Linda O Johnston Books in Order

Johnston's first novel is a time-travel romance built around longing, destiny, and the pull of a love that reaches beyond ordinary time. It has the emotional earnestness of her early career.

This contemporary Cinderella retelling gives Paige a chance at romance that feels magical but still grounded. Johnston keeps the fairy-tale setup lively, modern, and emotionally direct.

Hollywood executive Mariah thinks she has found the perfect historical film idea, until a visit to a park sends her back to frontier Fort Pitt. There she meets the very real hero Thorn.

A stranger, an isolated setting, and a love story touched by the uncanny drive this early Johnston romance. The mood is intimate, tense, and quietly suspenseful.

After an accident leaves her vulnerable, Polly Black and her newborn land under doctor Reeve Snyder's care. He wants the truth, and he wants a future with her, if danger does not catch up first.

Modern doctor Larryn Maeller meets the ghost of seventeenth-century physician Thomas Northby, then follows love into plague-era London. Their Cavalier King Charles Spaniels help open the way.

Folk singer Jessie Jerone is haunted by an unfinished song about Klondike lawman Jack O'Dair. Her search for the ending sends her into the past, and straight into Jack's arms.

Classified secrets and fast-rising feelings leave little room for caution. This early Johnston romance turns duty, danger, and commitment into the same problem.

A mission to bring people safely back together becomes complicated by danger and unresolved feeling. Johnston keeps both the suspense and the emotional stakes moving.

A child in need sits at the heart of this emotional romantic suspense. Family questions, danger, and the hope of a new beginning all pull the story forward.

A nanny job tied to a high-risk situation is difficult enough before attraction enters the picture. Johnston blends childcare, secrecy, and suspense into a brisk romantic thriller.

A dangerous situation throws a wary heroine and a steady protector together. What starts as a crisis turns into a suspense-driven romance with real emotional pull.

Trouble arrives fast, leaving the people at the center of the story almost no room to breathe. Johnston balances urgency, danger, and a warm romance that has to be earned.

Kendra finds a corpse in a client's apartment and the obvious suspects are a set of illicit ferrets. To protect the innocent, furry and otherwise, she starts digging for the real killer.

After losing her law license, Los Angeles attorney Kendra Ballantyne takes up pet-sitting to pay the bills. Then one of her first clients is murdered, and Kendra has to clear her own name.

When Kendra's law partner is murdered, the only witness is a blue macaw named Gigi. Teaching the bird to say the right thing may be the fastest way to crack the case.

Jeff Hubbard's glamorous ex-wife asks Kendra for help dealing with a stalker, and trouble follows fast. Kendra has to sort out jealousy, danger, and murder before anyone else gets scratched.

An exotic pet case pulls Kendra into another Los Angeles murder investigation. As suspects multiply, her legal instincts and pet-sitter experience both get a real workout.

Kendra's boyfriend disappears, a dog-cloning scheme turns suspicious, and one of the people involved winds up dead. To get answers, Kendra has to chase a case that is stranger than it first looks.

Veterinarian Melanie Harding dismisses local werewolf legends until she treats a dog shot with a silver bullet. Soon she is caught between Major Drew Connell's dangerous secret and a real threat stalking people and animals.

A K-9 cop with Valkyrie-like powers can bring the dying back, and one rescued man may become her biggest problem. This paranormal romance mixes police danger with a very unusual second chance.

Nella joined Alpha Force after a former lover recoiled from her shapeshifter nature. Years later, a mission to recover stolen secrets forces them together again.

Murder and dog rescue collide when Kendra gets pulled into a case that reaches beyond her usual clients. The clues lead her into animal shelter politics and fresh danger close to home.

Kendra is helping run a reality show called Animal Auditions when a nasty judge is strangled with a pig harness. Clearing the suspects means navigating egos, pigs, and a very messy production.

Naturalist Mariah Garvey heads into Alaska expecting beauty and quiet, not explosions and a powerful guide with secrets. Patrick Worley is working undercover for Alpha Force, and desire may be the one thing he cannot control.

This short Alpha Force story pairs a covert mission with a second chance at love. A shapeshifter operative has to trust the last person she expected while danger closes in.

A fight over a building's pet policy turns deadly when an anti-pet board member is found dead in Kendra's friend's apartment. Kendra starts sniffing around before the wrong person takes the blame.

HotRescues administrator Lauren Vancouver helps save beagle puppies from a puppy mill, then one of the abusers turns up dead at her shelter. Suddenly Lauren is the prime suspect.

Dr. Grace Andreas is sent to investigate stolen medical waste that could feed a bioterror plot. The problem is Dr. Simon Parran, her former lover, is involved, and he has secrets that look a lot like her own.

In this Alpha Force novella, hawk shifter Autumn Katers follows a target tied to a sensitive mission. Close surveillance, hidden identities, and an inconvenient attraction turn a quick operation into a risky one.

Lauren discovers that her former mentor has become an animal hoarder, and the rescue effort is only the beginning. When a shelter executive is murdered, Lauren has to clear her friend's name.

Lauren's work with hard-to-place dogs draws her into another murder case at the very moment HotRescues needs her most. Saving vulnerable animals is tough enough without a killer moving nearby.

A legal mess and a growing attraction put two people on the same dangerous path. Johnston keeps the suspense tight while letting the romance build under pressure.

A soldier working undercover finds his mission complicated by the very woman he is supposed to protect. Secrets and attraction make every choice more dangerous.

Beth Jones is determined to expose the pharmaceutical company that destroyed her life. Working undercover with special agent Daniel McManus could save the mission, or make the danger far more personal.

