Jan-1994)

Reunited

Apache Springs (Aug-1995)

A Woman's Destiny

1 - A Woman of San Francisco (Nov-1982)

Women Who Dare

5 - Paradox (May-1993)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • This Raging Flower

    PASSION'S FLOWERS... With her creamy skin and golden hair, young Rebecca Merideth was an exotic English bloom in the primitive world of Afganistan. She had crossed the ocean to meet her father, but not even he could protect her from this lawless lan...

  • Sweet Nemesis

    SHE WAS TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIRE. It was a marriage of heaven and hell, a king's decree that tore the glorious Lady Madrigal, daughter of the Earl of Tarbella, from her rightful fiance and thrust her into the arms of Roderick, Baron of Halconb...

  • The Silver Kiss

    SHE WAS LURED BY A DANGEROUS FORTUNE... Erin Conner, a fiery Irish colleen with smoky topaz eyes, attracted the kind of rough and lonely men that opened the great West. Handsome, arrogant Matt Steele was no different -- except that Erin desired hi...

  • Gentle Betrayer

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE ACROPOLIS, ON THE BLISTERING MEDITERRANEAN SHORES -- THEIRS WAS A DARK DANCE OF DANGER AND PASSION! Lovely, hazel-eyed Alethea Holmes, restaurant reviewer for an international gourmet magazine, was on assignment in Athens when...

  • A Woman of San Francisco

    A Woman's Destiny - 1

    The time is the 1890s... Annette Tofler is a woman born to succeed, striving to find love, happiness and recognition in the city that inspires her -- San Francisco -- a world of riches, squalor, passionate love and vicious crime. In her love for th...

  • High Country Pride

    Tapestry - 6

    LARA CLAYTON KNEW WHAT BRANCH TAGGART WANTED. Now that her father was dead, Branch probably thought the feud was ended. But he hadn't reckoned on one person. Lara was determined that he would not own her or the ranch. It didn't help to ...

  • Dawnfire

    IN A WAR-TORN LAND, SHE WAS THE PRICE OF PEACE. She was Dawnlyn Renfrew--born on an island off the storm-tossed Scottish coast, daughter of the Earl of St. Abb. He was Gaard, a gray-eyed Viking lord. He had scaled the walls of her castle and...

  • Snowbird

    Harlequin Super Romance - 132

    SOMETIMES ONE JUST KNEW... International intrigue was not the usual preoccupation of Willy Patterson, art gallery owner, world-class skier. But she could not refuse to help an old friend take refuge in the U.S. Hyde Vandemeer, quintessential CI...

  • Lilacs

    LOVE HAD ELUDED THEM ONCE. ONLY THE BRAVEST HEARTS WOULD SEIZE A SECOND CHANCE. Sheriff Rafe Wade shunned his elegant Eastern past for the new and untamed West. But his dreams were shadowed by tragedy. Then, like a lone star in a dark sky, Ra...



  • The Faces of Dawn

    Harlequin Super Romance - 157
    Harlequin Super Romance (M&B) - 109

    HER LIFE WAS AT A CROSSROADS... But Alexandra Crawford took comfort in the prediction that she'd easily recognize her predestined path. Jake Brannigan kept getting in her way. Retired at forty-two from the police force, Jake projected the a...

  • Some Distant Shore

    A War To End All Wars... A Passion To Challenge Destiny LONDON 1917... A time of forced gaiety and weary patriotism, when the specter of war was a constant shadow. Into this volatile world came Emily Baird a gently-reared New England beauty who d...

  • A Chance Worth Taking

    Harlequin Super Romance - 184
    Harlequin Super Romance (M&B) - 120

    She was the toughest challenge of all order. Serenity. her own oil company. Until Rick Hagen came to town. Kate Cummings, owner of her own Colorado based oil company, had it all, until she met Rick Hagan, hot corporate Robin Hood. He asked her help i...

  • Stormswept

    Harlequin Super Romance - 199

    CONFIDING IN DEL MIGHT SPELL DISASTER She couldn't climb and couldn't even see without her contacts! But that didn't stop TV reporter Amy Stavin from accompanying a rescue team to Pearl Pass. Her brother Roger was up there in that plan...

  • Arena of Fear

    Harlequin Intrigue - 42

    First her vacation was sunny... Then it became a nightmare In Spain to visit her younger sister, Melanie Royce discovered that Cecily was friendly with a group of idealistic Basque students. Then Cecily was kidnapped for a half-million-dollar rans...

  • A Dangerous Sentiment

    Harlequin Super Romance - 231
    Harlequin Super Romance (M&B) - 140

    SHE KNEW TOO MUCH FOR HER OWN GOOD Daphne Farway's fiance, a Secret Service agent, was dead, and she was sure his demise had been no accident. But what did a dyed-in-the-wool New Englander, a writer of cookbooks, know about the Secret Service? ...

  • Tangled Dreams

    Harlequin Super Romance - 255

    THEY LONGED TO LOVE, BUT NEITHER KNEW HOW Financial consultant Margery Lundstrom had perfected a shell of ice-cold reserve so that she wouldn't ever be vulnerable again. And then she met Dr. Warren Yeager. Margery surprised even herself whe...

