


Meet Caitlin! Our Newest HPL Team Member.If you are new to Lindsey or wanting to take a stroll down memory lane, take a look at some of our favorite Johanna Lindsey novels. Johanna Lindsey, her characters, and their passionate stories will be missed. Her novels were filled with adventure, steamy scenes, and characters that loved with their whole hearts. While most of her novels were set in the Georgian era, she did venture into time travel, Vikings, and westerns. She was an inspiration to many modern-day romance writers including Eloisa James and Julia Quinn.

An extremely private person, Lindsey rarely did public events or had an online social media presence. From there she started writing one to two books a year with her last book, Temptation’s Darling, being published in July 2019. Born in 1952, she wrote her first book, Captive Bride, in 1977 on a whim. Lindsey wrote almost 60 romance novels, including the wildly popular Malory series. By far the most popular among her books are the stories about the Malory-Anderson Family, a Regency England saga.In December 2019, it was announced that Johanna Lindsey, one of the leading romance writers, passed away on Octofrom lung cancer. She has even written a few sci-fi romances.

Johanna's books span the various eras of history, including books set in the Middle Ages, the American "Old West" and the popular Regency England-Scotland. By 2006, with over 58 Million copies of her books have been sold worldwide, with translations appearing in 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the world's most popular authors of historical romance. Johanna Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977 "on a whim", and the book was a success. After her husband's death, Johanna moved to Maine, New England, to stay near her family. The marriage had three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who already have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, and after he passed away in 1964 Johanna and her mother settled there to honor him. The family moved about a great deal when she was young. Johanna Helen Howard was born on Main Germany, where her father, Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S.
