Deborah Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1988
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Cherokee Trilogy

1 - Sundance and the Princess (May-1989)
2 - Tempting the Wolf (Jul-1989)
3 - Kat's Tale (Sep-1989)
4 - The Beloved Woman (Apr-1991)

Douglas Kincaid

1 - Legends (Apr-1990)
2 - The Silver Fox and the Red-Hot Dove (Nov-1990)
3 - Heart of the Dragon (Oct-1991)

The MacBrides

1 - The Biscuit Witch (May-2013)
2 - The Pickle Queen (Nov-2013)
2.5 - The Yarn Spinner (Jan-2014)
3 - The Kitchen Charmer (Sep-2017)

Surprise

1 - Hold on Tight (May-1988)
2 - Caught by Surprise (Nov-1988)
3 - Never Let Go (Feb-1989)
4 - Sara's Surprise (Jan-1990)
5 - Honey and Smoke (Jul-1990)

Waterlilies

1 - Alice at Heart (Jan-2002)
2 - Diary of a Radical Mermaid (Jul-2004)

Multi-Author Series List

Mossy Creek

Flying on Fried Wings (May-2000)
Grandpapa's Garden (May-2000)
Nola's Ashes (May-2000)
And a Prosperous New Year (Jun-2001)
Ida Shoots the Sign (Jun-2001)
The Naked Bean (Jun-2001)
Reunion at Mossy Creek (Oct-2002)
Summer in Mossy Creek (Jun-2003)
Blessings of Mossy Creek (Jun-2004)
A Day in Mossy Creek (Mar-2006)
At Home In Mossy Creek (Jul-2007)
Critters of Mossy Creek (Sep-2009)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • Jed's Sweet Revenge

    Loveswept - 245

    When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter--but instead found himself bewitched by a water nymph more beautiful than any wildflower. Thena Sainte-Colbet was an enchanting wildcat, an earth mother w...

  • Hold on Tight

    Surprise - 1
    Loveswept - 255

    Rucker McClure had swilled beer and chased women everywhere south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the sexy, rowdy good ol' boy couldn't resist heading straight for Mt. Pleasant, Alabama, when the town's mayor, ex-Miss Georgia Dinah Sheridan, sent him a ...

  • California Royale

    Loveswept - 278

    Shea Somerton was elegant and glamorous, just like Estate Mendocino, the resort she managed--but behind her classy facade, there was a hint of recklessness in her violet eyes. Duke Araiza had won the estate and grounds in a high-stakes poker game; no...

  • Caught by Surprise

    Surprise - 2
    Loveswept - 290

    Brig McKay was a hell-raiser, a rebel without a cause--and he was Deputy Sheriff Millie Surprise's duty for the next sixty days! No way would the rowdy Aussie get time off for good behavior, she knew by his reputation, but she never expected rugged m...

  • Never Let Go

    Surprise - 3
    Loveswept - 308

    Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room. A year ago his beloved Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for her, never given up hope, until now, when ...

  • Sundance and the Princess

    The Cherokee Trilogy - 1
    Loveswept - 326

    Jeopard Surprise was Robert-Redford gorgeous, a golden-haired outlaw whose enigmatic elegance enthralled Tess Gallatin, made her want to break all the rules--and lose herself in his arms! He'd come aboard her boat pretending to court the blue-eyed Ch...

  • Tempting the Wolf

    The Cherokee Trilogy - 2
    Loveswept - 338

    Erica Gallatin felt her spirit rise to the challenge and fury in James Tall Wolf's eyes. The brilliant renegade Cherokee who'd played pro football was pure threatening masculinity: fierce, dangerous, with a heart-stopping physique -- and utterly irre...

  • Kat's Tale

    The Cherokee Trilogy - 3
    Loveswept - 350

    When Nathan Chatham watched Kat Gallatin take on her rival in the wrestling ring, he admired her talent, heart and sheer raw courage--and then risked his life to rescue her. Even though the feud between their families stretched back to the Civil War,...

  • Hot Touch

    Loveswept - 354

    Rugged vet Paul Belue was part Clark Gable, part Cajun Gypsy, and all mouth-watering male, but when elegant, mysterious Caroline Fitzsimmons arrived to train his pet wolf for a movie, he vowed to drive the cool sorceress from his bayou mansion! She w...



  • Sara's Surprise

    Surprise - 4
    Loveswept - 376

    When Dr. Sara Scarborough saw that Kyle Surprise had breached the security of Moonspell Keep, her castle refuge deep in the Kentucky mountains, she was tormented by memories of a desperate imprisonment -- and of the man who'd nearly given his life to...

  • Legends

    Douglas Kincaid - 1
    Loveswept - 395

    Who was the mysterious goddess in emerald silk who'd crashed his penthouse party, billionaire Douglas Kincaid wondered as he admired the unusual golden-eyed woman. But when the unknown enchantress lured him to the roof and kidnapped him, the brutall...

