Shirl Henke

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (14 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1986
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Full Series List in Order

American Heiresses

1 - Cheyenne Lady (Oct-2019)
2 - Silver Queen (Jun-2020)
3 - Defiant Debutant (Aug-2021)

American Lords

1 - Yankee Earl (Oct-2003)
2 - Rebel Baron (Apr-2004)
3 - Texas Viscount (Oct-2004)
4 - Shawnee Lord (Sep-2018)

Blackthorne

1 - Love a Rebel...Love a Rogue (Oct-1994)
2 - Wicked Angel (Apr-2001)
3 - Wanton Angel (Mar-2002)

California Heat

1 - Deadly Harvest (Apr-2014)
2 - Dangerous Game (Jun-2014)

Californios

1 - Golden Lady (Sep-1986)
2 - Love Unwilling (Apr-1987)

Cheyenne

1 - Sundancer (Jan-1999)
2 - The Endless Sky (Jan-1998)
3 - Capture the Sun (Feb-1988)

Colorado Couplet

1 - Terms of Love (Oct-1992)
2 - Terms of Surrender (May-1993)

Gone-to-Texas

1 - Cactus Flower (Nov-1988)
2 - Moon Flower (Oct-1989)
3 - Night Flower (May-1990)

House of Dreams

1 - Love Lessons at Midnight (Jul-2010)
2 - Loving Lucifer at Midnight (Dec-2013)
3 - Loving Lies at Midnight (Feb-2014)

Miami Heat

1 - Heartstopper (Jun-2015)

Nymph

1 - The River Nymph (Feb-2008)
2 - Pale Moon Stalker (Nov-2008)
3 - Chosen Woman (Jul-2009)

Santa Fe

1 - Night Wind's Woman (Apr-1991)
2 - White Apache's Woman (Oct-1993)
3 - Deep As the Rivers (Mar-1997)

Torres Family

1 - Paradise and More (Nov-1991)
2 - Return to Paradise (Apr-1992)

Warfields

1 - Falling in Love (Dec-1994)
2 - Love for Sail (Mar-1994)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Golden Lady

    Californios - 1

    THE LIES OF LOVE Lovely, irresistible, Amanda's golden beauty made all men notice her...and desire her. Tragedy had driven her to the elegant bordello where the rich men of San Francisco sought young ladies schooled in pleasure's art. Desper...

  • Love Unwilling

    Californios - 2

    TWO MEN... TWO WOMEN... BOUND BY BLOOD, TORN BY PASSION Cien Robles, Hundred Oaks -- the vast California ranch was Kane land, deeded to their mother's Spanish forefathers, still theirs by virtue of their father's Yankee blood. Now its Fu...

  • Capture the Sun

    Cheyenne - 3

    A SPLENDID, SAVAGE LOVE She was a flame-haired beauty forced to wed a man twice her age. Brought to the wilds of Montana, Carrie belonged to a rich and powerful husband who wanted an heir - and a woman to bed at whim. Yet while her young body serv...

  • Cactus Flower

    Gone-to-Texas - 1

    The Republic of Texas! It was big, rich, and free...and where eighteen-year-old tomboy Charlee McAllister hoped to join her brother on a ranch in San Antonio. Yet when she got there, he was dead, killed in a tragic "accident." Penniless, ...

  • Moon Flower

    Gone-to-Texas - 2

    Lovely, fiery Deborah Manchester was determined to fight for women's equality -- even though her proper Bostonian friends and her fiance scorned her ideas. Then, at their betrothal party, her husband-to-be attacked both her beliefs and her honor. But...

  • Night Flower

    Gone-to-Texas - 3

    There were those in Texas who declared no man with a knife or a gun could defeat Lee Velasquez, a loner as lean and deadly as a panther and feared to be a bloodthirsty scalper and renegade pistolero. There were others who whispered no man, drunk or s...

  • Summer Has No Name

  • Night Wind's Woman

    Santa Fe - 1

    "Theirs will not be an easy path to travel, but they are fated to love." So spoke the Indian medicine woman when Night Wind led his Spanish captive into the remote Apache stronghold. Proud and untamable as a lioness, Orlena vowed she would...

