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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2006
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Dressed For Death Mystery

1 - Gunfight at Grace Gulch (Mar-2008)
2 - A String of Murders (Mar-2009)
3 - Paint Me A Murder (Mar-2015)

Maple Notch

1 - The Prodigal Patriot (Jul-2010)
2 - Bridge to Love (Dec-2010)
3 - Love's Raid (Jun-2011)
4 - Hidden Dreams (May-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

American State Flower

23 - Colorado Columbine (Jan-2017)

Christmas Traditions

An Apple For Christmas (Jul-2015)

Christmas Mail Order Angels

Jacob's Christmas Dream (Aug-2015)

A Christmas Masquerade

4 - The Christmas Child (Sep-2017)

Love Everlasting (Fairytale Retellings)

4 - Mermaid's Song (Jul-2017)

Love's Sporting Chance

Tobogganing for Two (Feb-2016)

Merry Matchmaker

Matchmaker Mixup (Jun-2016)

A Runaway Bride Novella

3 - Cinderella's Boot (Apr-2017)

Spinster Orphan Train

4 - To Riches Again (Mar-2017)

Teacup Courtships

Infusion of Love (Jan-2016)

Texas Trails

1 - Lone Star Trail (Aug-2011)
4 - A Ranger's Trail (Feb-2012)

Book List in Order: 70 titles



  • Haunted by the orphans she met in Romania, Carrie Randolph returns to work in an orphanage. Soon she finds herself mothering five toddlers full-time and dreaming of adopting one of them when her two-year mission is finished. Steve Romero's wife and s...



  • The feud between the Graces and the Gaynors is still going strong more than a century after its inception in the 1891 Oklahoma land run. Newspaper editor Penn Hardy is murdered during the reenactment of the most famous gunfight in the history of Grac...



  • 50-100 Word Consumer Copy -- Relive the Christmas of 1913 thorough the eyes of young people in love as snow falls in a record-setting blizzard. During Christmas the Christmas of 1913, Colorado is buffeted with snow and four couples find that taken re...



  • Blackmail turns deadly. . . Cici Wilde's fiancé, Audie Howe, calls her with disturbing news. Her store's been broken into and worse, someone murdered the intruder. The victim clutches a string of pearls in one hand and a threatening e-mail in...




  • Spur your faith and love of romance in four intriguing novellas where passion hits the open range. Saddle up with Charlsey Ames as she shakes off the trail dust for a c...



  • Sally Reid's family decides on a dangerous course when the Tories of Maple Notch, Vermont, chase Patriot families from their land. When Josiah Tuttle discovers their secret and offers to help, Sally doesn't know if she can trust him. Aft...



  • Spend Christmas in the Old West with six unconventional women who take on Texas-sized challenges -- and unexpected romance. Bridget falls for a man opposed to her teaching Indian orphans. Polly is trying to hold her family together when her childhood...



  • Calvin cannot believe the challenges he is facing. In the Year of No Summer, repeated plantings of crops are freezing before they can bear fruit. His family and friends may run out of food. And Hiram Bailey is doing everything he can to keep his daug...






  • Having returned from war missing part of one arm, Daniel is convinced no woman would want him. So he keeps his focus on his job as town constable. But even as he searches for the men who are robbing area banks and threatening his community, he cannot...



  • Homeless and jobless, Michelle Morris visits her friend Carrie in Denver to find a new job. She envies Carrie’s married life and wishes she could have a happily-ever-after of her own. What she doesn’t realize is her knight in shining armor is abo...



  • Judson (Jud) Morgan's father died for Texas' freedom during the war for independence. So when the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas (the Verein) attempts to colonize a New Germany in his country, he takes a stand against them....



  • You can experience Christmas during the time period of your choice -- if you rent the entire Barncastle Inn of Vermont for the whole week of Christmas....



  • This is the fourth book in a six-book series about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896. Although a series, each book can be read on its own.In 1875 Buck Morg...



  • Take two. . . Ancient cliff dwellings peppered throughout the Four Corners region make the perfect setting for ambitious filmmaker Rex Pride’s latest project. Now if only he could get the local Navajo extras, the weather, and his leading actress,...



  • Blanche Lamar has inherited a steamboat from a father she's never met. As she struggles to adjust to her new life she finds an unexpected ally in Ike Gallagher. She and Ike both want to find a way to make the steamboat profitable but are at odds on h...



  • The holidays are stamped for love in Christmas, Florida. While keeping her eye open for her next job lead, will nomadic event planner Stella find romance instead? How will one retired major change war widow Randi’s postcard-sending mission? Can ...



  • Following a scandal in the family business, Ty Knight finds himself in Ulysses, Colorado, trying to rebuild his own self-image--and how his family sees him. His convoluted plan for a glorious return begins to unravel, however, as he gets to know the ...



