Elaine Coffman

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1988
  • Latest Book:
    January 2014
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About the Author

Barbara Elaine Gunter was born on 19 June 1942 in San Diego, California, USA, daughter of Edna Marie Davidson, a homemaker, and William Samuel Gunter, Jr., a naval officer. Since the age of three she lived in Midland, Texas. She graduated from Midland High School an she received adegree in elementary education from North Texas State University. Later, she taught elementary school in Midland, Texas, while working on her Master's Degree and certification for Language and Learning Disabilities at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Elaine currently resides in Austin, Texas, where her son, Chuck, also lives. She has two daughters, Lesley who resides in Raleigh, N.C., and Ashley, who lives in San Diego, California.

She wrote his first novel inspired by a letter her great-great grandmother, Susannah Jane Dowell Shacklett wrote in 1920, telling about her journey from Brandeburg, Kentucky to San Antonio, Texas, and then going with an army escort to El Paso, Texas, where her brother, Ben Dowell, a veteran of the Mexican War, was El Paso's first mayor. Now, she is a *New YorkTimes* bestselling author of eighteen novels, which have been published worldwide and won numerous awards. She also is a member of both The Authors Guild and Mystery Writers of America.

Full Series List in Order

Black Douglas

1 - The Bride of Black Douglas (Nov-2000)
2 - The Return of Black Douglas (Apr-2011)
3 - Lord of the Black Isle (Jun-2012)

Graham-Lenox Family

1 - The Highlander (Nov-2003)
2 - Let Me Be Your Hero (Nov-2004)
3 - By Fire and by Sword (Apr-2006)

Italian Chronicles

1 - The Fifth Daughter (Nov-2001)
2 - The Italian (Nov-2002)

MacKinnion Brothers

1 - Angel in Marble (Feb-1991)
2 - For All the Right Reasons (Oct-1991)
3 - Somewhere Along the Way (Sep-1992)
4 - So This Is Love (Jul-1993)
5 - Heaven Knows (Apr-1994)
6 - When Love Comes Along (Nov-1995)
7 - If You Love Me (Feb-1997)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • My Enemy, My Love

    A WILD SOUTHERN ANGEL She was the daredevil of Shelby County. No fine southern gentleman could tame beautiful Mourning Kathleen Howard until a dangerously handsome stranger rode into her life and took her breath away with a deep, burning kiss that d...

  • If My Love Could Hold You

    SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD LIVE WITHOUT LOVE. Charlotte Butterworth, the red-haired beauty of Two Trees, Texas, had sworn she'd never let a man touch her. Guarding her secret, she kept her word...until the day she interrupted a hanging party in her o...

  • Escape Not My Love

    A GENTLY BRED HELLION With hair as dark as sin and a face and a body that were pure heaven, Jennifer Baxter was a woman who knew her own mind and did as she pleased...until she ran off into dangerous territory south of the border. Suddenly she was t...

  • Angel in Marble

    MacKinnion Brothers - 1

    A FALLEN WOMAN Tibbie Buchanan was a heavenly beauty, yet some still whispered about her sins. Her glorious honey-colored hair wouldn't stay hidden under her bonnet. Her drab dresses couldn't hide her alluring curves. Once she'd loved a ...

  • For All the Right Reasons

    MacKinnion Brothers - 2

    Katherine Simon is a woman of the earth, passionate and strong, she has never stopped loving one man: Alex Mackinnon. But Alex has set his mind on his childhood sweetheart, Katherine's sister, the pretty and pampered Karin, a woman who toys with...

  • Somewhere Along the Way

    MacKinnion Brothers - 3

    SHE WAS LIKE A FLOWER GROWN IN A WALLED GARDEN. A perfect lady, Annabella Stewart had had every rebellious impulse carefully cultivated out of her. That is, until she met Ross Mackinnon, wild and free as the wind, blowing a warm and tempting breeze,...

  • So This Is Love

    MacKinnion Brothers - 4

    He wanted a virgin, but he got a woman with love in her past... Maggie Ramsay was alone, homeless, and widowed with three children -- the man she loved and her life at Glengarry Castle destroyed in one murderous act. Her desperate circumstances ca...

  • Heaven Knows

    MacKinnion Brothers - 5

    A girl's dream becomes a woman's challenge... With her big dreams and flair for the flamboyant, Lizzle Robinson is a feisty child, besotted by the lazy charm of the most eligible bachelor on Nantucket. She had loved him forever. To Travis ...

  • Bride of the Black Scot

    in To Have and to Hold 1994

    En route to Scotland to marry an earl, by order of the English king, Lady Juliette Pemberton is hopelessly smitten with her dark and dashing "barbarian" escort. But a shocking surprise awaits the loveswept bride....



  • A Time for Roses

    Driven apart by the very passion that brought them together, neither of them knew love could be so powerful or so painful.... She gave him love ... and he betrayed her. Then a shocking tragedy left Natasha Simonov shattered. Suffering and loss onl...

