Barbara Samuel Books in Order

An unexpected meeting throws two strangers together and turns a chance encounter into something neither can easily walk away from. This early romance leans on instant chemistry, emotional risk, and the pull of fate.

Lia Waters is captivated by her charismatic, shadowed employer, Samuel Bashir. The pull between them is strong, but the secrets surrounding him make love feel less like salvation and more like a heartbreak waiting to happen.

Man-shy Maggie Henderson slowly learns to trust her intense, tender neighbor Joel Summer. But Joel is hiding truths that grow harder to keep as their springtime romance deepens into something life changing.

Single mother Esther Lucas can fix almost anything, except the grief inside widower Alexander Stone. As her warmth draws him back toward family and laughter, she risks needing someone to mend her own heart.

A flood traps Celia Moon in her inherited East Texas farmhouse with a troubled drifter who washes onto her porch. As the storm rises, so does a fierce attraction neither of them expected to survive.

Frederica der Esslingen flees a forced marriage and finds refuge with a healer, where she meets a man utterly forbidden to her. In a divided world of family duty and faith, love becomes both solace and risk.

Anya of Winterborne rescues a fallen knight from the winter forest and nurses him back to strength. Christian's hidden past follows close behind, along with a love that could bring danger straight to her door.

On the run and hiding under a false name, Mattie O'Neal thinks she has finally disappeared. Then Zeke Shephard walks into her life, and when danger catches up, he becomes her fiercest protector and temptation.

Eight years after leaving brokenhearted, Jessie Callahan returns with the daughter Luke Bernali never knew existed. Luke is ready to make things right, but second chances are fragile when the past still hurts this much.

Madeleine is determined to save her ancestral home without being distracted by the notorious Lucien Harrow. But Lucien's charm hides a private unraveling, and helping him may cost Madeleine more than she planned.

After prison, Tanya Bishop is given one last chance to reconnect with the son she lost. Working at Ramon's ranch for troubled boys, she begins to imagine forgiveness, family, and love after years of damage.

Fleeing a brutal marriage, Tess Fallon heads west and finds danger, hard country, and unexpected rescue on the Santa Fe trail. Joaquin Morales offers passion and safety, but the past is still riding close behind.

Winona Snow arrives in the New Mexico wilderness to claim an inheritance and protect her younger sister. The man already living on the land, Daniel Lynch, has plans of his own, until shared walls begin changing everything.

Returning from exile to Woodell Castle, Lady Elizabeth hopes only for peace and order. Instead she finds a mysterious knight who has protected her lands and awakened questions, and feelings, she cannot easily ignore.

Tyler Forrest wants a quiet life with his son, not another chance at heartbreak. Then Anna Passanante reappears, pregnant after one unforgettable weekend, and determined to prove his guarded heart can still open.

Lance Forrest comes back to Red Creek and discovers the son he never knew he had. As Tamara Flynn watches the man she once wrote off become part of their small family, her rules about love begin to shift.

Jake Forrest returns from war carrying memories he would rather outrun. In Red Creek, doctor Ramona Hardy offers shelter, honesty, and the kind of love that might help him stop fighting the past.

A mysterious guest checks into Claire Franklin's bed-and-breakfast just before Christmas and stirs more than holiday longing. Zane Hunter is trying to keep her alive, but the danger around him may swallow them both.

Sarah Greenwood returns to Taos for her ailing father and comes face to face with Elias Santiago, the man she never stopped loving. Their reunion is shadowed by an old family feud that still has teeth.

Widow Molly Sheffield agrees to marry Alejandro Sosa so he can get a green card. What begins as kindness turns into something deeper, and both must decide whether their temporary arrangement can become a real marriage.

After scandal wrecks her future, Lady Adriana St. Ives enters a difficult marriage with Tynan Spenser, an Irish earl with a dangerous reputation. His plan to win her one kiss at a time may undo them both.

Teacher Marissa and Robert Martinez are both scarred by difficult childhoods, and neither is eager to trust love. A troubled pregnant teen and a growing bond push them toward the future they have both been avoiding.

Biographer Ellie Connor heads to East Texas to research a vanished blues singer and the parents she never knew. There she meets Blue Reynard, a man who may help her solve both mysteries if she can stop running.

Widowed Lady Cassandra St. Ives travels to Italy to meet the man behind her intimate letters. Count Basilio feels like a soulmate, but an old betrothal and family duty stand between desire and any lasting happiness.

FBI agent Laurie Lewis is asked to impersonate a princess when a terrorist threat turns deadly. The mission puts her beside a wary protector and inside a world where danger, duty, and attraction keep colliding.

Luna McGraw is trying to rebuild after addiction cost her marriage and her daughter. Back in Taos, with her child returned and Thomas Coyote offering gentleness instead of chaos, she risks believing in a steadier life.

After decades away, Jewel Sabatino returns to Pueblo with her teenage son to claim an unexpected inheritance. Coming home means facing her fierce family, an unforgiving father, and the love she left behind.

