JoAnn Ross

JoAnn Ross



aka
Joann Robb, JoAnn Robbins


When New York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross was seven-years-old, she had no doubt whatsoever that she'd grow up to play center field for the New York Yankees. Writing would be her backup occupation, something she planned to do after retiring from baseball. Those were, in her mind, her only options. While waiting for the Yankees management to call, she wrote her first novella -- a tragic romance about two star-crossed mallard ducks -- for a second grade writing assignment. She's now written ninety-five novels and has been published in twenty-six countries.

Blue Bayou

(The first book in the Callahan Brothers series)


Setting: Blue Bayou, Louisiana

Sensuality: 8

Beautiful Danielle Dupree returns to Blue Bayou with her young son to rebuild her life after a bad marriage ends. With her estranged father soon to be released from prison and her new apartment damaged by fire, she has more than enough problems to deal with. But fate throws Danielle another curve when she learns that her first and only love, Jack Callahan, has also returned to the small Louisiana town. Once known as Bad Jack, Callahan is a wildly successful author and the owner of Beau Soleil, the antebellum mansion that was Danielle's beloved childhood home. A single meeting is enough to convince both of them that the heat that once blazed between them still smolders. But both have personal histories rife with pain and secrets that may tear them apart before they have a second chance at love. And Jack has an old score to settle that threatens to endanger Danielle and her son before exonerating her father.

Filled with a host of terrific secondary characters, Blue Bayou is the first in a trilogy of novels by Ross featuring the Callahan brothers. The Louisiana bayou setting drips with Cajun atmosphere and the heroine is a quintessential southern princess paired with a sexy bad-boy hero. The two generate enough sensual heat between them to make the pages sizzle--don't miss this one. --Lois Faye Dyer

River Road

(The second book in the Callahan Brothers series)


JoAnn Ross, one of the most passionate voices in contemporary romantic fiction, returns to the moss-draped splendor of Blue Bayou in a powerful novel of love and suspense, filled with characters you will never forget.

Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dreams. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way.

Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor. When danger closes in on Julia, Finn realizes that what he feels for her is much more than physical attraction. Now he'll willingly lay his life on the line for the woman who has shown him how beautiful life can be when it's filled with laughter and love.

Magnolia Moon

(The third book in the Callahan Brothers series)


L.A. homicide detective Regan Hart heads for Blue Bayou, Louisiana, to learn the truth about her mysterious family after suddenly discovering that she had been adopted, and finds herself falling for the town's charming mayor, Nate Callahan.