  • New convert Rosie Carson can't understand why her church doesn't do more to help the needy of San Antonio, the way the early church did--and decides to do something about it. Texas Ranger Owen Cooper, home recuperating from a wound, is recruited to i...






  • MARY ANNE IS ON THE RUN. Her father's been murdered, and now the mob's after her, too. Leaving New York City behind is the only way to stay alive. Yet Mary Anne Lamont finds herself stuck in Maple Notch, Vermont, when her car crashes straight into...



  • Determined to sow good deeds into the lives of needy people, the four youngest members of the 1876 Calico, Kansas, sewing circle reap romance. Gladys Polson, designing to aid a crotchety widower, falls for a stranger. Annie Bliss, knitting for soldie...



  • Determined to sow good deeds into the lives of needy people, the four youngest members of the 1876 Calico, Kansas, sewing circle reap romance. Gladys Polson, designing to aid a crotchety widower, falls for a stranger. Annie Bliss, knitting for soldie...



  • Determined to sow good deeds into the lives of needy people, the four youngest members of the 1876 Calico, Kansas, sewing circle reap romance. Gladys Polson, designing to aid a crotchety widower, falls for a stranger. Annie Bliss, knitting for soldie...



  • Determined to sow good deeds into the lives of needy people, the four youngest members of the 1876 Calico, Kansas, sewing circle reap romance. Gladys Polson, designing to aid a crotchety widower, falls for a stranger. Annie Bliss, knitting for soldie...



  • WINNIE TUTTLE DREAMS ABOUT SKATING With hometown champion Frank Sawtelle as her coach, she has a real chance to compete in the world's foremost skating competition. But her siblings want her helping on the farm -- not wasting time on the ice. And...



  • CLARINDA FINCH HATES CHANGE As the newly elected mayor of Maple Notch, the war widow must lead her town through the dark days of World War II. But where she finds comfort in tradition, the town council insists on trying new ways of handling the h...



  • For Felicity Finch, Could It Be Lights…Camera…Love? When family problems and financial woes threaten Felicity's historic bed-and-breakfast, she calls in reality show B & B or Bust. To save her business she'll do whatever it takes, even if it ...



  • Through nine historical romance adventures, readers will journey along with individuals who are ready to stake a claim and plant their dreams on a piece of the great American plains. While fighting land disputes, helping neighbors, and tackling the c...



  • Two years have passed since the last murder rocked Grace Gulch. Life has settled down for the three Wilde sisters. The town is celebrating the opening of the MGM Center for the Arts with a clue-driven scavenger hunt, and Cici expects her first child ...






  • VERITY CLARK DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE The struggling single mom is doing her best to raise her three kids. But when her eldest son is caught skipping school, she needs help. Thankfully, truant officer Garrett Sawtelle is on her side. Soon Verity ...



  • Ruby Nelson trades her job in the laboratory for teaching in a small girls’ school in Vermont. Twin sisters challenge her position -- and their father captivates her imagination. Will the orchard grower graft Ruby onto his heart? ...



  • MY CANDY VALENTINEGilbert Williams sweeps Catrina Jensen off her feet when he arrives in Loveland, Oklahoma, shortly after New Year’s Day 1916. When the reason for his interest in her delicious candies is revealed, her affection turns to fear. Is h...




  • Becky Patterson escapes the stifling life at her father’s parsonage for an exciting life as a mail-order bride. . .only to learn her potential groom is a part-time preacher, Jake Underwood. Her dreams of working alongside Jake in his store stall wh...



  • When Mahala Kent’s tea party honoring her brother’s marriage turns into a brawl over tea, she’s forced out of her wealthy neutrality. A public debate on the subject pushes her even closer to her childhood friend and hoped-for suitor, Jothan Sto...



  • LIES AND DESERTION CHASE BETH FROM HER HOME TOWN. It’s 1919. Everything is changing -- cars are common and airplanes helped win the War to End All Wars. Even the German-Americans of New Brandenburg, Texas, renamed their town Old Glory to prove thei...



  • Laura Evans moves to Plymouth, Nebraska, to take care of her aunt and her paralyzed sister. Dr. Jay Andrews has come to Plymouth to escape his work among those wounded during the Civil War -- only to be faced with a paralyzed patient. Laura and Jay c...



  • Ride onto the open range alongside cowboys and cowgirls who embrace the adventures of living in the Old West from Kansas to New Mexico, Colorado to Texas. Whether rounding up cattle or mustangs, training horses, fending off outlaws, weathering storms...



  • Blanche Lamar has inherited a steamboat from a father she’s never met. As she struggles to adjust to her new life she finds an unexpected ally in Ike Gallagher. She and Ike both want to find a way to make the steamboat profitable but are at odds on...






  • Take a trip to a time when the west was truly wild, where all roads and people crossed the Lone Star State, the proudest of them all. Lawmen and the lawless fought for the upper hand--and love--in these five stories....