  • Honey and Smoke

    Surprise - 5
    Loveswept - 411

    The Dashing Ex-Marine... He was tall, brutally handsome, his gun poised as he chased the mysterious figure deeper into the old moonshiner's cave. But when he tackled his prey, Max Templeton was astonished to discover that lying under his hard, mus...

  • The Silver Fox and the Red-Hot Dove

    Douglas Kincaid - 2
    Loveswept - 450

    A Man of Many Mysteries... T. S. Audubon was fascinated by the shy Russian woman who accompanied the famous scientist. And he was filled with a reckless desire to release the fragile lady from her keepers! But when Elena Petrovic made her desperat...

  • The Beloved Woman

    The Cherokee Trilogy - 4

    HER PEOPLE UPROOTED BY BROKEN PROMISES, HER HEART TORN BY CONFLICTING DESIRES... The Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song'...

  • Stranger in Camelot

    Loveswept - 468

    The wickedly handsome hero who appeared without warning on a sultry Florida night had to be a figment of Agnes Hamilton's imagination--or the answer to her dreams! The gallant rider swept her onto his horse and carried her through the storm, behaving...

  • Follow the Sun

    Their heritage brought them home . . . A LEGACY OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE--AND PASSIONTHE PRINCESS . . . AND THE HUNKTESS GALLATIN . . . A savvy and successful diamond broker, the part-Cherokee society girl was also a woman with a mysterious past, full ...

  • Heart of the Dragon

    Douglas Kincaid - 3
    Loveswept - 503

    A Bronzed Barbarian Who Toyed With Danger... Kash Santelli was prepared to frighten a greedy schemer who he believed was telling lies all over Bangkok, but Rebecca Brown wasn't all what he expected! The spirited American woman stuck to her story a...

  • Miracle

    SEBASTIEN DE SAVIN--A brilliant surgeon whose skill and arrogance were a volatile mixture. A dark secret in his past had hardened his heart to love, until a miracle entered his life. AMY MIRACLE--A shy young girl with a summer job at the de Savin ...

  • Blue Willow

    Bantam Fanfare

    There had always been Mackenzies and Colebrooks at Blue Willow, their histories entangled like the graceful branches of the rare willow trees that thrived there. Artemas Colebrook and Lily MacKenzie shared more than that history, their souls bound to...



  • Silk and Stone

    In the wealthy resort town of Pandora, North Carolina, old secrets and heartaches are guarded as closely as rubies cut from the mountain bedrock. It is said that a fine ruby is both silk and stone, light and shadow, fortune and tragedy. And the fines...

  • A Place To Call Home

    Twenty years ago, Claire Maloney was the willful, pampered, tomboyish daughter of the town's most respected family, but that didn't stop her from befriending Roan Sullivan, a fierce, motherless boy who lived in a rusted-out trailer amid junked cars. ...

  • When Venus Fell

    HOME IS WHEREVER THE HEART LEADS.... The ties that bind us--to our families, to our pasts--are at the heart of this deeply engrossing story. Venus Arinelli saw her future as a concert pianist shattered when her father's life ended in disgrace. Now...

  • Flying on Fried Wings

    in Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    Mossy Creek

    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Grandpapa's Garden

    in Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    Mossy Creek

    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Nola's Ashes

    in Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    Mossy Creek

    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • On Bear Mountain

    The story of a New York artist and a modern Southern woman whose fates are about to entwine... Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960s, young U...

  • And a Prosperous New Year

    in Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...

  • Ida Shoots the Sign

    in Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...

  • The Naked Bean

    in Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Welcome to Mossy Creek, where you'll find a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door... You'll meet a mayor who sees breaking the law as her civic duty and a by-the-book police chief trying to live up to his father's l...



  • Alice at Heart

    Waterlilies - 1

    Forget everything you believe about the mysteries of the ocean. Remember everything you love about the mysteries of the heart....

  • The Stone Flower Garden

    Proud and powerful, the Hardigree family was as unyielding as the Carolina marble that had made them rich. Ruled by her grandmother, ten-year-old Darl learned that privilege demanded distance from others. Yet nothing could keep her from Eli Wade, an ...

  • Reunion at Mossy Creek

    in Reunion at Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...

  • Sweet Hush

    She's turned her family's Georgia apple orchards into a booming enterprise, kept hidden the painful truth about her late husband and their marriage, and sent her son, Davis, to Harvard. Nothing, it seems, can faze Hush McGillen. Until Davis speeds ho...

  • Summer in Mossy Creek

    in Summer in Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer...

  • Charming Grace

    Grace Bagshaw Vance's life has always been an extraordinary mix of the tragic and whimsical. Among the wealthy Bagshaws of Dahlonega, Georgia-a mountain town honeycombed with romantic pioneer gold mines but built on solid tradition-Grace, thirty-four...

