Patricia McLinn Books in Order

Set in the world of big-time basketball, this early romance uses sports pressure and ambition to sharpen the emotional stakes. McLinn's journalism background shows on every page.

Restaurant owner Eleanor Thatcher hires Irish musician Cahill McCrea to bring people through the door and winds up fighting their attraction. He wants a future in America, but she doubts he will stay.

Before the vows, old friendships and new attractions start tangling in ways nobody can fully control. It opens the series with warmth, humor, and wedding nerves.

Tris's place in her cousin Paul's wedding party brings old college memories, and old feelings for Michael, rushing back. Friendship and love become impossible to separate.

As another wedding approaches, Grady has to face what commitment really means and who he wants beside him. Friendship, humor, and romance stay tightly linked.

A man convinced family life is not for him finds himself pulled toward exactly that. McLinn turns the clash between fear and desire into a heartfelt contemporary romance.

Rodeo life brings excitement, pressure, and close quarters for a romance that cannot stay simple. McLinn gives the western atmosphere plenty of room to work.

Bodie arrives in Wyoming searching for the son he never knew and lands in the middle of the Weston family. His growing bond with Cambria is complicated by the secret he is hiding.

Jessa once turned Cully away, but his return to Bardville with his teenage nephew makes that harder to keep doing. Their opposites-attract chemistry comes with real emotional risk.

Bardville gives a tough rancher the one woman who can challenge his plans and his defenses. The result is a grounded western romance with real spark.

A woman marked by loss fights to protect her independence, even as love and community begin to change the future she imagined. The story balances grit with tenderness.

Duty, family ties, and deep emotion shape this Wyoming romance at Far Hills Ranch. McLinn builds the story around trust, hard choices, and the pull of home.

A hidden truth and a growing connection put pressure on old wounds at Far Hills Ranch. This is a heartfelt western romance about timing, family, and trust.

Journalist Kendra Jenner shares one unforgettable night with a mysterious guide during a dangerous assignment, then loses him and discovers she is pregnant. Years later he appears at her Wyoming home with a new name.

To save her family's ranch, Matty Brennan asks the man who once broke her heart to marry her in name only. Dave agrees, but pretending not to feel anything is the hard part.

Lawyer Taylor Anne Larsen is determined to reach guarded ranch foreman Cal Ruskoff. A snowstorm, a rescued puppy, and forced closeness make resistance difficult.

A return to Wyoming stirs unfinished business and feelings that never really disappeared. This western romance leans into memory, longing, and the pull of home.

Judi leaves her groom at the altar and heads west to Wyoming, hoping distance will give her room to breathe. Instead, it brings a fresh chance at love and honesty.

A wedding brings an arrival nobody planned for, along with feelings nobody has neatly packed away. This is a warm, emotional small-town romance with plenty of fallout.

Old flames Annette and Steve are pushed together again while helping save a local landmark. Rebuilding trust turns out to be harder than any construction job.

Babies, wedding plans, and everyday complications make this small-town romance both tender and chaotic. Love has to prove it can handle real life.

When the couple nobody expects ends up on the road to marriage, sparks and doubts fly together. Family meddling and emotional honesty drive the romance.

Set against the pressure and spectacle of the Winter Olympics, this sports romance drops readers into fierce competition, ambition, and attraction under a global spotlight.

Summer in Drago brings a romance tangled up with family history and mistaken expectations. Sometimes the right man is not the one everyone assumes.

Darcie and Zeke were best friends before one night changed everything. Years later, a return to Drago, Illinois forces them to face what they were, and what they still might be.

A town project brings Josh and Vanessa Irish back into each other's orbit, even when distance and old assumptions get in the way. This is an autumn romance with hometown stakes.

McLinn's nonfiction guide takes on slippery, sneaky, and often misused words with a writer's eye and a journalist's clarity. It is helpful, funny, and easy to dip into.

A cowboy romance built on stubborn personalities, family pressure, and a spark neither lead can ignore. The western setting keeps the emotional stakes practical as well as heartfelt.

After divorce and career collapse, former national TV reporter Elizabeth Danniher lands at tiny KWMT-TV in Sherman, Wyoming. Her attempt to start over collides with a deputy sheriff's suspicious disappearance.

A rodeo producer dies under the hooves of bucking bulls, and everyone wants it called an accident. Elizabeth and Mike are not convinced.

Ed Currick, a Wyoming rancher, meets ambitious performer Donna Roberts during a Christmas season in Denver. Their holiday romance feels magical, but real life waits on the other side.

When Elizabeth's elderly neighbor kills a man who may have been after valuable Western artifacts, self-defense is only the beginning. Collectors, feuds, and century-old crimes crowd the case.

Far from the life she expected, a woman faces a lonely Washington Christmas that opens the door to unexpected romance. Holiday charm meets real emotional baggage.

After nudging her cousin toward love, Valerie Trimarco finds herself trying to heal a wounded cowboy. What starts as concern soon turns into a deeper and riskier connection.

A modern royal romance full of sudden complications, hidden truths, and strong emotions. McLinn balances fairy-tale setup with grounded relationship stakes.

