Sandra Brown

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Sandra Brown
  • Bibliography:
    69 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1983
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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About the Author

Sandra Lynn Cox was born on March 12, 1948 in Waco, Texas and raised in Ft. Worth. As the oldest of five daughters, she was a responsible and mature girl, and always chose to read a book rather than play with dolls. She graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in English, and in her job as a contributing feature reporter at the nationally syndicated PM Magazine in Dallas. When the show experienced mass layoffs, however, Sandra found herself out of work. On 17 August 1968, she married Robert Michael Brown, former television anchorman and award-winning documentarian of Dust to Dust, and returned to Ft. Worth. They had two children, Rachel and Ryan. Though she continued in her occasional position as a showroom model in Dallas, her husband encouraged her to try fiction writing while their children were at school. He had just left a career as a news anchor and talk-show host to form his own production company, so why shouldn't she take a creative risk, too?

Within a year Sandra sold her first novel, Love's Encore, under the name Rachel Ryan (taken from the first names of her two children). Soon thereafter, she was producing a succession of books for six different publishers, culling ideas from briefs in USA Today, television shows, and her own active imagination. She wrote two boosk as Laura Jordan and several books for Harlequin under the name Erin St. Claire. Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she has penned well over sixty books. Sandra has over fifty million copies of her books in print, and has achieved some major feats on what is perhaps the most highly regarded bestseller list of all--that of the New York Times. Since 1990, every one of Sandra's novels has appeared on the list. In total, her books have appeared on the prestigious list over thirty times. In 1992 her novel "French Silk" was made into an ABC-TV movie.

Full Series List in Order

Bed & Breakfast

1 - Breakfast in Bed (Nov-1983)
2 - Send No Flowers (Jul-1984)

Coleman Family

1 - Sunset Embrace (Feb-1985)
2 - Another Dawn (Oct-1985)

Mason Sisters

1 - Fanta C (Nov-1987)
2 - Adam's Fall (May-1988)

Mitchell & Associates

1 - Smash Cut (Aug-2009)
2 - Tough Customer (Aug-2010)

Texas! Tylers

1 - Texas! Lucky (Jul-1990)
2 - Texas! Chase (Jan-1991)
3 - Texas! Sage (Jul-1991)

Book List in Order: 69 titles

  • Relentless Desire // Shadows of Yesterday

    Second Chance at Love - 106

    Alone, afraid, beautiful Leigh Bransom was about to deliver her child beside a deserted Texas highway. Gratefully she accepted the help of a handsome, dirt-streaked stranger...and in the excitement of the moment a special feeling sparked between them...

  • Tomorrow's Promise

    Harlequin American Romance - 1
    Harlequin Love Affair - 9

    Would past ghosts destroy the joy of tomorrow's promise? Keely Preston never forgot her husband, even though he was listed as Missing In Action for twelve years, half a world away. Mark was frozen in time for Keely, as the sweet, restrained passio...

  • Heaven's Price

    Loveswept - 1

    His strong callused but gentle hands kneaded the muscles in her legs that had allowed her to dance like a vision before her injury. Blair Simpson had enclosed herself in the magnificent fortress of her dancing, and no man had ever breached the walls...

  • Temptation's Kiss

    Second Chance at Love - 137

    Megan Lambert was shocked into realizing how hard Josh Bennett drove the employees at his ad agency when she lost her husband to the overwhelming pressure. She'd learned of Josh's power over women the night he nearly lured her from marriage with a ki...

  • Breakfast in Bed

    Bed & Breakfast - 1
    Bantam Fanfare
    Loveswept - 22

    For all Sloan Fairchild knew, Hollywood had moved to San Francisco when movie-star-handsome Carter Madison stepped into her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. Though he wrote mysteries rather than movies, Carter cast Sloan as the heroine of SLEEPING MI...

  • Tempest in Eden

    Second Chance at Love - 164

    When uninhibited, flamboyant Shay Morrison accidentally walks in on Ian Douglas as he steps naked from the shower, she is slightly amused, sensually aware, but otherwise unperturbed. He, however, is clearly displeased. Why? Because his profession is ...

  • Send No Flowers

    Bed & Breakfast - 2
    Loveswept - 51

    She usually didn't play the part of damsel in distress...but this ill-fated camping trip was reducing her to roles she'd never expected to encounter. When Pierce Reynolds appeared in the midst of a thunderstorm to offer her and her two small boys din...