  • Blessings of Mossy Creek

    in Blessings of Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    The good-hearted citizens of Mossy Creek, Georgia are in a mood to count their blessings. Maybe it's the influence of the new minister in town, who keeps his sense of humor while battling a stern church treasurer. Maybe it's the afterglow of Josie ...

  • Diary of a Radical Mermaid

    Waterlilies - 2

    Glamour, mystery, romance, humor and webbed toes are all back in full fin as rambunctious mer-socialite Juna Lee Poinfax invades the dignified coastal world of the Bonavendier clan. Determined to chronicle Mer life for her on-line journal, Juna Lee i...

  • More Sweet Tea

    Settle back into that comfortable chair and enjoy a second helping of poignant, humorous and nostalgic tales about how things used to be in the legendary South. From vindictive mules and small town marriage rituals that include a pig, to Grandma's st...

  • A Day in Mossy Creek

    in Day in Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    Maybe it's the post-New Year's boredom. Maybe it's the cold, frisky air. Whatever the cause, the citizens of Mossy Creek seem determined to get into trouble on a clear winter day in mid-January. Police Chief Amos Royden and his loyal officers, Mut...



  • The Crossroads Cafe

    A beautiful woman, scarred for life. A tortured man, seeking redemption. Brought together by fate in a small town high in the majestic Appalachian mountains. Live. Love. Believe. Beauty is in the lie of the beholder. Heartbroken and cyni...

  • At Home In Mossy Creek

    in At Home In Mossy Creek
    Mossy Creek

    A novel created by Debra Leigh Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Debra Dixon, and Martha Crockett It's Valentine's Day weekend in Mossy Creek, and Creekites don't need any new romantic dilemmas. The town's still buzzing over Ida and Amos's ...

  • A Gentle Rain

    Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky, she's never fit in with the stogy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents' rainforest preserve in Brazil, she has a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now he...

  • Critters of Mossy Creek

    Mossy Creek

    Book 7 in the beloved Mossy Creek Hometown Series about life in a tiny Georgia mountain village. This time, tales of local pets weave among the usual intrigues, feuds and romances. Ida and Amos are closer than ever to becoming a full-fledged couple; ...

  • The Biscuit Witch

    The MacBrides - 1

    Dear Dr. Firth: I know you are in your cups at this time, drinking, taking pills, and sleeping under trees, but I have some experience rehabilitating lost souls in that regard, and so I am enclosing a box of my biscuits and a cold wrapped container...

  • The Pickle Queen

    The MacBrides - 2

    Pickles are mentioned in the Bible. Cleopatra ate them as a beauty regimen. Shakespeare put them in his plays. Mason designed jars for bottling them. So did Ball. Did Mason and Ball fight over the King of the Pickle Jars title? I don't know. I did kn...

  • The Yarn Spinner

    The MacBrides - 2.5

    She's destined to love Gus MacBride--if she survives her first year in the Crossroads Cove. A thread of hope is all she needs. Damaged, confused, alone. Cathy Deen Mitternich recognizes her old self in the fragile survivor huddled in the sheep ...

  • Where The Foxgloves Bloom

    "Roan and I thought we’d made our peace with the past. We looked forward to the future. Our days were crammed with plans, work, love. In fact, we looked to the future with too much confidence, the way people do when they think they’ve survived th...

  • The Apple Pie Knights

    Military men have a special place in Lucy Parmenter's tortured heart. For the past few months, Army Captain Gus MacBride, stationed in Afghanistan, has transformed her lonely life at a North Carolina refuge for abused women and their children. The te...

  • The Silver Fox

    Her greatest secret might save his life.

    Dr. Kriloff's blond companion was a slender female fashion refugee so horrible looking that pity was Audubon's first reaction. She huddled in Kriloff's shadow, a notepad clutched in her pale hands, her ...



  • The Kitchen Charmer

    The MacBrides - 3

    The battle is on their doorstep and in their souls.

    These old mountains are smart, Lucy. They’re alive. They can be gentle like mamas; oh, sure, they’ll croon and they’ll kiss you and they’ll whisper while you sleep, and you’ll lear...

  • Nutley

    Nutley is a little acorn. A little acorn on a big oak tree. One day, Nutley started to wobble... What was going to happen next? Follow Nutley’s adventure as he meets a friend and then continues on his life journey. Nutley is a story to share and en...

  • Jacob's Journey

    Hi friend! My name is Jacob! What is yours? I am a lot like you. I love to go on adventures with my family, and I really like going to school. All my friends are there.I can't wait to show you what it takes for me to get ready for any adventure. What...

Award-Winning Books by Deborah Smith

Alice at Heart
2002 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Fantasy Novel
A Gentle Rain
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Small Press Romance
A Place To Call Home
1997 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Novel
The Stone Flower Garden
2002 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Romantic Novel outside the Romance Genre


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Deborah Smith has published 52 books.

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The first book by Deborah Smith, Jed's Sweet Revenge, was published in March 1988.

Yes. Deborah Smith has 5 series.
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