  • Paradise and More

    Torres Family - 1

    AARON: Second in command to Cristobal Colon, he set sail for the Indies seeking adventure in the new world and fleeing persecution in the old. MAGDALENA: Caught between King Fernando's desire and Queen Ysabel's jealousy, she followed the m...



  • Return to Paradise

    Torres Family - 2

    PASSION STORM Dazzlingly handsome aristocratic and cultured Benjamin Torres was everything Miriam wanted in a husband, the perfect mate for the headstrong daughter of the most powerful merchant prince in Marseilles. Yet the moment she set eyes on Be...

  • Terms of Love

    Colorado Couplet - 1

    THE HEIRESS Cassandra Clayton could wield a blacksnake whip as well as any mule skinner and cuss as well as any Denver saloon girl. She could run her father's freighting empire without the help of any man, but there was one thing she couldn'...

  • Billie Jo and the Valentine Crow

    in An Old-Fashioned Valentine

    A mail-order bride from the hills of Missouri wonders how she can ever replace the Virginia blue blood who was her husband's first wife. Only he can convince her he doesn't need a lady to be his valentine, but a real woman....

  • Terms of Surrender

    Colorado Couplet - 2

    THE GAMBLER Devilishly handsome, Rhys Davies owned half of Starlight, Colorado within weeks of riding into town. But there was one "property" he'd give all the rest to possess. THE LADY The glacially beautiful daughter of Starlight&#...

  • White Apache's Woman

    Santa Fe - 2

    An aristocrat by birth, an Apache by training, Red Eagle was a renegade by choice. Running from the past, he had no desire to become entangled with the haughty beauty who hired him to guide her across the treacherous Camino Real to Santa Fe. Elise...

  • Love for Sail

    in A Dream Come True
    Warfields - 2

    The Topaz Man personally introduces in "A Dream Come True" his favorite stories of dreams that really do come true. From a woman thrown back to 1844 New Orleans, to a Western dream vacation, to a female passenger and boat captain's romanc...

  • A Fire in the Blood

    MANHUNTER When half-breed Jess Robbins rode into Cheyenne to chase down a gang of cattle thieves, he was sure of three things: the townsfolk would openly scorn him; the women would secretly want him; and the rustlers would definitely fear him. Wha...

  • Bouquet

    WELCOME TO THE NAPA VALLEY, WHERE ROMANCE IS AS HEADY AS THE BOUQUET OF A FINE OLD WINE, YET WHERE DANGER AND DEATH LURK FOR THOSE WHO LIVE THE SEASONS OF THE VINES... Marti and Riba Beaumont are daughters of the glittering California wine dynast...

  • Love a Rebel...Love a Rogue

    Blackthorne - 1

    THE REBEL -- Quintin Blackthorne dared to despise his father and defy his king, but a mutinous beauty overwhelmed the American patriot with a rapturous desire... THE ROGUE -- Part Indian, part white, and all trouble, Devon Blackthorne would belong...

  • Falling in Love

    in Secrets of the Heart
    Warfields - 1

    Five short stories follow themes of hidden secrets and revealing love and include the works of popular romance authors Jennifer Blake, Madeline Baker, Georgina Gentry, Shirl Henke, and Patricia Rice. ********** e-book edition A Novella Denve...



  • McCrory's Lady

    Courageous and cunning, Maggie Worthington had survived alone in the rugged West, earning her keep in frontier cathouses. Once a proper, Boston-bred lady, she was more than a handful for any gunslinger with an eye for trouble. But the sharp-tongued m...

  • Broken Vows

    In a little Nevada town called Wellsville, the preacher's daughter and the champion boxer had dared to taste the fruits of a desire forbidden to them by society. Then fate had separated them and forever changed their lives. Years later, Rebeka...

  • Bride of Fortune

    SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Nicholas Fortune was a war-weary mercenary who had traveled around the world in search of a home. Raised in a New Orleans bordello, Nick had never belonged to any place or anyone. His only loyalty had been to himself until, amid t...

