June Faver Books in Order

If you want romantic suspense first: Do or Die Cowboy → Hot Target Cowboy → When to Call a Cowboy
If you want the Garrett family ranch stories: The Best Cowboy Christmas Ever → Forever My Cowboy → Dreaming of a Cowboy Christmas → Risk It All on a Cowboy
If you want holiday romance: Cowboy Christmas Homecoming → The Best Cowboy Christmas Ever → Dreaming of a Cowboy Christmas
If you want a small-town second chance story: Welcome Back to Rambling, TX

June Faver grew up in rural Oklahoma, in a family where stories were told as naturally as supper was served. She has said her grandmother, who raised beef cattle and farmed cotton and grain, was one of the biggest influences on her life. Her grandfather had his own larger-than-life history too, and that mix of hard work, strong women, and good storytelling shows up again and again in her fiction.

Storytelling started early.

Faver went to Catholic schools, and she often credits her second-grade teacher, Sister Anastasia, with nudging her toward writing. Shy as a child, she was encouraged to stay in at recess to sketch scenery across three chalkboards and put on the plays she wrote herself. She got to write, cast, direct, and act, which is a pretty memorable start for a future novelist.

She later took writing classes in college, but for a long time writing had to fit around the rest of life. Faver worked as a teacher and in healthcare, including as a nursing home administrator, and she wrote in the hours she could steal at the end of the day. In interviews, she has said she can write at any time, but night is when her brain really wakes up.

That late-night habit mattered. She entered writing contests to test her work, and the encouragement helped. In 2007, during NaNoWriMo, she tried outlining in detail, got bored, started fresh, and drafted a novel at speed instead. That project eventually became Bad Medicine, one of the early books she published under J.D. Faver, along with The Doctor's Choice.

Texas is more than a backdrop for her.

Her June Faver novels lean into ranch country, small towns, lawmen, teachers, veterans, single parents, and women trying to build safer lives. Do or Die Cowboy kicks off the Dark Horse Cowboys books with Tyler Garrett, a cowboy chasing a music dream who gets pulled into danger when he helps a woman on the run. Hot Target Cowboy and When to Call a Cowboy keep the focus on the Garrett family, mixing romance with real threat, old hurts, and plenty of ranch life.

She also writes warmer, more family-centered stories. The Best Cowboy Christmas Ever, Forever My Cowboy, and the rest of the Garrett Family Saga bring readers back to Langston, Texas, where love stories grow out of grief, homecoming, children, and holiday gatherings. Then Welcome Back to Rambling, Texas shifts into a softer small-town mode, built around old rivalries, community ties, and the messy business of coming home.

Across her books, readers will usually find a plainspoken Texas setting, a close-knit cast, and couples who have to earn trust the hard way. Faver likes a touch of suspense, but she also makes room for dogs, horses, family meals, and the kind of town where everyone knows more than they should. The stories are romantic, but they are just as interested in healing, belonging, and finding your footing again.

Today she lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country, and she has described herself as a foodie and adventurous cook. She loves Texas from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, and that affection runs through the books. You can feel it in the ranches, the weather, the food, and the stubborn people who keep trying to build a life that finally feels like home.