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Jina Bacarr Books in Order

Browse Jina Bacarr books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start with her wartime fiction, romance, and earlier novels.

Last updated: July 10, 2026

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Avenue of the Stars

by Jina Bacarr

1990

This earlier novel, coauthored with Ellis A. Cohen, turns Hollywood into the battleground for a ruthless Japanese billionaire's revenge. Studio politics, scandal, money, and personal vendettas drive a glossy international suspense story.

How to Work for Japanese Boss

by Jina Bacarr

1992

A practical guide to working under Japanese management, especially for Western employees learning unfamiliar rules. Bacarr explains workplace etiquette, cultural expectations, and the everyday nuances that can make or break the job.

How to Succeed in a Japanese Company

by Jina Bacarr

1994

This business guide looks at how Americans can better navigate Japanese corporate culture. It covers etiquette, gift-giving, workplace expectations, saving face, and other practical ways to bridge a difficult cultural gap.

The Japanese Art of Sex

by Jina Bacarr

2004

Part cultural tour and part adult guide, this nonfiction book explores Japanese ideas of sensuality, seduction, and erotic play. Bacarr mixes history, custom, and practical suggestions in a boldly conversational style.

The Blonde Geisha

by Jina Bacarr

2006

In 1892 Japan, young Kathlene Mallory is sent to a teahouse for safety and drawn into the hidden world of the geisha. Beauty, desire, and danger grow together as she prepares for a future that may cost her dearly.

Naughty Paris

by Jina Bacarr

2007

Jilted bride Autumn Maguire heads to Paris alone and answers an artist's ad on a whim. A strange burst of black magic sends her to 1889, where a scandalous painter and a darker, sexier Paris change everything.

Tokyo Rendezvous

by Jina Bacarr

2007

A lonely woman newly arrived in Tokyo accepts a seductive invitation from Steve to explore the city's secret love hotels. The short romance mixes culture shock, fantasy, and a very adult night out.

Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs

by Jina Bacarr

2008

Archaeologist Breezy Malone is pushed into undercover FBI work when a stolen artifact could lead her to the man who framed her for murder. With a mysterious agent on her trail, she has to fight smart and trust carefully.

Cleopatra's Perfume

by Jina Bacarr

2009

As Europe edges toward war in 1939, Lady Eve Marlowe possesses a legendary perfume said to have belonged to Cleopatra. The scent draws her into a decadent, dangerous journey through Cairo, London, Berlin, and the dark desires of the age.

The Blonde Samurai

by Jina Bacarr

2010

In 1873 Japan, Katie O'Roarke escapes a cruel husband and finds shelter with a powerful samurai clan. As rebellion stirs around her, she falls for the honorable Shintaro and discovers a strength she never knew she had.

A Naughty Christmas Carol

by Jina Bacarr

2011

Wall Street trader Nick Radnor has wealth, success, and a badly damaged love life. On Christmas Eve, three seductive female ghosts try to save his soul and reunite him with the woman he never truly got over.

Titanic Rhapsody

by Jina Bacarr

2012

Ava O'Reilly boards the Titanic to escape scandal and finds herself drawn to the dangerous charm of Captain Buck Blackthorn. As the voyage turns disastrous, love, class, and survival collide on the ship of dreams.

A Soldier's Italian Christmas

by Jina Bacarr

2013

In wartime Italy, Captain Mack O'Casey meets Sister Angelina, a young nun guarding a sacred relic from the Nazis. As danger closes in, faith, duty, and desire collide in a romance neither of them can safely afford.

Naked Sushi

by Jina Bacarr

2013

Pepper O'Malley loses her job, then takes a wild chance to confront her ex-boss by posing as a naked sushi model. Corporate secrets and a very hot undercover FBI agent turn her bad day into a sexy, chaotic caper.

Come Fly with Me

by Jina Bacarr

2014

Stranded at Heathrow on New Year's Eve, practical Kacie Bennett is desperate to get home and stop her sister's reckless wedding. A rich, guarded stranger offers help, and the flight becomes the start of a very complicated romance.

Love Me Forever

by Jina Bacarr

2015

During a Civil War reenactment, Liberty Jordan is thrown back to Antietam in 1862 and into the path of Union officer Flynt Stephens. A Confederate spy who looks exactly like her turns love, loyalty, and survival into a dangerous game.

Christmas Once Again / Her Lost Love

by Jina Bacarr

2019

On her way home for Christmas in 1955, Kate Arden is given an impossible second chance and steps back into 1943. If she can change the past, she might save the man she loved and lost to war.

The Resistance Girl

by Jina Bacarr

2020

In 1943 Paris, film star Sylvie Martone is seen with an SS officer, but she is hiding a secret that could cost her life. In 2020, Juliana Chastain follows a photograph into a family history shaped by betrayal and sacrifice.