  • Deep As the Rivers

    Santa Fe - 3

    DEEP AS A FRONTIER SKY With the Mississippi beckoning, Colonel Samuel Shelby is eager for his mission: making peace with the fierce Osage Indians. He is certain the task will prove easier than making peace with his faithless wife. The dangerous wi...

  • The Endless Sky

    Cheyenne - 2

    THE WHITE WOLF In Boston, he is Chase Remington, a bitter outsider whose illustrious family hides secrets far more shockig than his own illegitimacy and half-breed blood. On the High Plains, he becomes the White wolf, a fierce Cheyenne raider standi...

  • Sundancer

    Cheyenne - 1

    HIS NAME WAS CAIN AND EVERYONE IN THE SIERRAS FEARED HIM... With blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart, Cain has spent a life brooding over those who have betrayed him... and the fate that has cursed him as a half-breed. But in the Cheyenn...

  • Surprise Package

    in Unwrapped

    Naughty or Nice? Sometimes the best things don't come in small packages. Sometimes a girl has visions of more than sugarplums in her head. Sometimes we're dreaming of something a lot steamier than a white Christmas. For every woman who has better...

  • Wicked Angel

    Blackthorne - 2

    ENGAGED IN HEAVEN'S WORK A gawky preacher's daughter, Jocelyn Angelica Woodbridge is hardly the type to incite street brawls, much less two in one day. "Holy Hannah," as those of the ton call her, would much rather nurse the sick o...

  • Wanton Angel

    Blackthorne - 3

    A devoted artist, Elizabeth Blackthorne had earned a scandalous reputation with her free-spirited ways. She'd been known to run about unchaperoned and even pose nude. But Englishman Derrick Jamison was uncharted territory, and Beth had no idea ho...

  • Yankee Earl

    American Lords - 1

    Jason Beaumont, brash American privateer, was now Earl of Falconridge, and the Honorable Miss Rachel Fairchild could not have been more horrified. Until she found herself making the brute's acquaintance lying flat on her back in the mud, gazing up at...



  • Rebel Baron

    American Lords - 2

    Wealthy widow Miranda Auburn hides her femininity behind a facade of cold calculation. Her only womanly emotions are reserved for her daughter, whose fondest wish is to marry a peer. Brandon Caruthers hopes to put the lost cause of the Confederacy be...

  • Texas Viscount

    American Lords - 3

    THE BRIT Staid, starchy Sabrina Edgewater, teacher of deportment, first encountered her nemesis in a London dockside brawl that earned him the nickname of "Texas Viscount." Privately, she called him the "Texas Visigoth," never imagining that the lo...

  • Finders Keepers

    Mills & Boon Intimate (Australia) - 703
    Mills & Boon Intrigue - 736
    Silhouette Bombshell - 61

    $10K IS ON THE LINE SO IS HER REPUTATION AND RETRIEVAL SPECIALIST SAMANTHA BALLANGER IS ABOUT TO RISK IT ALL For a retrieval pro like Sam, extracting a deluded cult member and transporting him across the country should be a piece of cake. Ri...

  • Sneak and Rescue

    Mills & Boon Intimate (Australia) - 792
    Mills & Boon Intrigue - 744
    Silhouette Bombshell - 81

    MEN WHERE ALWAYS CHASING HER...WITH GUNS Toting a .38 and a loaded makeup case, retrieval specialist Samantha Ballanger distracted her enemies with disguises and disarmed them with a swift kick. Hired to find a missing teen at a sci-fi fan convent...

  • The River Nymph

    Nymph - 1

    5-Card Stud, St. Louis Style What happens when a beautiful lady gambler faces off against a professional card shark with more aces up sleeve than the Missouri River has snags? A steamboat trades hands, the loser forfeits his clothes, and all hell ...

  • Pale Moon Stalker

    Nymph - 2

    She needs a killer... Sky Brewster swore to her dying husband that she would not kill his murderer. But her heart cries out for justice, and she will not be satisfied until she sees the gunman dead at her feet. To get the job done, she'll leave h...