  • In a Class by Itself

    Loveswept - 66

    Ten years had passed since Dani Quinn had graduated from high school in the small Texas town, ten years since the night her elopement with Logan Webster had ended in disaster. Now Dani approached her tenth reunion with breathless uncertainty. Logan w...

  • Sunset Embrace

    Coleman Family - 1

    They were two untamed outcasts on a Texas-bound wagon train. Two passionate travelers, united by need, threatened by pasts they could not outrun... Lydia Bryant -- voluptuous and russet-haired, fleeing from a secret shame, vowing that never again ...



  • Thursday's Child

    Loveswept - 79

    Oh, why had she let Ann talk her into this masquerade, Allison thought wildly as her twin's fiance Davis embraced his "bride-to-be." Even two days seemed forever to the shy, serious scientist pretending to be the graceful, charming, sexy ...

  • Another Dawn

    Coleman Family - 2

    Jake Langston wasn't a man to go looking for trouble, though if it found him he'd settle it -- with a gun or a soft threat. But the night beautiful Banner Coleman forced his hand, he was lost... Torn by secrets he'd never shared, Jake ...

  • Riley in the Morning

    Loveswept - 115

    Jon Riley and Brin Cassidy had begun married life as the perfect team - star and producer of the top-rated morning talk show, and wildly in love off-camera. But something had gone wrong, had turned the lovely picture into a bad dream. When Riley sudd...

  • The Rana Look

    Loveswept - 136

    She had a "look," a style that went beyond beauty, a gift that had made Rana Ramsey a modeling legend. But when she began to feel like a precious object, always sought after but not for herself, she ran -- to a rickety boarding house in a small Texas...

  • 22 Indigo Place

    Bantam Fanfare
    Loveswept - 154

    Once James Paden had been the high-school bad boy --too dangerous to flirt with, but too gorgeous to ignore? Now Laura Nolan faced him as a woman, about to lose the home that had been a symbol of the good life in her small town to a man whose desir...

  • Sunny Chandler's Return

    Loveswept - 185

    The whispers began when she entered the ballroom -- and every male eye in the place was caught by the breathtakingly lovely spitfire with the slightly shady reputation. Ty Beaumont knew a heartbreaker when he saw one and also knew that nothing and no...

  • Demon Rumm

    Loveswept - 197

    When Rylan North gave Kirsten Rumm his thigh-melting, mouth-drying, heartstopping smile, she knew she could not refuse him... even if letting the actor share her home for a week would force her to relive the last terrible days before her stunt pilot ...

  • Fanta C

    Mason Sisters - 1
    Bantam Fanfare
    Loveswept - 217

    In the deliciously erotic daydreams she wove for a lark, Elizabeth Manson Burke she'd her inhibitions and let dream lovers fulfill her deepest desires. In her real, everyday life, though, she hadn't been thoroughly, recklessly kissed since her husban...

  • Tidings of Great Joy

    Loveswept - 229

    Ria Lavender hadn't planned on spending a passionate Christmas night in front of a roaring fire with Taylor Mackensie. But somehow the scents of pine tree, wood smoke, and male flesh produced a kind of spontaneous combustion in side her, and mor...

  • Slow Heat in Heaven

    A Hotbed of Forbidden Passion, Betrayals, And Sudden Desire -- Welcome To Heaven... SCHYLER CRANDALI, the adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town. She had run away a heartbroken girl, but came back a woman who knew exactly what she wan...



  • Adam's Fall

    Mason Sisters - 2
    Loveswept - 252

    Lilah Mason could never resist a challenge, but the delightfully flamboyant physical therapist knew that Adam Cavanaugh was trouble with a capital T! Badly injured in a mountain climbing accident, Adam had lost hope of ever walking again, but sham...

  • Hawk O'Toole's Hostage

    Loveswept - 263

    Randy Price fought like a wildcat when the desperate, masked man abducted her, fiercely sweeping her onto his horse and racing away. What did he want with her and her young son, and why was her terror mixed with disturbing passion for this modern-day...

  • Long Time Coming

    Bantam Fanfare
    Loveswept - 300

    Marnie Hibbs recoiled in shock as Law Kincaid crossed her yard, fury in his arctic blue eyes. What was the fair-haired hero of the, space program doing here, and why did she still find him so heart-stoppingly handsome she couldn't breathe? Fo...