The Runaway Girl

by Jina Bacarr

2020

Wrongly accused of theft, Ava O'Reilly flees Ireland aboard the Titanic and falls for the charming Captain Buck Blackthorn. As disaster closes in, she must choose between survival, loyalty, and the future she never expected.

The Lost Girl in Paris

by Jina Bacarr

2021

In occupied Paris, Tiena survives by taking a new name and reinventing herself as perfumer Angeline de Cadieux. Decades later, journalist Emma Keane interviews the famous perfumer and uncovers a wartime story of survival, revenge, and buried family secrets.

The Orphans of Berlin

by Jina Bacarr

2022

As Jewish life in 1936 Berlin grows more dangerous, Rachel Landau fights to protect her sisters. In Paris, American debutante Kay Alexander becomes a reluctant spy and helps set a rescue story of courage, family, and hope into motion.

Sisters at War

by Jina Bacarr

2023

When the Nazis tear apart their Paris home in 1940, sisters Justine and Eve Beaufort are driven onto opposite sides of the occupation. One joins the Resistance, while the other is seen beside the enemy in a story of grief and survival.

Sisters of the Resistance

by Jina Bacarr

2024

In 1942 Paris, Eve is risking everything for the Resistance when she discovers her sister appears to be living with an SS officer. Hidden truths, a vulnerable child, and the fight against the Nazis force both women toward impossible choices.

The Stolen Children of War

by Jina Bacarr

2025

In Nazi-occupied Paris, trapeze artist Lia returns to her old circus with two orphaned Jewish children she has sworn to protect. Beneath the bright costumes and big top danger, the performers become a hidden refuge in a hunted city.

Where should I start?

If you want wartime Paris drama: The Resistance GirlThe Lost Girl in ParisSisters at WarSisters of the Resistance
If you want sister-centered World War II stories: Sisters at WarSisters of the ResistanceThe Stolen Children of War
If you want sweeping historical romance: The Runaway GirlChristmas Once Again / Her Lost LoveA Soldier's Italian Christmas
If you want her earlier sensual historicals: The Blonde GeishaNaughty ParisThe Blonde Samurai

Author bio

Jina Bacarr writes historical romance and historical fiction with a strong pull toward places already heavy with memory, occupied Paris, wartime Italy, the Titanic, Civil War battlefields, and old Japan. Before she turned to novels full time, she worked as a screenwriter, journalist, and news reporter. That mix still shows in her fiction. Her books usually move quickly, but they also linger over atmosphere, danger, and the private feelings hidden inside big historical events.

Storytelling started early. At twelve, she wrote a story about a princess who ran away to Paris with her pet turtle Lulu. Bacarr has said she grew up in a big Irish family, listening to wild tales, especially from her grandmother. Her grandmother, with a rosary in hand and a story always ready, helped teach her that voice matters just as much as plot.

She has been chasing that feeling ever since.

Her childhood was restless. Bacarr has said her father worked on the space program, and the family moved often enough that she attended fifteen schools. Books became a steady refuge. So did history, art, and travel, interests that later shaped both her fiction and her nonfiction.

Japan became another lasting thread in her work. She wrote business guides such as How to Work for Japanese Boss and How to Succeed in a Japanese Company, then later published the nonfiction book The Japanese Art of Sex. Her earlier novels also returned to Japan and other richly imagined settings, including The Blonde Geisha, The Blonde Samurai, Naughty Paris, and Cleopatra's Perfume. Readers who enjoy this side of her backlist often like the blend of travel, danger, sensuality, and high-emotion historical settings.

She has also pulled from real life in more direct ways. Bacarr served with U.S. Army Special Services in Livorno, Italy, where she brought coffee, cookies, and a bit of home to soldiers far from home. That human side of war, the private ache behind the public event, runs through books like A Soldier's Italian Christmas, The Resistance Girl, The Lost Girl in Paris, The Orphans of Berlin, and Sisters at War.

Her favorite battleground is often the heart.

What readers tend to find in Bacarr's best known historical novels is a mix of danger and feeling: hidden identities, sisters pulled apart by war, women making impossible choices, and love stories that have to fight for room to breathe. The Resistance Girl and The Lost Girl in Paris both return to occupied France and buried family secrets. The Runaway Girl heads to the Titanic for a sweeping escape story. Love Me Forever takes a different path with Civil War time travel, but it keeps her usual interest in history, longing, and second chances.

These days she lives in Los Angeles and writes full time. She has often spoken about loving dark chocolate truffles, strong coffee, rainy days in museums, Paris, art, and all things Titanic. It fits. Her books are written by someone who likes a little glamour with her history, and a lot of feeling with her adventure.

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