  • A Perfect Gem

    Harlequin Super Romance - 276

    SHE COULD TACKLE ALMOST ANYTHING -- OR ANYONE Jane Manning loved her bodyguard job at Mercury Courier. New York was exciting, and protecting top-secret documents and valuable goods appealed to her sense of adventure. But accompanying attractive Gr...

  • Fool's Gold

    Harlequin Super Romance - 298

    A CASE OF GOLD FEVER... That's how Cripple Creek residents diagnosed it, and Abby McAlister had it bad. Holding down two full-time jobs to support her twin boys no longer made sense once Abby learned she actually owned a Colorado gold mine! Ty ...

  • Firecloud

    Harlequin Super Romance - 320

    IT ALL STARTED INNOCENTLY ENOUGH Santa Fe photographer Robin Hayle snapped a picture of an Indian pot -- a pot that expert Adam Farwalker claimed was a forgery! Determined to get to the bottom of it, he and Robin suddenly found themselves embroile...



  • Shadow on the Sun

    Harlequin Super Romance - 347

    IT WAS NO VACATION Lucy Hammond's boyfriend had his nerve! Instead of joining her in Cozumel as planned, he'd sent his buddy, hockey pro Jeff Zanicek, in his place. Jeff was just supposed to entertain Lucy until Roy arrived. But then a ...

  • The Touchstone

    OUTCAST LOVE Cassandra Trastamara raced her steed to the adobe ruins by the river. Her heart beat with sudden fury, for within the pueblo's cool walls, Adam Douglas waited for her. Adam, the tawny half-breed boy whose childhood friendship she had ...

  • In from the Cold

    Harlequin Super Romance - 370

    He was more than ready to come in from the cold Matt Cavanaugh's last assignment for the foreign service was his toughest. He had to protect his own father from assassination without blowing his cover. Worse, Evan Cavanaugh was at odds with Matt. ...

  • West of the Sun

    Harlequin Super Romance - 404
    Western Lovers (reissues) - 38
    Western Lovers (Set 2) (reissues) - 38

    She was a mystery he couldn't solve In all the years Ben Tanner had been investigating UFO sightings for the United States Air Force, he'd never come across something he couldn't explain. Then animals started dying on Julie Hayden'...

  • The Northern Light

    Harlequin Super Romance - 439

    Captain Craig Saybolt was a dangerous man He'd spent a year in jail for a crime he didn't commit. But someone had run his Alaskan oil tanker aground. Now heaven help that someone when Craig caught up to him. Marie Vicenza was in it for ...

  • Silver Lady

    Harlequin Super Romance - 482

    Was it safe to trust him? Everyone told her not to go to John Leopardo. But Kamisha Hammill had to tell him that someone was using his luxurious Aspen health club for illegal purposes. The problem was that John -- the eldest son of a notorious ...

  • A Wing and a Prayer

    Harlequin Super Romance - 520

    HOW COULD HE COMPETE WITH A GHOST? Chris Galloway could grow to hate Jim Fleisher...even though the poor guy was dead. Jim had crashed the airplane he'd been flying, and as an air-safety investigator, Chris disliked pilots who got their passen...

  • Paradox

    Harlequin Super Romance - 549
    Women Who Dare - 5

    TRAPPED IN TIME! Emily Jacoby --- Bright, sophisticated and independent. Used to being in control, she's a real woman of the '90s. Will Dutcher --- Arrogant, brash and domineering. On his ranch in the rugged foothills of Colorado, his word is la...

  • Wildfire

    Harlequin Super Romance - 564

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Piper Hilyard had no reason to trust Dan Bourne. He had married her best friend, Diana, and now Diana was dead. When Dan inherited Diana's $3-million Elk River spread and put it up for sale, Piper decided to investigate. H...

  • The Last Buccaneer

    Dreamscape
    Harlequin Super Romance - 578
    Timetwist (reissues)

    HE WAS A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PIRATE! So what was Tess Bonney--a 1990's woman if there ever was one--doing in his world? Sucked through a whirlpool while diving for sunken treasure, Tess was transported back through time to a slave ship on the S...



  • Dancing in the Dark

    Harlequin Super Romance - 596

    IT WAS EVERY MOTHER'S NIGHTMARE! Her son had been kidnapped, and Alexandra St. Clair Costidos was determined to get him back. Her wealthy and powerful ex-husband had hidden Peter away on a well-guarded Greek island, and now her lawyers were te...

  • Laurel & the Lawman

    Class of '78
    Harlequin Super Romance - 614

    WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - It's sixteen years since the CLASS OF '78 graduated from the Berkeley School for Girl:,. Four young women, four close friends, stood on the brink of adulthood and dreamed about the direction their lives would take. None could...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Harlequin Super Romance - 626

    Miguel Rivera had sworn revenge on the creature who had made him less than a man -- had sworn to strike him down. Then he met nurse Karen Freed, who reawakened all the best parts of his latent humanity. But Miguel knew he was putting her at risk -- a...