A missing man in a wheelchair sends Elizabeth, Mike, and Tom into Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. Water rights, ranch politics, and old rivalries make the search far more dangerous than it first appears.

Elizabeth wakes up to a dead body in her bed, and the case only gets messier from there. Personal embarrassment quickly gives way to real danger and a smart Wyoming mystery.

A Wyoming rancher and Army veteran is pulled into royal trouble just as love becomes impossible to ignore. Duty, identity, and family pressure give this romance extra bite.

Questions of home, belonging, and commitment sit at the center of this Wyoming romance. McLinn keeps the emotional stakes close to family, place, and the hope of starting over.

A wedding at the Slash-C Ranch gathers beloved characters, big feelings, and more than one love story. It is part celebration, part family reunion, and all Wyoming.

Elizabeth and the people around her are forced to dig through long-buried history when the past starts threatening the present. In Sherman, old secrets rarely stay quiet.

An outdoor adventure turns risky when attraction and danger start traveling the same current. This romantic suspense tale mixes high stakes with a strong western feel.

Winter in Drago does not cool the emotional weather for long. A small-town romance, family expectations, and lingering hurt keep this final seasonal story moving.

Elizabeth hopes the end of a long Wyoming winter will bring calm, a new place to live, and maybe clarity. Instead, another mystery keeps Sherman and KWMT anything but quiet.

Sheila Mackey boards a transatlantic cruise trying to figure out her next act after years of living behind a secret. Then she finds a dead body on deck.

Prosecutor Maggie Frye is pulled back into the one case she cannot shake when a new killing echoes an old one. The man she once tried to convict is suddenly far too close again.

A fresh start is harder than it looks when danger and desire arrive at the same time. This contemporary romance leans into hard choices, guarded hearts, and what it takes to trust again.

A yoga class turns deadly when Sheila and Clara's substitute instructor is murdered. The police think the killer is long gone, but the women are not buying that explanation.

Sheila's rescue collie, Gracie, finds a body at the dog park and turns a quiet new life into another case. A suspicious deputy and Sheila's own hidden past raise the stakes.

When Jennifer's best friend dies in what looks like a fall at a national park, Elizabeth knows the story is not that simple. The investigation quickly puts one of their own in danger.

A deeply unpopular grocery executive arrives in Haines Tavern and leaves in a body bag. Sheila and Clara were there buying dog treats, and soon they are shopping for a killer.

Sheila and Clara take on a death that most people in town do not even call murder. Proving otherwise means reopening grief, doubt, and a case nobody wanted stirred up.

Christmas in Wyoming brings family warmth, holiday pressure, and a romance shaped by old hopes and fresh choices. It is a cozy, character-driven story with plenty of small-town heart.

A deadly case tied to cattle rustling and old Wyoming grudges sends Elizabeth and her circle chasing truth through ranch country. In Sherman, even old crimes can still draw blood.

A historical re-creation and unsettling rumblings pull Elizabeth and her friends into another Wyoming investigation. As always, the past proves less settled than anyone hoped.

Sheila joins Clara at a 20-year class reunion expecting nostalgia, not murder. Before the weekend ends, one classmate is dead and several others have reason to lie.

A murder in Fairlington reaches straight into Maggie Frye's family history, forcing Detective Bel Belichek to weigh justice against forgiveness. Old wounds open fast when the victim may not be who she seems.

When the egotistical KWMT anchor becomes the prime suspect in a fan's death, Elizabeth Danniher steps into station chaos and a tricky case. Solving it might save, or doom, her least favorite colleague.

Deputy K.D. and lawyer Eric go undercover as a couple on the brink of divorce to investigate a suspicious marriage-save program. The problem is, their fake relationship starts feeling complicatedly real.

Detective Tanner Landis has to protect Allison Northcutt after someone starts shooting at her. Their complicated history and a web of family trauma and police corruption make the case deeply personal.

With KWMT up for sale and Elizabeth's love life finally demanding a choice, she is already stretched thin. Then a young woman asks for help with a strange theft and an older mystery.

Clara drags cemetery-averse Sheila Mackey into a century-old mystery centered on ZigZag Jane, an unidentified murder victim. Local legends, family obsession, and Teague's new detective role make every clue twist.

Elizabeth, Tom, and Tamantha are trying to enjoy their first Christmas as a family when a bizarre wish with Elizabeth's name on it appears at the station. Holiday cheer quickly meets mystery.

A fresh start forces two people to rethink what family, commitment, and home might look like the second time around. This Wyoming romance keeps its focus on trust and community.

Life keeps changing for Elizabeth, but murder still finds Sherman. An off-season dude ranch, buried treasure rivals, and a dead wildlife whisperer send the whole crew chasing answers.

As Sheila weighs telling Teague and Clara the truth about her past, another Kentucky mystery refuses to wait. The case presses hard on secrets she can no longer keep tucked away.

Elizabeth and Tom's wedding is almost here, but Sherman cannot even make it to the ceremony without fatalities. Family celebration and murder investigation collide once again.