  • Best Kept Secrets

    THEY WERE LINKED BY OLD PASSIONS -- AND NEW DESIRES... Alexandra Gaither was a savvy, beautiful attorney who finally had the power to get what she wanted -- justice...

    Twenty-five years before, her mother had died a scandalous death. Alex ...

  • Temperatures Rising

    Loveswept - 336

    Mysterious, elusive Chantal duPont was an enchanting forest nymph in a revealing white gown, beckoning Scout Ritland into the sultry night with promises of pleasure in her breathtaking blue eyes. But when the exquisite island princess pulled a gun an...

  • A Whole New Light

    Bantam Fanfare
    Loveswept - 366

    Cyn McCall desperately wanted something to happen, to shake up her life and turn it around -- but when Worth Lansing tempted her to share a weekend in Acapulco, did she dare go? Her husband Tim had died more than two years before, and Worth, his busi...

  • Mirror Image

    The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasn't just a tragedy to TV reporter Avery Daniels; it was an act of fate that handed her a golden opportunity to further her career. Mistaken for a glamorous, selfish woman named Carole Rutledge, the badly injured Ave...

  • Texas! Lucky

    Texas! Tylers - 1
    Bantam Fanfare

    Lucky Tyler attracted trouble--and women--like a lightning rod. But the night he stepped in to rescue a mysterious redhead in a seedy bar, he got more than he bargained for! The lady excited him, challenged him, drove him wild with desire--then vanis...

  • Texas! Chase

    Texas! Tylers - 2
    Bantam Fanfare

    ALL HE WANTED WAS ENOUGH WHISKEY TO FORGET Ravaged by grief after a car crash took his cherished wife and unborn child, Chase Tyler had abandoned his family business. He'd hit the rodeo circuit and the bars with equal disregard for his life, unwilli...

  • Breath of Scandal

    On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and fast as she could. But she never forg...



  • Texas! Sage

    Texas! Tylers - 3
    Bantam Fanfare

    HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE DESPISED IN A MAN SO WHY COULDN'T SHE STAY OUT OF HIS ARMS? This had to be the worst night of Sage Tyler's life. First her fiance jilts her. Then she has to fly home with Harlan Boyd, the arrogant, drop-dead gorgeous stranger ...

  • French Silk

    UNDERNEATH THE INNOCENCE LAY DESIRE...SECRETS...MYSTERY AND THE SENSUOUS TEMPTATIONS OF FRENCH SILK Claire Laurent was a woman who embodied all of New Orleans' sultry paradoxes: beauty mixed with a mysterious elusiveness, a vibrant zest for living...

  • Where There's Smoke

    No one knows why Lara Mallory opens up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town where Tackett Oil owns everything. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tacket...

  • Charade

    A medical miracle gave TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. It gave her a second chance at life.

    After leaving Hollywood to host a San Antonio TV show spotlighting children with special needs, Cat fights to gain respect as a news...

  • The Witness

    Kendall Deaton courageously risks her own life and that of her unborn child to testify against her ex-husband, a violent white supremacist, and his father. Now, she pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear ge...

  • Exclusive

    Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hi...

  • Fat Tuesday

    It's the day of sin, when sexuality explodes on the streets and no one is who they seem. For a cop turned outlaw, and for a beautiful woman held captive in a loveless marriage, New Orleans's Mardi Gras will offer them their last chance for freedom--a...

  • Unspeakable

    SEE NO EVIL Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who loves violence, a murderer who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he is on his way back to where he began--Blewer County, Texas. HEA...

  • The Alibi

    The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney -- if he wins the case...

  • Standoff

    TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Fort Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been a kidnapped. Immediately, she abandons her holiday plans to chase down w...



  • The Switch

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes another masterful creation, a riveting novel of suspense, revenge, and unpredictable twists and turns.... Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd haven't considered switching places sinc...

  • Envy

    When New York publisher Maris Matherly Reed receives a tantalizing manuscript from someone identified only as P.M.E, its blockbuster potential--and perhaps something else--compels her to meet its author. On an eerie, ruined cotton plantation on a rem...