  • A Ribbon of Moonlight

    in Midsummer Night's Madness

    Quinn Westcott, Marquess of Waverly, is duty-bound to provide a home for his young ward until she is wed. But his future changes dramatically when he meets a mysterious maiden on a night ashimmer with moondust, mischief and unexpected love....

  • When Love Comes Along

    MacKinnion Brothers - 6

    There is a time to be born, a time to die... Some men are born with a clear destiny. Fletcher Ramsey is such a man. His father murdered, his birthright stolen, he was forced to flee to America with his mother, Maggie Mackinnon. Since boyhood he h...

  • The Bride of Blackness Castle

    in Outlaw Brides

    In order to free her ailing father, the lovely Lady Anne must marry the 'beast' who holds her captive....

  • If You Love Me

    MacKinnion Brothers - 7

    He had done the right thing for the wrong reason... A man driven by despair and an unwillingness to forgive, William Woodville fled his native England, his title, and his duty. In the American wilderness he found the perfect vengeance: a woman. She...

  • Playing with Fire

    in Seeing Fireworks

    During her vacation on a Montana ranch, Susan Klein's birthday fireworks light up more than the night. The resulting bush fire has rancher Wyatt Whittaker burning with temper, but when the flames of anger cool, the city lady and the cowboy start maki...

  • Someone Like You

    For Susannah Dowell, a life of self-imposed spinsterhood and hard work in the parched plains of West Texas cannot erase the pain of a shameful past. Then she meets Reed Garrett, a man also burdened by hurt. Tentatively, two lost souls dare to reach o...

  • Under the Mistletoe

    in Tis the Season

    When widow Holly Noel Winter, along with a nanny, housekeeper, six little girls and one baby boy, moves next door to resident scrooge Dr. Stan Levine, it's time for a war between the sexes. Unless Christmas brings peace on earth and a time for even a...

  • The Bride of Black Douglas

    Black Douglas - 1

    Set against the dramatic backdrop of 1785 Scotland, Elaine Coffman delivers her most breathtaking novel ever. In this unforgettable romance, a marriage that starts off to defy fate, just might end in love .... Lady Meleri Weatherby is desperate to...

  • The Fifth Daughter

    Italian Chronicles - 1

    Born of tragedy and nurtured by scandal, Maresa Fairweather was a fifth daughter, all but abandoned by her widower father. Wild and headstrong, she was fortunate to have Percy Bronwell to keep her from harm's way. Now the childhood friends have grown...



  • The Italian

    Italian Chronicles - 2

    Napoleon has fallen and the Austrian Empire sweeps the continent. Dashing revolutionaries, traitors and spies lurk in every quarter in the turbulent Italy of the 1820s. Italian patriot Angelo Bartolini is a man of many faces: a devoted son and bro...

  • The Highlander

    Graham-Lenox Family - 1

    What's an honorable Scot to do when a beautiful woman washes ashore beneath the family castle? Give her to his brother? When Tavish Graham stumbles upon the naked body of Sophie d'Alembert, he thinks she is dead. But it doesn't take him long to di...

  • Let Me Be Your Hero

    Graham-Lenox Family - 2

    Claire Lennox, Countess of Errick and Mains, is a powerful woman in a man's world. Her slender beauty belies the strong shoulders upon which she carries much responsibility, guarding her clan against greed, betrayal and treachery. Confident and coura...

  • By Fire and by Sword

    Graham-Lenox Family - 3

    HER QUEST FOR ADVENTURE IS EQUALED ONLY BY HER PASSION With her sword for protection, Lady Kenna Lennox of Scotland defies social convention and reopens her family's ancient distillery. This feat of wit and daring captures the attention of the sadis...

  • Alone in the Dark

    When her dying father confesses that he is not her biological father -- and that he has a twin -- Washington, D.C., morning news anchor Ellery O'Brien is desperate for answers. Plagued by a recurring nightmare in which a blood-covered woman who has b...

  • The Return of Black Douglas

    Black Douglas - 2

    He'll help a woman in need, no matter where she came from... Alysandir Mackinnon rules his clan with a fair but iron fist. He has no time for softness or, as he sees it, weakness. But when he encounters a bewitching young beauty who may or may no...

  • Lord of the Black Isle

    Black Douglas - 3

    A Warriors Life... Laird David Murray would give his life to pull his clan through this time of strife and conflict. With enemies both inside and outside his keep, he has never felt so alone and desperate. Until he meets a beautiful healer with un...

  • Fireworks

    Susan’s friends drag her to a Montana guest ranch to celebrate her fortieth anniversary and take her mind off her woes -- her boyfriend has left her for a younger woman and her job is about to dissolve. The birthday fireworks they set off light up ...

Award-Winning Books by Elaine Coffman

Escape Not My Love
1990 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Western Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elaine Coffman has published 27 books.

Elaine Coffman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fireworks, was published in January 2014.

The first book by Elaine Coffman, My Enemy, My Love, was published in October 1988.

Yes. Elaine Coffman has 4 series.
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