  • Pippin Cortland has decided to accept Clint Keller’s invitation to the Homecoming Dance their senior year. She’s said no for the last three years but wants to go at least once -- with Clint.Only Clint invites Pippin’s twin Margil instead. She a...



  • Seven pink envelopes, addressed in Wanda Taylor’s spiky handwriting, represented her legacy to seven people she held dear. Legacy letters -- that’s what they were. A last gift, though some might call it interference. People often sought her advic...




  • Meet nine men and women whose competitive goals take them to state and county fairs between 1889 and 1930. From baking pie to polishing pigs, from sculpting butter to stitching quilts, everyone has something to prove to themselves and their comm...



  • THE RICH MAN AND THE ORPHAN Garnet Harvey graduates from an orphanage and lands a job as a nanny for three motherless girls. Chester Paul, a wealthy businessman, lost his wife in childbirth. After a long period of mourning, he hires a nanny to take c...




  • The nineteenth century was rapidly drawing to a close and the dawn of the modern era approached as the 1890s counted down to the turn of the century. International tensions rose as quickly as new inventions and an assassination in the Balkans catapul...




  • A year ago, life was full of promise.Elyssa Philbin partied with the rest of New York’s elite, not worrying about anything beyond her newest dress.Ian and Bridge McDonnell, although part of a poverty-stricken family, lived secure in their parentsâ€...








  • Texas Rangers didn't just go after the lawless, they also stole hearts. In this collection of five historical romances, these hunky heroes find themselves in the toughest assignments ever...corralling romance.ANGEL IN DISGUISECan Rosie and Owen do th...



  • Cynthia Ellen Cooper -- known affectionately as “Cinderella” -- left her wedding boot in the dust when she ran away from her wedding to work on a sheep station in Australia. Four years later, she’s back home -- and so is her ex-fiancĂ©, now a D...



  • "Nine historical romances revive the brief era of the Pony Express. Join the race from Missouri, across the plains and mountains to California and back again as brave Pony Express riders and their supporters along the route work to get mail ac...



  • Climb into adventure in the Green Mountain State where party politics, parental pressure, and personal misperceptions challenge three couples. Sally Reid and her family of Patriots are in hiding. Can she trust Josiah Tuttle, a man whose father is loy...



  • Climb into adventure in the Green Mountain State where the descendants of the Tuttle family continue make their home in Maple Notch in contemporary Vermont. Felicity Finch is trying to save the family home, the Bailey Mansion, by running a bed & brea...



  • Climb into adventure in the Green Mountain State where the Twentieth Century creates a whole set of new problems for the Tuttle family. Mary Anne Lamont is on the run from the mob when her car crashes into Wallace Tuttle’s truck a short distance fr...




  • Becky Patterson escapes the stifling life at her father’s parsonage for an exciting life as a mail-order bride. . .only to learn her potential groom is a part-time preacher, Jake Underwood. Her dreams of working alongside Jake in his store stall wh...




  • Seven women seek husbands to help them rebuild a Kansas town. Meet seven of Turtle Springs, Kansas’, finest women who are determined to revive their small town after the War Between the States took most of its men ... and didn’t return them. T...




  • At last, the much anticipated 50th book by Darlene Franklin! Noble Prescott is drawn to the scene of a shipwreck by a sweet song sung in a language he didn’t understand. The songstress is barely alive, holding onto a piece of the ship’s railing. ...





  • A year ago scandal ruined the annual Nanepaushat Cotton Mill Christmas Masquerade -- the owner’s son tarried with a mill worker and she left, shamed and pregnant. Tragedy strikes this year when the same son dies in a tragic accident. Can supervisor...



  • A new novella from Amazon best-selling and award-winning author! Krystal Black had helped foreign dignitaries before but never was tempted to join their ranks. Prince Johann "John" van Koppelberg came to the Colorado Rockies expecting a vacation. He ...



  • Journey along as nine historical women are about to make their escape from some of life’s greatest challenges. Can their captive hearts be freed to dream, to dare, to love? Pennsylvania, 1770-1775 Leaving Scotland for a short indenture with he...



  • It’s a wild ride through Texas history, but can the lawful, the lawless -- and the lonely -- find love?
    Enjoy the rich history of Texas penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authors -- including DiAnn M...



  • Six Mysteries Are Brewing in Small-Town Kansas The coffee shop on the corner of First and Main in Oak Grove, Kansas, seems to attract a series of mysterious events. Or perhaps it is the six women who frequent the shop for book club who are the mag...



  • A tea shoppe along the coast of Maine is connected to a year’s worth of mysterious deaths. Starting one winter day, Georgina finds the mayor poisoned by a plate of petit fours. That spring, Evie’s favorite customer and recipe tester is killed. W...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Darlene Franklin has published 70 books.

Darlene Franklin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Tea Shoppe Mysteries, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Darlene Franklin, Romanian Rhapsody, was published in September 2006.

Yes. Darlene Franklin has 2 series.