India Redding takes a road trip to Las Vegas with her dazzling ex-showgirl mother, Eldora, to search for India's missing twin. Route 66 brings family secrets, old memories, and a new understanding of both women.

When Trudy Marino discovers her husband's affair, her careful life blows open. Around her, three other women on the same street face loss, reinvention, and the risky hope that life can still surprise them.

NSA code breaker Kim Valenti uncovers a terrorist plot, only to learn the real target is far worse than it first appears. Racing an airport bomb clock, she and an FBI bomb expert have no time to waste.

Juliet Rousseau comes to Colorado to help her sister through divorce and lands in the middle of a murder case. Tribal cop Joshua Mad Calf may be the one man she can trust, if danger does not get there first.

Blindsided by divorce and starting over in a shabby apartment complex, Nicole Bridges has little money and even less direction. New friends, a new love, and her long-buried passion for perfume slowly help her rebuild.

Gemologist Sylvie Montague gets tangled in a dangerous jewel mystery when a baggage mix-up puts a legendary diamond in her hands. Between her unreliable ex, Scottish criminals, and a seductive stranger, survival is not guaranteed.

Desi Rousseau is out on bail, accused of killing her husband, and hiding at her wolf sanctuary in the Colorado mountains. Tamati Neville believes in her innocence, but trust is harder to win than a verdict.

With her sister's murder trial approaching, Miranda Rousseau hires private investigator James Marquez to uncover the truth. Their chemistry is immediate, but so are the secrets that could wreck the case and any future together.

Chef Elena Alvarez heads to Aspen to rescue a struggling restaurant and outrun the tragedy that still haunts her. What she finds is a new kitchen, a complicated man, and a real chance at happiness.

After a freak accident, restless travel guide Tessa Harlow returns to the New Mexico place tied to her earliest memories. There she finds a widowed rescuer, a family mystery, and the home she never thought she wanted.

Baker Ramona Gallagher is barely holding her business and family together when her daughter's stepdaughter lands on her doorstep. As they clash and slowly bond, old wounds, fresh love, and the smell of bread fill the kitchen.

A companion for writers built around joy, gratitude, and creative renewal. Samuel offers short essays and reflections that celebrate the work itself, the body that does it, and the mentors who help sustain it.

An upbeat, encouraging book for writers who want to protect their creative life for the long haul. Through stories, exercises, and reflections, Samuel writes about craft, stamina, and keeping the well filled.

A minister shaken by tragedy and her glamorous sister, ruined by her husband's crimes, find refuge in Pueblo. A tough neighborhood garden slowly helps both women rebuild faith, purpose, and their broken hearts.

In 1946 Texas, Angel and Isaiah reconnect after years of wartime letters and childhood longing. Their love is deep and dangerous, because she is white, he is Black, and their town is ready to punish both.

Dog trainer Jessie is the only person Marcus Stone trusts to help Thor, a military dog traumatized by war. Working together means facing an old heartbreak and the question of whether damaged loyalty can be healed.

When Rose Lennox arrives in a Scottish village to help identify the remains of two long-dead lovers, she is drawn to builder Robert Ayer. The deeper the mystery goes, the more their connection feels hauntingly old.

An Oregon farm owner invites three online foodie friends to visit, hoping one of them can inherit her life's work. The gathering becomes a turning point for four women hungry for love, purpose, and a fresh start.

A practical craft guide for writers who want to build compelling love stories. Barbara Samuel covers romance structure, character, conflict, sensuality, subgenres, and the work of reaching readers without losing heart.

A collection of three romantic faerie novellas, *Earthly Magic*, *The Love Talker*, and *The Harper's Daughter*. Expect curses, prophecy, music, and mortal women pulled into dangerous, otherworldly love.

After her mother's death, food editor Olivia Shaw inherits a crumbling English estate and a title she never knew existed. At Rosemere Priory, grief gives way to family mystery, village charm, and long-hidden secrets.

An ER doctor sees her sister, dead for fifteen years, in TV footage from a New Zealand disaster. Her search for the truth forces both women to confront buried trauma, family lies, and the cost of starting over.

Zoe Fairchild returns to the Devon village she fled years ago when a family friend vanishes. Back among four generations of women, old betrayals, a dangerous mystery, and an old love refuse to stay buried.

Gloria Rose thinks she can outrun an old art-forgery scandal until her two nieces spiral into crises of their own. As the FBI closes in, three women from two generations must face the past together.

After a celebrity chef dies, four women tied to him, ex-wife, daughter, girlfriend, and stepdaughter, are thrown together on the California coast. Grief, secrets, and questions about his death force them to rethink what family means.

Phoebe and Suze were once closer than sisters on the Oregon coast, until old secrets split them apart. Decades later, a violent attack and a homecoming force them to decide whether friendship can be rebuilt.

Artist Tillie Morrisey is shaken by a strange painting and a document that suggests her life has been built on lies. Her search leads to England, buried memory, and a man who feels familiar in unsettling ways.

A recently divorced woman becomes travel companion to a former Olympic athlete determined to finish her late mother's final food journey. From London to India, letters, grief, and friendship guide them toward healing.