  • Aspen

    RULED BY WEALTH, FUELED BY PASSION Matt Connelly--A charismatic, scandal-ridden senator who'll do anything to protect his family. Lee Connelly--Matt's gracious wife, who deals with the clan the only way she can--through the numbing effects of a...

  • Apache Springs

    Harlequin Super Romance - 656
    Reunited

    The lawman was captured by another man's wife! Two high-profile guests die under suspicious circumstances at the Zimmermans' resort in Apache Springs, Arizona. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jed Mallory comes home to investigate, only to find that his old fl...

  • The Baby Contract

    9 Months Later - 6
    Harlequin Super Romance - 690

    Pregnant. Broke. Alone. Late one night, Bettie Gay Bryson finds herself sitting in a police station in Tucson, Arizona. Her cowardly ex-boyfriend held up a store and took off, leaving her there to face the law. Leaving her with only the clothes o...

  • Night Whispers

    THE PREY: Anna Dunning is walking a fine line between security and mind-numbing terror. The phone calls are becoming more frequent -- a stranger whispering horrible, obscene promises. She knows he is watching her...stalking her. And he's gett...

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Harlequin Super Romance - 768
    Marry Me, Cowboy (reissues) - 4

    Bless the beasts and the children...especially at Christmas! After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. Th...

  • The Eleventh Hour

    Jack Devlin is a man on death row, convicted of murdering his socialite wife. Eve Marchand is the public defender who believes that the evidence against him is all too-cut-and-dried. When Jack escapes and contacts Eve, she's forced to make a decision...

  • Child of Mine

    Count on a Cop - 3
    Harlequin Super Romance - 782

    Sometimes you have to turn to a cop -- even if he's your ex-husband! Lena Portillo's life shattered into a million pieces when her daughter was kidnapped. She couldn't stand by and do nothing. Hostage negotiator Mike Quinn couldn't stand by, ei...



  • The Ripple Effect

    WAS IT JUSTICE... The celebrity murder trial of Robbie Childress resulted in an acquittal that shocked the nation and devastated the family of the victim, Robbie's wife. Now, in the mountain playground of Aspen, Robbie is shot to death and Lawrence ...

  • Courting Callie

    Bachelor Auction (Mills & Boon) - 2
    Heart of the West - 2

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • Searching for Sarah

    The perfect witness. The perfect murder. Sarah Jamison's invitation to meet with presidential hopeful, Senator Scott Taylor, is a dream come true. It's a chance to put her old life behind her and do something that matters. But instead of a of oppo...

  • The Ranger and the Widow

    Harlequin Super Romance - 897

    Secrets and lies... Jim Mitchell, chief park ranger of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, has his hands full. Not only is his rebellious teenage daughter giving him grief about living in the isolated park, but he's got a gruesome murder in his juris...

  • On Thin Ice

    Ellie Kramer has changed her name and concealed her past in a dogged pursuit of justice. But justice isn't all that's driven her for the last twelve years. She wants payback for every moment her father languished on death row, wrongly convic...

  • Fugitive Mom

    Harlequin Super Romance - 973

    A woman in a bind For four years Grace Bennett has lavished care on her foster son, ever since his mother gave him up. Now his birth mother wants him back, and under the law, she can have him. Grace has two choices -- obey a court order and ha...

  • The Agent

    Harlequin Super Romance - 1054

    Meg Afferton's husband -- a well-known scientist -- disappeared on the very day she planned to tell him their marriage was over...and that she was pregnant. Mark Fielder, the agent in charge of the case, feels Meg's husband may have been abducted ...

  • On the Edge

    When one of her patients dies in a mountain climbing accident, Aspen psychologist Meredith Greene blames Erik Amundsson, the charismatic leader of the doomed expedition. But as she slowly uncovers his secrets, she realizes that she is risking her lif...

  • In the Cold

    As a young girl, Ashley Mann was kidnapped and held for months in an abandoned mine, high in the Colorado Rockies. Now, twenty years later, she must relive her worst nightmare... Because her tormenter has been paroled. And Ashley's fifteen-year-o...

  • Without a Trace

    "He did it again." Four words and suddenly Jane Russo can no longer hide from her duty. A rapist and killer is preying upon young girls in Western ski towns... The FBI needs sketch artist Jane's help -- and sends Agent Ray Vanover to ...



  • After Hours

    The daughter of famous parents, Portia Carr Wells has shunned the spotlight her entire life. But now, trying to continue the work of her late husband -- the former president of the Nature Preservation Society -- she finds herself more and more in the...

  • Husband and Lover

    Twelve years ago, a man was convicted of killing the beautiful wife of an up-and-coming orthopedic surgeon in Aspen, Colorado. HIGH STAKES Now new evidence has emerged, forcing the district attorney to release the man convicted of the crime--and ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lynn Erickson has published 51 books.

Lynn Erickson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Husband and Lover, was published in December 2004.

The first book by Lynn Erickson, This Raging Flower, was published in February 1980.

No. Lynn Erickson does not write books in series.
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