  • Chosen Woman

    Nymph - 3

    The Cheyenne Seer Since childhood the amber-eyed, red prairie wolf has filled Fawn's dreams. After being educated in the white world, she returns to the Cheyenne to guide them with her medicine dreams. The Red Wolf With his cunning and his Colt,...

  • Love Lessons at Midnight

    House of Dreams - 1

    No one knows the true identity of the mysterious madam who runs London’s most notorious brothel, The House of Dreams. This is the place where a man’s wildest dreams can come true, but even in his most secret fantasies, Robert St. John has not ima...

  • Loving Lucifer at Midnight

    House of Dreams - 2

    A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH TWO MEN…Lucifer is the code name of Sir Blake Hawksworth, Regency England’s most successful spy. Blake’s only failure was accidentally caused by an arrogant French girl. She not only ruined one of his most cunning plots, sh...

  • Loving Lies at Midnight

    House of Dreams - 3

    SON OF A DUKEGeoffrey Vance, the Marquess of Kensington, is the heir to a dukedom. To escape the tyranny of his father and the burden of a duty he dreads, he flees to the battlefields of Europe and the war against Napoleon. But now the war is over an...



  • Deadly Harvest

    California Heat - 1

    A MYSTERIOUS DRIFTERAdam Wade drifts into Napa Valley to work the vines at Chateau Beaumont while trying to escape a troubled past. The darkly handsome field hand feels drawn to Joe Beaumont's elder daughter Marti. He sees beyond her disguise of horn...

  • Dangerous Game

    California Heat - 2

    A CYNICAL SAN FRANCISCO COPInspector Linda Drake is the SFPD's female version of "Dirty Harry." She has faced down gang leaders armed with Saturday night specials and contract killers carrying high-powered rifles. But nothing prepares her for this ca...

  • Heartstopper

    Miami Heat - 1

    A HIGHBROW SOCIETY DOCA successful cardiac surgeon from a socially prominent family, Dr. Corrie Waterstone has seen death in the OR, but never as it occurs in front of her horrified eyes on the causeway into Miami. A man runs in front of her car, the...

  • The Cherokee

    THE HALF-BREEDRoss Chisholm is a loner. No one in Virginia City knows where he came from, only that he is a hired gun who works for a British mining company. His sole friend is a bordello madam. He is well educated yet lives among crude miners and pr...

  • Shawnee Lord

    American Lords - 4

  • A Christmas Melody

    A haunting melody and a warm fire brought them togetherPatrick Madigan feels he has been banished from sunny Nevada to the gray world of 1904 London. After his parents intervened in his disastrous relationship with a saloon girl, they insisted he go...

  • Cheyenne Lady

    American Heiresses - 1

    A RUTHLESS WOMAN OF BUSINESSLorilee Auburn was known around Wyoming Territory as the "Cheyenne Lady", daughter of an English baroness. She owned vast interests in railroads, timbering and the largest bank in Cheyenne. With her friends from England, T...

  • Silver Queen

    American Heiresses - 2

    A CUSSING, CRUDE, BULLWHIP WIELDING FEMALE WHO RUNS A SILVER EMPIREHellion Laura Davies is known in Colorado as the silver queen. She has devoted her life to overseeing the family's silver mining empire. Since girlhood, she has preferred the company ...

  • Defiant Debutant

    American Heiresses - 3

    RUNAWAY HEIRESS' PASSION IS TEACHING SCHOOLBorn in a socially prominent eastern family, Sarah Farmington defies her greedy father by refusing an arranged marriage. Finding the rich men who court her are only shallow fortune hunters, she flees to the ...

  • Defiant Debutante

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Award-Winning Books by Shirl Henke

Golden Lady
1986 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- First Western Romance
Night Wind's Woman
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Indian Historical Romance


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Shirl Henke has published 49 books.

Shirl Henke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Defiant Debutant, was published in August 2021.

The first book by Shirl Henke, Golden Lady, was published in September 1986.

Yes. Shirl Henke has 14 series.
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