  • The Crush

    Notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada is on trial and Dr. Rennie Newton is on his jury. Bringing the same dedication she displays as a surgeon to this job, she delivers a verdict of not guilty--and discovers she has a new admirer. Days after Lozada'...

  • Hello, Darkness

    Since moving to Austin to ease the pain of tragic mistakes, Paris Gibson has led a life of virtual isolation, coming alive only at night when she hosts her popular radio show. Then one listener--who identifies himself as "Valentino"--tells Paris that...

  • White Hot

    When her younger brother, Danny, commits suicide, Sayre Lynch breaks her vow never to return to her Louisiana hometown, and gets drawn back into her tyrannical father's web. He and her older brother -- who control the town's sole industry, an iron fo...

  • Chill Factor

    Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon...

  • Ricochet

    When Savannah detective Duncan Hatcher is summoned to an unusual crime scene, he knows discretion is key. Influential Judge Cato Laird's beloved trophy wife, Elise, has fatally shot a burglar. She claims self-defense, but Duncan suspects she's lying,...

  • Play Dirty

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences. After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return ...

  • Smoke Screen

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's newest novel of suspense explodes with corruption, deception, and murder. When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed beside Charleston PD detective Jay Burgess, she remembers noth...

  • Smash Cut

    Mitchell & Associates - 1

    When millionaire Paul Wheeler is murdered, his family retains renowned lawyer Derek Mitchell to defend the victim’s nephew Creighton -- although the police have not charged the young man with the crime. Wheeler’s mistress, Julie Rutledge, who...



  • Rainwater

    Acclaimed bestselling author Sandra Brown celebrates the spirit and determination that kept our country proud even through the Great Depression, in this moving tale of a bygone generation and a strong young widow who must rise above her circumstances...

  • Tough Customer

    Mitchell & Associates - 2

    Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn't let rules get in his way--in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so...

  • Lethal

    In her newest book, Sandra Brown returns to the bayous of Louisiana to deliver a heart-pounding tale of corruption, betrayal, and murder . . . and the stakes couldn't be higher. When Honor Gillette's four-year-old daughter, Emily, informs her that a...

  • No Rest for the Dead

    When a ruthless curator at San Francisco’s McFall Art Museum is murdered, his wife is the primary suspect. She is tried, convicted, and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was ...

  • Low Pressure

    Bellamy Lyston was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day's mo...

  • Where There Is Evil

  • Deadline

    Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source wi...

  • Mean Streak

    From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its head. Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marath...

  • Friction

    A gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction. Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his...

  • Sting

    #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sandra Brown jolts the reader from the first page of this heart-pounding story of corruption, treachery, and ceaseless deception . . . where nothing is what it seems and every truth brought to light ...

  • MatchUp

    This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twenty-two internationally bestselling writers in “a must-read for fans of the thrill...

  • Seeing Red

    #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown delivers nonstop suspense and supercharged sexual tension in a thriller about tainted heroism and vengeance without mercy. Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed t...

  • Tailspin

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a potent fusion of tantalizing suspense and romance, in a thriller about a reckless pilot caught in a race against time. Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying...

  • Honor & . . .

    For the next hour, Joe sat with his back to the wall and his shotgun across his knees, wishing the day had gone in an entirely different direction… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Sandra Brown and C....

  • Outfox

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown combines heart-stopping suspense and forbidden passion in this psychological thriller about an FBI agent's hunt for a ruthless conman turned serial killer. Sure to keep readers on the edge of t...

  • Thick as Thieves

    In this tantalizing thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, a woman, seeking to learn her father's involvement in a twenty-year-old heist that ended in murder, runs afoul of his accomplices. Twenty years ago in the dea...

  • Blind Tiger

    The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capit...

  • Overkill

    A killer walking free. A life hanging in the balance. The ultimate choice. #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a riveting thriller in which a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an ambitious state prosecuto...

  • Out of Nowhere

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a fast-paced, emotional thriller where the lives of a young mother and a high-rolling consultant collide under devastating circumstances -- culminating in a desperate manhunt that will ch...

  • Blood Moon

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a sexy thriller where an unruly detective and an ­­­­ambitious tv show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon -- w...

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Sandra Brown has published 69 books.

Sandra Brown does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Moon, was published in March 2025.

The first book by Sandra Brown, Relentless Desire // Shadows of Yesterday, was published in March 1983.

Yes. Sandra Brown has 5 series.
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