Lauren Vancouver steps into trouble at a shelter more concerned with appearances than animal welfare. When the veterinarian is murdered, she has to find out what was really going on behind the scenes.

Lauren visits a film set to make sure the animal actors are treated safely, then the director is killed after a heated argument. Clearing her friend means solving a Hollywood-flavored mystery with plenty of moving parts.

P.I. Quinn Parran wants into Alpha Force and the new shapeshifting elixir that could change everything. But when his brother disappears and murder follows, Quinn and Sergeant Kristine Norwood are pulled into a messier case.

When a distraught woman leaves her beloved Chihuahua at HotRescues, Lauren Vancouver knows something is wrong. A nearby murder points to dog abuse, fear, and a suspect who badly needs help.

After her fiancé dies soon after walking under a ladder, Rory Chasen heads to Destiny, California, to study superstitions. Instead she ends up running a pet boutique and investigating a murder.

Deputy sheriff Kathlene Baylor is the only one in town taking a suspicious group seriously. When Alpha Force operative Jock Larabey arrives, small-town danger and unexpected chemistry quickly collide.

A flashy ad campaign sends demand for tiny dogs soaring, and Lauren Vancouver scrambles to bring more rescue pups to Los Angeles. Then the transport effort tangles with murder.

Shapeshifter Jason Connell is trying to survive a covert Alpha Force assignment when desire for his superior, Lieutenant Sara McLinder, gets in the way. Then a threat against the team explodes into the open.

Veterinary technician Carrie Kennersly opens a barkery for homemade dog treats, only to have a rival turn up dead with one of her biscuits nearby. She has to prove she is not the killer before the business is ruined.

Sergeant Major Owen Dewirter teams up with newcomer Selena to train a covert Canadian shifter unit while tracking a string of kidnappings. Old prejudice and fierce attraction make the mission even more dangerous.

Rory's new life in Destiny keeps getting interrupted by murder. Running the Lucky Dog Boutique is hard enough without trying to separate real clues from the town's endless rituals and lucky charms.

Hiding under a new identity, Kelly Ladd goes undercover to expose her sister's killer and protect her nephew. Then security expert Alan Correy recognizes her, and the mission gets twice as dangerous.

A missing Labrador, a newcomer from Los Angeles, and a suspected dognapper set Carrie on edge. When the case turns murderous, she has to protect the people she cares about and keep digging.

Rory Chasen is settling into Destiny, California, when a murder shakes the town's carefully managed luck. In a place built on superstitions, figuring out what matters and what is nonsense becomes half the battle.

Carrie Kennersly is reluctant to sell her dog treat recipes to a pet food company, and then one ambitious employee winds up dead. Saving her friends from suspicion means following a trail of business grudges and lies.

Naturalist Maya Everton nearly becomes prey in Washington State until a mysterious wolf saves her. Her rescuer is Alpha Force lieutenant Ryan Blaiddinger, and together they must stop deadly attacks before fear turns into a massacre.

Carrie is trying to keep her barkery running when another murder lands far too close to home. The investigation tests her instincts, her patience, and the loyalties of the people around her.

After her father's murder, Amber Belott is determined to save his K-9 ranch. Hiring former military trainer Evan Colluro seems smart, until danger and attraction make the job much more complicated.

Life at a K-9 ranch should be about training dogs, not dodging threats. Johnston mixes protection duty, buried secrets, and a romance that grows under pressure.

Lieutenant Liam Corland, Alpha Force's newest tech expert, is sent to shut down growing rumors about the team online. Working beside Dr. Rosa Jontay, he faces a threat that is getting darker, and far more personal.

Deputy sheriff Casey Colton expects cattle rustler trouble, not a corpse and a killer on his trail. Ranch hand Melody Hayworth insists on helping, and together they end up squarely in the line of fire.

When a convicted killer is paroled back into Knobcone Heights, Carrie Kennersly worries old violence is about to return. After another death rattles the town, she starts digging into a case that may never have been solved right.

A Colton first responder is pulled into a dangerous case where duty and attraction are impossible to separate. Johnston folds family pressure, suspense, and romance into a quick, high-stakes read.

A woman on the run finds safety at a secret shelter meant for endangered people and abandoned animals. But the refuge comes with questions, and the man helping her may be hiding secrets of his own.

A long-buried Colton secret turns deadly in Grave Gulch. As the truth starts to surface, family loyalty, danger, and a growing romance all become part of the same high-stakes investigation.

At a shelter that protects both rescue animals and people in danger, a K-9 assignment gets personal fast. Trust is hard enough without a threat that refuses to stay outside the gate.

Alexa is assigned to escort vice detective Dane Beaulieu to trial after witness protection. But killers are closing in, and keeping him alive gets harder once feelings enter the job.

Crime scene investigator Patrick Colton tries to keep things professional with his partner, Kyra Patel, even as he falls for her. Then Kyra witnesses a serial killer, and Patrick has to move in to protect her.

Amber Belott wants to save her late father's K-9 ranch, and former military trainer Evan Colluro is the obvious man to help. Their search for answers about the murder raises both the danger and the heat.

K-9 cop Mark Martin goes undercover at a shelter that secretly protects people as well as animals. Falling for Luca and wanting to protect her son only makes the assignment harder.

The Shelter of Secrets is meant to keep the vulnerable safe, but danger follows someone inside. Dogs, secrecy, and a growing romance drive this later series entry.

The special shelter that rescues animals and hides people in danger faces another tense case. Johnston pairs protection work with a romance shaped by fear, trust, and close quarters.